A Survey of WEC Reliability, Survival and Design Practices
A wave energy converter must be designed to survive and function efficiently, often in highly energetic ocean environments. This represents a challenging engineering problem, comprising systematic failure mode analysis, environmental characterization, modeling, experimental testing, fatigue and extr...
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| description | A wave energy converter must be designed to survive and function efficiently, often in highly energetic ocean environments. This represents a challenging engineering problem, comprising systematic failure mode analysis, environmental characterization, modeling, experimental testing, fatigue and extreme response analysis. While, when compared with other ocean systems such as ships and offshore platforms, there is relatively little experience in wave energy converter design, a great deal of recent work has been done within these various areas. This paper summarizes the general stages and workflow for wave energy converter design, relying on supporting articles to provide insight. By surveying published work on wave energy converter survival and design response analyses, this paper seeks to provide the reader with an understanding of the different components of this process and the range of methodologies that can be brought to bear. In this way, the reader is provided with a large set of tools to perform design response analyses on wave energy converters. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a7aa42931bb14fc981bfe9097fca12692022-12-22T02:56:28ZengMDPI AGEnergies1996-10732017-12-01111410.3390/en11010004en11010004A Survey of WEC Reliability, Survival and Design PracticesRyan G. Coe0Yi-Hsiang Yu1Jennifer van Rij2Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185, USANational Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO 80303, USANational Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO 80303, USAA wave energy converter must be designed to survive and function efficiently, often in highly energetic ocean environments. This represents a challenging engineering problem, comprising systematic failure mode analysis, environmental characterization, modeling, experimental testing, fatigue and extreme response analysis. While, when compared with other ocean systems such as ships and offshore platforms, there is relatively little experience in wave energy converter design, a great deal of recent work has been done within these various areas. This paper summarizes the general stages and workflow for wave energy converter design, relying on supporting articles to provide insight. By surveying published work on wave energy converter survival and design response analyses, this paper seeks to provide the reader with an understanding of the different components of this process and the range of methodologies that can be brought to bear. In this way, the reader is provided with a large set of tools to perform design response analyses on wave energy converters.https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/11/1/4wave energy converter (WEC)designsurvivalextreme conditions |
| spellingShingle | Ryan G. Coe Yi-Hsiang Yu Jennifer van Rij A Survey of WEC Reliability, Survival and Design Practices Energies wave energy converter (WEC) design survival extreme conditions |
| title | A Survey of WEC Reliability, Survival and Design Practices |
| title_full | A Survey of WEC Reliability, Survival and Design Practices |
| title_fullStr | A Survey of WEC Reliability, Survival and Design Practices |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Survey of WEC Reliability, Survival and Design Practices |
| title_short | A Survey of WEC Reliability, Survival and Design Practices |
| title_sort | survey of wec reliability survival and design practices |
| topic | wave energy converter (WEC) design survival extreme conditions |
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