Fatigue Analysis of the Column-Pontoon Connection in a Semi-Submersible Floating Wind Turbine

Motivated by the exciting potential of the new floating offshore wind concepts, this thesis aims to analyze the fatigue behavior of a novel semi-submersible floating offshore wind turbine, developed at CeSOS, NTNU, which consists of four cylindrical columns with one central column supporting the 5 MW NREL wind turbine. The geometry was proposed...