Research Article

Fatigue Assessment of Monopile Supported Offshore Wind Turbine under Non-Gaussian Wind Field

Table 1

Parameters of an offshore wind turbine.

PropertiesNREL 5 MW OWT

Rating5 MW
Rotor, hub diameter (m)126, 3
Hub height (m)90
Cut-in, cut-out wind speed (m/s)3, 25
Rated wind speed (m/s)11.4
Cut-in, rated rotor speed (rpm)6.9, 12.1
Rotor mass (kg)110000
Nacelle mass (kg)240000
Tower mass (kg)347460
Water depth (m)20
Tower height (m)90
Monopile length (m)60
Top of tower diameter and thickness (m)3.87, 0.019
Bottom of tower diameter and thickness (m)6, 0.027
Monopile diameter and thickness (m)6, 0.06
Density of tower and monopole (kg/m3)8500
Yang’s modulus of tower and monopile (GPa)210