Plasticity detection and quantification in monopile support structures due to axial impact loading
P.C. Meijers (TU Delft - Offshore Engineering)
A Tsouvalas (TU Delft - Offshore Engineering)
Andrei Metrikine (TU Delft - Engineering Structures, TU Delft - Offshore Engineering)
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Abstract
Recent developments in the construction of offshore wind turbines have created the need for a method to detect whether a monopile foundation is plastically deformed during the installation procedure. Since measurements at the pile head are difficult to perform, a method based on measurements at a certain distance below the pile head is proposed in this work for quantification of the amount of plasticity. By considering a onedimensional rod model with an elastic-perfectly plastic constitutive relation, it is shown that the occurrence of plastic deformation caused by an impact load can be detected from these measurements. Furthermore, this plastic deformation can be quantified by the same measurement with the help of an energy balance. The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated via a numerical example.
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