EUROS - Excellence in Uncertainty Reduction of Offshore wind Systems

Key to achieving this is a paradigm shift to a probabilistic approach in design - reducing uncertainties that cause overly conservative safety factors – and in the planning and costing of installation and maintenance logistics to improve efficiency.

EUROS consist of three closely linked projects:

• External conditions resulting in advanced probability models for wind and waves (including their correlation), extended weather forecasts to create more freedom in logistical planning, and efficient numerical techniques (uncertainty propagation) to translate the uncertainties in external conditions into loads on OWTs (including wake effects),

• Loads and damage resulting in a protocol for smart monitoring, models to connect monitoring results to damage development (consumption of service life), and advanced physical models for crack initiation and propagation and seabed erosion,

• Wind farm design optimisation resulting in integral uncertainty maps on wind farm level (including the introduction of probabilistic planning and costing of logistics) identifying the best options for cost reduction.

Partners

• Delft University of Technology (DUT)

• Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e)

• Wageningen University (WU)

• Stichting Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI

• Systems Navigator

• Fugro Engineers B.V.

• DNV-GL

• Van Oord

• Ballast Nedam

• IHC Hydrohammer

• Eneco

• Heerema

Website: http://www.stw.nl/nl/content/p14-03-euros-%E2%80%93-excellence-uncertainty-reduction-offshore-wind-systems
Fugro Contact: Joek Peuchen (J.Peuchen@fugro.nl)