Mooring line fatigue damage evaluation for floating marine energy converters: Field measurements and prediction

Philipp R. Thies, Lars Johanning, Violette Harnois, Helen C.M. Smith and David N. Parish

Renewable Energy, 2014, vol. 63, issue C, 133-144

Abstract: The vision of large-scale commercial arrays of floating marine energy converters (MECs) necessitates the robust, yet cost-effective engineering of devices. Given the continuous environmental loading, fatigue has been identified as one of the key engineering challenges. In particular the mooring system which warrants the station-keeping of such devices is subject to highly cyclic, non-linear load conditions, mainly induced by the incident waves.

Keywords: Wave energy converter; Reliability; Dynamic load; Load measurements; Field test; Fatigue prediction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2013.08.050

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