Free Webinar

Simulating Hidden Structural Risks in Wind Turbines Support Structures

About the Webinar

Hidden structural risks in wind turbine support structures often remain undetected until they lead to fatigue damage, instability, or costly repowerings. While global analyses may indicate acceptable performance, they frequently overlook critical local effects driven by cyclic, combined, and time-dependent loading conditions. 

  • Why hidden structural risks arise: wind-induced cyclic loading, mismatch between design and real operation, and limits of global checks

  • Support structures as fatigue-driven systems: load paths in towers, blades, and jackets, interaction between global behavior and local details, and where hidden risks typically develop

  • Where traditional verification falls short: simplified load envelopes, conservative assumptions vs real stress histories, and gaps between global FEA results and local checks

  • How to identify hidden risks with SDC Verifier: capture real load effects, detect critical stress ranges and instability-prone zones, evaluate fatigue and buckling, and follow code-compliant verification

  • How to use SDC SAM to support lifetime extension and inspection planning: increase confidence in reinforcement and design optimization

  • Mateusz Sandrzyk

    Presenter

  • , ,