Sacs Capability

SACS Wind Turbine Design Capabilities
Parvinder Jhita
Senior Product Manager
© 2014 Bentley Systems, Incorporated
SACS - Life Cycle Applications for Analysis and Design of
Wind Turbines Platforms
INSTALLATION
FABRICATION
INPLACE
CONDITION
DECOMISIONING
2 | WWW.BENTLEY.COM | © 2014 Bentley Systems, Incorporated
Fabrication
• Bent Roll Up - Jacket manufactured in portions which are then
rolled over using slings and joined together.
•Design structure to resist sling forces

Transportation Analysis
• Jacket structure is designed to resist inertial resulting from vessel motions
• Seafastners designed to resist inertial loads.
• TOW, SEASTATE : modules used to generate inertia loads

Installation Lift Analysis
• Design Jacket to resist lift forces and buoyancy loads as its lowered into the water
• FEMGV-SACS: Detailed FE analysis of lift padeyes

Inplace Design with PSI
•Structure Analyzed and designed to resist maximum operational and storm wave,
wind and current loading from different directions

Inplace Design - Non Linear Soil Behavior
PSI:
• API P-Y / T-Z Soil
• API Adhesion Soil
• User Defined P-Y / T –Z Soil
• User Defined Adhesion Soil
Mudline
Pile

Fatigue Analysis
FATIGUE: • Spectral
o Pierson Moiskowitz
o Ochi-Hubble
o JONSWAP
o User Defined
• Time History
• Deterministic
S-N : API, HSE, AWS, NORSOK, ISO, USER DEFINED
SCF: Efthymiou, Kwang and Wordsworth, Smedly and

Fisher, Marshal, DNV

Member Code Check Design
POST:

Detailed Joint Design
JOINT CAN:

Earthquake Analysis
DYNAMIC RESPONSE:
•Spectral
•API response spectra built in
•User defined spectra
•Modal combinations via SRSS or CQC methods
•Generate Equivalent Static Loads
•Time History
•Variable Time step Integration
•Nonlinear fluid damping
•Linear, quadratic or cubic interpolation between time history
input values

Non-Linear Ship Impact Analysis
•Design wind turbine jacket structure to withstand impact from a service vessel.
•Use the COLLAPSE module to account for both geometric and material non-linearity's
resulting from a ship impact event.
•Automatically mesh impact points to account for local indentation effects.
•Both quasi-static and dynamic impact analysis possible in SACS

Non-Linear Ship Impact Analysis
For an Impact Design Consider both Low Energy and High Energy Impact
Events
• Low Energy (Operational Impact)
Jacket Bracing Designed to Survive Operational Impact (partial yielding at point of impact).
• High Energy (Accidental Impact)
Jacket Legs Designed to Survive Accidental Impact.

Face and leg joints designed to survive accidental loading.
Jacket Bracing allowed to fail – Structure designed to survive loss of brace member.

Member Impact
PRECEDE:
•Automatic 3D meshing of tubular members
•Seamless integration into SACS model
•User controlled mesh density

Automatic Tubular Member Meshing

Joint Impact
MESH JOINT:
•3D Mesh of tubular joint in seconds
•Automatically identify chord and brace members
•Seamless integration into SACS model
•User controlled mesh density

Automatic Joint Meshing

Non-Linear Dynamic Ship Impact Analysis
DYNAMIC RESPONSE / COLLAPSE:

Wind Turbine Applications

Wind Turbine Fatigue Analysis
Wind Turbine Fatigue Loading
Wind load on Turbine
Dynamic Response of
Structure
Wind load on Structure
Wave Load on Structure

Wind Loading on Tower & Jacket
Wind loading can be represented in terms of a wind
spectrum or by a wind velocity time history.
Von Karman
Wind Spectrum API Spectrum
Harris
Kaimal
Wind Velocity Time History

Wave Loading on Jacket Structure
Wave loading can be represented either as a wave

spectrum or time history of the surface profile.
Wave Surface Profile Time History

Wave Forces on Large Tubular Columns
MacCamy and Fuchs
Diffraction Panels
Calibrate Diffraction Wave and Coefficient of Mass
MacCamy and Fuchs Approach Applied in : SACS Seastate and SACS Wave Response

Wave Forces on Large Tubular Columns
Base Shear D
Morrison's Equation
L
MacCamy and Fuchs
Base Shear
D/L

Wind Loading On Turbine
The wind loading on the turbine causes the rotation of the wind
turbine, which in turn generates aerodynamic and mechanical
forces on the top of the tower, which can be represented by a
force time history.
Wind load on Turbine
t
Force Time History

Wind Turbine Analysis
SACS Fatigue/Strength Analysis
Time history fatigue/strength analysis for the structure is possible if the following fatigue
load sources are available:
1. Turbine Mechanical and Aerodynamic Force Time History
2. Wind Spectrum or Wind Velocity Time History
3. Wave Spectrum or Wave Surface Profile Time History

Offshore Wind Turbine Solutions
SACS Wind Turbine Process (uncoupled)
SACS – FAST Interface (NREL)
SACS – GH Bladed Process (GL Garrad Hassan)
SACS – Siemens BHawC (Craig Brampton Dynamic Superelement)
SACS - ANSYS Post Processing

SACS Uncoupled Wind Turbine Process

Automated SACS Uncoupled Wind Turbine Process
Turbine loads
Modeling in SACS Analysis- SACS SACS Post Processing
Wave and wind loads

Jacket & Tower modeled in Fatigue/Member Check/Joint
generated in SACS. Turbine
SACS Precede Design in SACS
TH loads supplied by 3rd party
Iterative process because the response of the structure in 3rd party program has to match the response of the structure in
SACS
Automated SACS Uncoupled Wind Turbine Process - Fatigue
Control File
sacs.in
SACS Multi Fatigue Results
Partial Fatigue Input File ftginp.partial Core Analysis

Automated SACS Uncoupled Wind Turbine Process – Strength Analysis
Control File
sacs.in
Partial Seastate Input File

Strength Results
SACS Multi DB
PSI Input File Core Analysis
Joint Can Input File

Automated SACS Uncoupled Wind Turbine Process - Strength

SACS-FAST Interface

SACS – FAST interface : Fully Coupled Analysis
Modeling in SACS/FAST Analysis- FAST/SACS SACS Post Processing
Fully Coupled Time History

Jacket & Tower modeled in Analysis – wave and wind
Fatigue/Member Check/Joint
SACS Precede. Turbine loads generated in SACS
Design in SACS
modeled in FAST coupled with turbine forces
from FAST
SACS – FAST v8.0 Non Integrated Interface
Iterations Fully Coupled Solution
SACS FAST v8.0

Fully Coupled Solution
35 | WWW.BENTLEY.COM | © 2014 Bentley Systems, Incorporated New Feature Summary
SACS – FAST interface : Fully Coupled Analysis

SACS-GH Bladed Interface

SACS – GH Bladed Interface : Fully Coupled Analysis
Modeling in SACS Analysis- GH Bladed SACS Post Processing
Fully Coupled Time History Fatigue/Member Check/Joint

Modeling in SACS Precede
Analysis Design in SACS

GH Bladed Interface – Automated Multi Core
SACS.IN file generated by GH Bladed
GH Bladed result files for

different simulations and
occurrence data

SACS-GH Bladed Interface - Fatigue
Control File
sacs.in
Partial Fatigue Input File ftginp.partial SACS Multi Fatigue Results

Core Analysis
GH Bladed Results

SACS-GH Bladed Interface - Strength
Control File
sacs.in
POST Input File
SACS Multi DB
SACS Multi Strength Results
Core Analysis
Joint Can Input File Core Analysis
GH Bladed Results

SACS-GH Bladed Interface – Strength Analysis with Auto Combine Process.
Step 1 Use SACS Combine module to separate the dynamic and gravitational (dead) load components
GH Bladed Results (Dynamic) GH Bladed Results (Dynamic + Gravity ) GH Bladed Results (Gravity)
Step 2 Use SACS Combine module to recombine the dynamic and gravitational (dead) load components after applying
separate safety factors.
GH Bladed Results GH Bladed Results (Gravity) x SF1 GH Bladed Results (Dynamic) x SF2

SACS- Siemens BHawC

SACS-Siemens BHawC Craig-Bampton Dynamic Super Element
Mass File
Model File
Mode File
Seastate Input File DYNPAC Analysis

DSE Data File
(Mass, Stiffness, Modes)
Superelement
DSE Transformation File
(for wave forces)
Wave Response Input File
Mass File
Wave Response DSE Force File
Mode File
DSE Transformation File

(for wave forces)

SACS-Siemens BHawC Craig-Bampton Dynamic Super Element
Reduced Stiffness Matrix

DSE Input File
Reduced Mass Matrix
DSE Data File Dynamic Superelement
(Mass, Stiffness, Modes)
Damping Matrix
DSE Force File

Reduced Load Vector

Monopile Foundation Design

Monopile Foundations
• Foundation Design
Torsional Resistance
Pile End Moment Resistance
Pile End Shear Resistance
Pile Moment/Shear Distribution
• Radial Damping
• Fatigue Output at Different Locations for Inline Joints
• Stream function wave embedded in time history w/ modified CD around

the peak if the wave is breaking (slap loading).

PSI Enhancements for Large Diameter Monopiles
• Torsion Resistance
T =2𝜋𝑟 2 𝑇𝐿𝑖
• End Moment Resistance
• End Shear Resistance T dependent on T-Z data
M dependent on P-Y data
S dependent on T-Z data
S
M
PSI Enhancements for Large Diameter Monopiles
T dependent on T-Z data

• Torsion Resistance
M1 S1
Me dependent on P-Y data
• End Moment Resistance
M2 S2
Se dependent on T-Z data
• End Shear Resistance
M3 S3
Sn dependent on T-Z data
• Moment Distribution Along Pile
M4 S4
Mn dependent on T-Z data
• Shear Distribution Along Pile
Validate against Plaxis
Se
Me
Radial Damping
Sources Of Damping
Structural Damping
Wave Radiation Damping
Viscous Hydrodynamic Damping
Soil Damping
Inline Fatigue Calculations for Large Tubular Cross Sections
Fatigue calculations at
multiple points

Stream Function Constrained Wave
Stream Function Wave

Structure analyzed for Linear Random Seastate
extreme conditions by
blending a nonlinear Hmax
Stream Function wave into a
linear random seastate.
Modified Cd around peak for

slap load.

SACS Parallel Processing

Parallel Processing
Decreased Run Time Allows for Structural Optimization Reduction in Weight

Bentley Cloud Computing
Benefit: 1000’s of nodes available for parallel processing
Drawback: Slow upload and download of large files.
Suitable for SACS Uncoupled Analysis – small file size
Simulations Nodes Load cases Run Time
1 1 12000 1hr 15min

1000 1000 12000 2hr 30min

SACS Grid Parallel Processing
Internal computer network – not restricted to file size
Suitable for SACS-GH Bladed Interface – large results files.
Hard Drive Grid Run Cores Load cases Runtime

Non-SSD Non-Grid 32 2550 10-12hrs (estimated)
Single SSD Non-Grid 32 2550 8hrs
RAID SSD Grid 136 2550 2hrs 10min

SACS Tidal Energy

Marine Turbines – Tidal Energy
SACS/GH Tidal Bladed Interface

SACS Wind Turbine Clients

SACS – Wind Turbine

Development Partners
• GL Garrard Hassan : SACS- GH Bladed Interface
• Lloyds Renewables Division : SACS Uncoupled Process
• Siemens – SACS-Siemens BHawC Craig-Bampton Super Element
• Keystone Engineering : SACS Parallel Processing
• NREL : SACS-FAST Interface

Lloyds Register – Renewables Division
SACS-FAST Interface : Independent verification by Lloyds register
Lloyd’s to use SACS-FAST interface for certification of large UK offshore wind farms

NREL SACS-FAST Interface
Study to show that current industry standards for offshore wind turbine design do not account for
extreme design load cases in hurricane prone regions. .

Projects - Europe

London Array Wind Farm



Wikinger Wind Farm - Germany
Baltic Sea – 70 Platforms

Water Depth - 37m-43m

Projects - USA

First Offshore Wind Farm in USA Designed Using SACS
Block Island Wind Farm – Deep Water Wind
5 x 51m tall Foundations

28m Water Depth
Each design iteration included over 3000 time-domain simulations, of up to 12,000 time steps.
The SACS Wind Turbine module performed over 150 simulations in parallel and
6MW Alstom Turbines manage the terabytes of data generated in the analysis.
The jacket design process used SACS to optimize the amount of steel and reduce the installed cost by
over 20% versus traditional monopile construction. The Block Island Wind Farm jackets are 15% lighter
than the previous design used for the same wind turbine in similar water depth in the North Sea.
The SACS functionality to interface with DNVGL's BLADED software, which was used by the Wind Turbine
designers (Alstom) to perform their load simulations, was used to ensure that the models used in both
programs matched.
Projects - China

First Offshore Wind Farm in China Using SACS
Donghai Daqiao Wind Farm - SIDRI
- 34 Turbine Foundations
- 102 Megawatt Wind Farm (3MW Each)
- 200,000 Households Powered
- Water Depth 7m
- Location: next to Donghai Bridge, Shanghai

Offshore wind projects by ECIDI
© 2014 Bentley Systems, Incorporated
About ECIDI
• Largest offshore wind turbine foundation

designer in China
• Bentley SACS ELS user

Dongtai 200MW Offshore wind farm
• Located at Dongtai, Jiangsu

• The farthest(to shore) offshore
wind farm in China
• Owner is Luneng Group

Rudong 300MW Offshore Wind Farm
• Located at Rudong, Jiangsu

• The largest offshore wind farm
in Asia
• Owner is CHNG

Offshore Substation for Xiangshui 200MW wind farm
• First 220KV Offshore substation in

Asia
• Location at Xiangshui, Jiangsu
• Owner is CTG

Offshore Substation for Rudong 150MW wind farm
• First 110KV Offshore substation in

Asia
• Location at Rudong, Jiangsu
• Owner is CGN

Binhai North H1#100MW Offshore wind farm
• National award project

• Location at Binhai north, Jiangsu
• Owner is SPIC

Longyuan Rudong Offshore wind farm
• Location at Rudong, Jiangsu

• Owner is Longyuan Electric

Thank You

Sacs Capability

Încărcat de

Informații document

Titlu original

Drepturi de autor

Formate disponibile

Partajați acest document

Partajați sau inserați document

Opțiuni de partajare

Vi se pare util acest document?

Este necorespunzător acest conținut?

Drepturi de autor:

Formate disponibile

Sacs Capability

Încărcat de

Drepturi de autor:

Formate disponibile

SACS Wind Turbine Design Capabilities

•Design structure to resist sling forces

3 | WWW.BENTLEY.COM | © 2014 Bentley Systems, Incorporated

4 | WWW.BENTLEY.COM | © 2014 Bentley Systems, Incorporated

5 | WWW.BENTLEY.COM | © 2014 Bentley Systems, Incorporated

6 | WWW.BENTLEY.COM | © 2014 Bentley Systems, Incorporated

7 | WWW.BENTLEY.COM | © 2014 Bentley Systems, Incorporated

S-N : API, HSE, AWS, NORSOK, ISO, USER DEFINED

SCF: Efthymiou, Kwang and Wordsworth, Smedly and

8 | WWW.BENTLEY.COM | © 2014 Bentley Systems, Incorporated

9 | WWW.BENTLEY.COM | © 2014 Bentley Systems, Incorporated

10 | WWW.BENTLEY.COM | © 2014 Bentley Systems, Incorporated

11 | WWW.BENTLEY.COM | © 2014 Bentley Systems, Incorporated

•Automatically mesh impact points to account for local indentation effects.

•Both quasi-static and dynamic impact analysis possible in SACS

12 | WWW.BENTLEY.COM | © 2014 Bentley Systems, Incorporated

• Low Energy (Operational Impact)

• High Energy (Accidental Impact)

Jacket Legs Designed to Survive Accidental Impact.

13 | WWW.BENTLEY.COM | © 2014 Bentley Systems, Incorporated

•Automatic 3D meshing of tubular members

•Seamless integration into SACS model

•User controlled mesh density

14 | WWW.BENTLEY.COM | © 2014 Bentley Systems, Incorporated

15 | WWW.BENTLEY.COM | © 2014 Bentley Systems, Incorporated

•3D Mesh of tubular joint in seconds

•Automatically identify chord and brace members

•Seamless integration into SACS model

•User controlled mesh density

16 | WWW.BENTLEY.COM | © 2014 Bentley Systems, Incorporated

17 | WWW.BENTLEY.COM | © 2014 Bentley Systems, Incorporated

18 | WWW.BENTLEY.COM | © 2014 Bentley Systems, Incorporated

19 | WWW.BENTLEY.COM | © 2014 Bentley Systems, Incorporated

Wind load on Turbine

Wind load on Structure

Wave Load on Structure

20 | WWW.BENTLEY.COM | © 2014 Bentley Systems, Incorporated

Wind Velocity Time History

21 | WWW.BENTLEY.COM | © 2014 Bentley Systems, Incorporated

Wave loading can be represented either as a wave

Wave Surface Profile Time History

22 | WWW.BENTLEY.COM | © 2014 Bentley Systems, Incorporated

MacCamy and Fuchs

Calibrate Diffraction Wave and Coefficient of Mass

23 | WWW.BENTLEY.COM | © 2014 Bentley Systems, Incorporated

MacCamy and Fuchs

24 | WWW.BENTLEY.COM | © 2014 Bentley Systems, Incorporated

Wind load on Turbine

25 | WWW.BENTLEY.COM | © 2014 Bentley Systems, Incorporated

1. Turbine Mechanical and Aerodynamic Force Time History

2. Wind Spectrum or Wind Velocity Time History

3. Wave Spectrum or Wave Surface Profile Time History

26 | WWW.BENTLEY.COM | © 2014 Bentley Systems, Incorporated

SACS Wind Turbine Process (uncoupled)

SACS – FAST Interface (NREL)

SACS – GH Bladed Process (GL Garrad Hassan)

SACS – Siemens BHawC (Craig Brampton Dynamic Superelement)

SACS - ANSYS Post Processing

27 | WWW.BENTLEY.COM | © 2014 Bentley Systems, Incorporated

28 | WWW.BENTLEY.COM | © 2014 Bentley Systems, Incorporated

Modeling in SACS Analysis- SACS SACS Post Processing

Wave and wind loads

30 | WWW.BENTLEY.COM | © 2014 Bentley Systems, Incorporated