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Human exposure to motion during maintenance on floating offshore wind turbines

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dc.creator Scheu, Matti
dc.creator Matha, Denis
dc.creator Schwarzkopf, Marie-Antoinette
dc.creator Kolios, Athanasios
dc.date 2018-08-31T13:58:33Z
dc.date 2018-08-31T13:58:33Z
dc.date 2018-07-25
dc.date.accessioned 2022-05-25T16:38:11Z
dc.date.available 2022-05-25T16:38:11Z
dc.identifier Matti Scheu, Denis Matha, Marie-Antoinette Schwarzkopf and Athanasios Kolios. Human exposure to motion during maintenance on floating offshore wind turbines. Ocean Engineering, Volume 165, 1 October 2018, Pages 293-306
dc.identifier 0029-8018
dc.identifier https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2018.07.016
dc.identifier http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/13449
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/182306
dc.description Working on floating offshore wind turbines is a complex operation. An important factor is the influence that the structural motion has on humans located on the asset in a harsh environment during maintenance activities and its implications towards personal safety, human comfort and the ability to work. For the research presented in this paper, extensive simulation studies were conducted to assess if and to what extend working on floating offshore wind turbines may be compromised due to extensive structural motion. Results show that weather windows for maintenance activities are reduced by up to 5% when adhering to guidelines suggesting limiting threshold values for acceleration exposure. The corresponding potential financial losses materializing due to longer turbine unavailability after a fault are significant. All the presented and discussed results underline the importance of considering motion criteria in the design phase of a new project - a factor which is not included in design procedures today.
dc.language en
dc.publisher Elsevier
dc.rights Attribution 4.0 International
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject Floating offshore wind energy
dc.subject O&M
dc.subject Workability
dc.subject Maintainability
dc.subject Human exposure to motion
dc.subject Whole-body vibration
dc.title Human exposure to motion during maintenance on floating offshore wind turbines
dc.type Article


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