Fatigue damage from dynamic ice action - The FATICE project
Knut V. Høyland (Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU))
Torodd Skjerve Nord (Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU))
Joshua Turner (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU))
Vegard Hornnes (Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU))
Ersegun Deniz Gedikli (Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU))
Morten Bjerkås (DIMB Consult AS)
H. Hendrikse (TU Delft - Offshore Engineering)
T.C. Hammer (Siemens Gamesa, TU Delft - Offshore Engineering)
Gesa Ziemer (HSVA)
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Abstract
In the FATICE project we have addressed the fatigue damage on fixed offshore structures exposed to drifting ice. This is an important challenge in the development of energy production from offshore wind in the Baltic and involves at least five element: a) define ice statistics, b) predict the structural response (ice-structure interaction simulations), c) estimate the fatigue damage and d) carry out scale-model tests. We have used the Copernicus database and simple analytical equations to define the large-scale ice statistics and studied down-scaling to structural scale by comparing with ice load data on the Norströmsgrund lighthouse (LOLEIF and STRICE data). The VANILLA model allows for ice-structure interaction simulations and has been validated against the full-scale LOLEIF and STRICE data and against the model-scale ice in HSVA. The fully coupled and the traditional methods are compared. In the fatigue estimations studies the assumption of linear damage accumulation is challenged and load combinations from wave, wind and ice studied by assessing simulated time-series of the different loads. The main results is that sea ice cause the higher loads than wind and waves do , but the cumulative frequency of ice loads is much smaller than for wind and waves. The traditional model-scale ice tends to be too soft and/or too viscous so that a realistic breaking pattern combined with realistic force-time series is not been obtained for large aspect ratios. HVA has developed a crushing model ice (ICMI) in which the ice crystals are larger and the texture more uniform.