Abstract
Offshore wind power is becoming attractive in the wind-power field. With the rapid development of wind-power technology, high-power wind turbines have been implemented in practice. However, the increase in the length of the wind turbine blade causes the pile foundation to withstand a prone overturning moment. For overcoming the problems of traditional sensing technology and meeting the monitoring requirements of pile foundations, a 20 cm spatial resolution differential pulse pair Brillouin optical time-domain analysis (DPP-BOTDA) technique is used to measure a 69 m long offshore wind turbine pile under horizontal loading. From the distributed strain data collected in the test, the maximum stress location of the long pile under the horizontal load can be obtained. By analyzing the load and maximum strain (F-εmax) curve, the horizontal bearing capacity of the pile foundation can exceed 900 kN, which is the maximum horizontal load of the design. The distributed displacement calculation method based on distributed strain data is proposed, according to the force characteristics of steel pipe piles. By comparing the calculated displacement data with the measured data by the dial indicators, the mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) value is only 0.03548. Results show that the 20 cm spatial resolution DPP-BOTDA technology is very suitable for the bearing capacity test of offshore wind turbine steel pipe pile foundations.
Highlights
Offshore wind power, with the advantages of high wind speed, low wind edge cutting, low turbulence, and high output, has gradually become a new field of wind power development
Pile foundations are widely used in offshore wind turbine foundations, and piles are large in diameter, deep in soil, and high in bearing capacity
Differential pulse pair Brillouin optical time-domain analysis (DPP-BOTDA) technique is used in the horizontal-loading performance test of wind turbine pile foundations for the first time, to the best of our knowledge
Summary
With the advantages of high wind speed, low wind edge cutting, low turbulence, and high output, has gradually become a new field of wind power development. The foundation of offshore wind turbines has a special engineering attribute It is located in the marine environment and subjected to the repeated impact of seawater. The last two techniques are implemented with two long different pulses (phase or width) and the differential signal is obtained via the subtraction between two Brillouin signals Both techniques have shown the capabilities of high spatial resolution and long-range sensing. Differential pulse pair Brillouin optical time-domain analysis (DPP-BOTDA) technique is used in the horizontal-loading performance test of wind turbine pile foundations for the first time, to the best of our knowledge. The practicality of the high spatial resolution DPP-BOTDA technology in the field of offshore pile foundation is verified
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