Fatigue design and analysis of offshore and energy wind structures

Content

• Fatigue testing and assessment of test data
• Basic fatigue design approaches, S/N curves and detail classifications
• Stress concentration factors
• Probability of fatigue failure
• Fabrication issues, welding and tolerances
• Bolted connections
• Long term stress range distributions applicable for waves, wind etc.
• Fatigue analysis of jacket structures
• Fatigue analysis of floating structures
• Fatigue analysis of offshore wind turbine structures
• Examples

Lecturers

Arne Fjeldstad, Thomas Johansen, Frode Bratbakk and others from DNV.