ABSTRACT Dynamic Response Analysis of Onshore Wind Energy Power Units during Earthquakes an.pdf

Proceedings of The Twelfth (2002) International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference Kitakyushu, Japan, May 26–31, 2002 Copyright © 2002 by The International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers ISBN 1-880653-58-3 (Set); ISSN 1098-6189 (Set) Dynamic Response Analysis of Onshore Wind Energy Power Units during Earthquakes and Wind Osamu KIYOMIYA Fellow of JACE, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Waseda University Tokyo, Japan Tatsuomi RIKIJI Master student, Department of Civil Engineering, Waseda University Tokyo, Japan Pieter H.A.J.M. van GELDER Senior Scientific Staff Member, Department of Civil Engineering, Delft University of Technology Delft, the Netherlands ABSTRACT Load combinations of wind forces and earthquake forces for wind energy power units are investigated from a probabilistic point of view When large-scale earthquake events are taken into consideration in structural design, wind forces at the mean wind velocity during service life can be added to the earthquake forces. Dynamic response analysis is carried out to estimate sectional forces at the wind energy power units. It is made clear that the tower has fairly large seismic capacity when the tower is designed by wind force at strong wind velocities due to t