IEC TS 61400-3-2:2019
(Main)Wind energy generation systems - Part 3-2: Design requirements for floating offshore wind turbines
Wind energy generation systems - Part 3-2: Design requirements for floating offshore wind turbines
IEC TS 61400-3-2:2019 specifies additional requirements for assessment of the external conditions at a floating offshore wind turbine (FOWT) site and specifies essential design requirements to ensure the engineering integrity of FOWTs. Its purpose is to provide an appropriate level of protection against damage from all hazards during the planned lifetime.
This document focuses on the engineering integrity of the structural components of a FOWT but is also concerned with subsystems such as control and protection mechanisms, internal electrical systems and mechanical systems.
A wind turbine is considered as a FOWT if the floating substructure is subject to hydrodynamic loading and supported by buoyancy and a station-keeping system. A FOWT encompasses five principal subsystems: the RNA, the tower, the floating substructure, the station-keeping system and the on-board machinery, equipment and systems that are not part of the RNA.
The following types of floating substructures are explicitly considered within the context of this document:
a) ship-shaped structures and barges,
b) semi-submersibles (Semi),
c) spar buoys (Spar),
d) tension-leg platforms/buoys (TLP / TLB).
In addition to the structural types listed above, this document generally covers other floating platforms intended to support wind turbines. These other structures can have a great range of variability in geometry and structural forms and, therefore, can be only partly covered by the requirements of this document. In other cases, specific requirements stated in this document can be found not to apply to all or part of a structure under design. In all the above cases, conformity with this document will require that the design is based upon its underpinning principles and achieves a level of safety equivalent, or superior, to the level implicit in it.
This document is applicable to unmanned floating structures with one single horizontal axis turbine. Additional considerations might be needed for multi-turbine units on a single floating substructure, vertical-axis wind turbines, or combined wind/wave energy systems.
This document is to be used together with the appropriate IEC and ISO standards mentioned in Clause 2. In particular, this document is intended to be fully consistent with the requirements of IEC 61400-1 and IEC 61400-3-1. The safety level of the FOWT designed according to this document is to be at or exceed the level inherent in IEC 61400‑1 and IEC 61400-3-1.
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CONTENTS
FOREWORD ........................................................................................................................... 5
INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................................... 7
1 Scope .............................................................................................................................. 8
2 Normative references ...................................................................................................... 8
3 Terms and definitions ...................................................................................................... 9
4 Symbols and abbreviated terms ..................................................................................... 12
4.1 Symbols and units................................................................................................. 12
4.2 Abbreviations ........................................................................................................ 12
5 Principal elements ......................................................................................................... 12
5.2 Design methods .................................................................................................... 12
5.6 Support structure markings ................................................................................... 14
6 External conditions – definition and assessment ............................................................ 14
6.1 General ................................................................................................................. 14
6.1.2 Wind conditions .................................................................................................... 14
6.3.3 Marine conditions ................................................................................................. 14
6.3.5 Other environmental conditions ............................................................................. 15
7 Structural design ........................................................................................................... 15
7.1 General ................................................................................................................. 15
7.3 Loads.................................................................................................................... 15
7.3.2 Gravitational and inertial loads ...................................................................... 15
7.3.3 Aerodynamic loads ........................................................................................ 15
7.3.5 Hydrodynamic loads ...................................................................................... 15
7.3.6 Sea/lake ice loads ......................................................................................... 15
7.3.7 Other loads .................................................................................................... 16
7.4 Design situations and load cases .......................................................................... 16
7.5 Load and load effect calculations .......................................................................... 18
7.5.1 General ......................................................................................................... 18
7.5.2 Relevance of hydrodynamic loads .................................................................. 18
7.5.3 Calculation of hydrodynamic loads ................................................................. 18
7.5.4 Calculation of sea/lake ice loads .................................................................... 19
7.5.6 Simulation requirements ................................................................................ 19
7.5.7 Other requirements ........................................................................................ 21
7.6 Ultimate limit state analysis................................................................................... 21
7.6.1 General ......................................................................................................... 21
7.6.3 Fatigue failure ............................................................................................... 22
7.6.6 Working stress design method ....................................................................... 22
7.6.7 Serviceability analysis ................................................................................... 23
8 Control system .............................................................................................................. 23
9 Mechanical systems ...................................................................................................... 24
10 Electrical systems .......................................................................................................... 24
11 Foundation and substructure design .............................................................................. 24
12 Assembly, installation and erection ................................................................................ 24
12.1 General ................................................................................................................. 24
12.2 General ................................................................................................................. 24
12.3 Planning ............................................................................................................... 25
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12.13 Floating specific items .......................................................................................... 25
13 Commissioning, operation and maintenance .................................................................. 25
13.1 General ................................................................................................................. 25
13.3 Instructions concerning commissioning ................................................................. 25
13.4 Operator’s instruction manual ............................................................................... 25
13.4.1 General ......................................................................................................... 25
13.4.6 Emergency procedures plan .......................................................................... 25
13.5 Maintenance manual ............................................................................................. 25
14 Stationkeeping systems ................................................................................................. 25
15 Floating stability ............................................................................................................ 26
15.1 General ................................................................................................................. 26
15.2 Intact static stability criteria .................................................................................. 26
15.3 Alternative intact stability criteria based on dynamic-response .............................. 26
15.4 Damage stability criteria ....................................................................................... 26
16 Materials ....................................................................................................................... 27
17 Marine support systems ................................................................................................. 27
17.1 General ................................................................................................................. 27
17.2 Bilge system ......................................................................................................... 27
17.3 Ballast system ...................................................................................................... 27
Annex A (informative) Key design parameters for a floating offshore wind turbine ................ 28
A.1 Floating offshore wind turbine identifiers ............................................................... 28
A.1.1 General ......................................................................................................... 28
A.1.2 Rotor nacelle assembly (machine) parameters ............................................... 28
A.1.3 Support structure parameters ........................................................................ 28
A.1.4 Wind conditions (based on a 10-min reference period and includingwind farm wake effects where relevant) ......................................................... 29
A.1.5 Marine conditions (based on a 3-hour reference period where relevant) ........ 29
A.1.6 Electrical network conditions at turbine .......................................................... 30
A.2 Other environmental conditions ............................................................................. 30
A.3 Limiting conditions for transport, installation and maintenance .............................. 31
Annex B (informative) Shallow water hydrodynamics and breaking waves ............................ 32
Annex C (informative) Guidance on calculation of hydrodynamic loads ................................ 33
Annex D (informative) Recommendations for design of floating offshore wind turbine
support structures with respect to ice loads .......................................................................... 34
Annex E (informative) Floating offshore wind turbine foundation and substructure
design ................................................................................................................................... 35
Annex F (informative) Statistical extrapolation of operational metocean parameters
for ultimate strength analysis ................................................................................................ 36
Annex G (informative) Corrosion protection ......................................................................... 37
Annex H (informative) Prediction of extreme wave heights during tropical cyclones ............. 38
Annex I (informative) Recommendations for alignment of safety levels in tropical
cyclone regions ..................................................................................................................... 39
Annex J (informative) Earthquakes ...................................................................................... 40
Annex K (informative) Model tests ....................................................................................... 41
Annex L (informative) Tsunamis ........................................................................................... 43
L.1 General ................................................................................................................. 43
L.2 Numerical model of tsunami [3],[4] ........................................................................ 43
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L.3 Evaluation of variance of water surface elevation and current velocity [5] ............. 45
L.4 Reference documents ........................................................................................... 46
Annex M (informative) Non-redundant stationkeeping system .............................................. 47
Annex N (informative) Differing limit state methods in wind and offshore standards ............. 48
Annex O (informative) Application of non-standard duration extreme operating gusts .......... 50
Bibliography .......................................................................................................................... 51
Figure 1 – Parts of a floating offshore wind turbine (FOWT) .................................................. 11
Figure 2 – Design process for a floating offshore wind turbine (FOWT) ................................. 13
Figure L.1 – The calculated result of Equation (L.8) .............................................................. 45
Table 2 – FOWT specific design load cases .......................................................................... 17
Table 4 – Safety factor for yield stress .................................................................................. 23
Table N.1 – Mapping of limit states and load cases in ISO 19904-1, Table 4 and load
cases from IEC TS 61400-3-2 ............................................................................................... 49
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Wind energy generation systems.This part is to be read in conjunction with IEC 61400-1:2019, Wind energy generation systems
– Part 1: Design requirements and IEC 61400-3-1:2019, Wind energy generation systems –
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From Clause 2 forward, this document does not replicate text from IEC 61400-1 and
IEC 61400-3-1; instead, the section headings (including numbering) and text fromIEC 61400-3-1 apply to this document except where noted. Exceptions include additions,
deletions, or changes in requirements for FOWT relative to fixed offshore wind turbines. New
clauses, subclauses, annexes, equations, tables, and terms and definitions in this document
are numbered sequentially following the last corresponding number from IEC 61400-3-1.
The text of this technical specification is based on the following documents:DTS Report on voting
88/649/DTS 88/673/RVDTS
Full information on the voting for the approval of this technical specification can be found in
the report on voting indicated in the above table.This document has been drafted in accordance with the ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2.
A list of all parts of IEC 61400 series, published under the general title Wind energy
generation systems, can be found on the IEC website.The committee has decided that the contents of this document will remain unchanged until the
stability date indicated on the IEC website under "http://webstore.iec.ch" in the data related to
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INTRODUCTION
This part of IEC 61400 outlines minimum design requirements for floating offshore wind
turbines (FOWT) and is not intended for use as a complete design specification or instruction
manual.Several different parties may be responsible for undertaking the various elements of the
design, manufacture, assembly, installation, erection, commissioning, operation and
maintenance of an offshore wind turbine and for ensuring that the requirements of this
document are met. The division of responsibility between these parties is a contractual matter
and is outside the scope of this document.Any of the requirements of this document may be altered if it can be suitably demonstrated
that the safety of the system is not compromised. Compliance with this document does not
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1 Scope
This part of IEC 61400, which is a technical specification, specifies additional requirements
for assessment of the external conditions at a floating offshore wind turbine (FOWT) site and
specifies essential design requirements to ensure the engineering integrity of FOWTs. Its
purpose is to provide an appropriate level of protection against damage from all hazards
during the planned lifetime.This document focuses on the engineering integrity of the structural components of a FOWT
but is also concerned with subsystems such as control and protection mechanisms, internal
electrical systems and mechanical systems.A wind turbine is considered as a FOWT if the floating substructure is subject to
hydrodynamic loading and supported by buoyancy and a station-keeping system. A FOWT
encompasses five principal subsystems: the RNA, the tower, the floating substructure, the
station-keeping system and the on-board machinery, equipment and systems that are not part
of the RNA.The following types of floating substructures are explicitly considered within the context of this
document:a) ship-shaped structures and barges,
b) semi-submersibles (Semi),
c) spar buoys (Spar),
d) tension-leg platforms/buoys (TLP / TLB).
In addition to the structural types listed above, this document generally covers other floating
platforms intended to support wind turbines. These other structures can have a great range of
variability in geometry and structural forms and, therefore, can be only partly covered by the
requirements of this document. In other cases, specific requirements stated in this document
can be found not to apply to all or part of a structure under design. In all the above cases,
conformity with this document will require that the design is based upon its underpinning
principles and achieves a level of safety equivalent, or superior, to the level implicit in it.
This document is applicable to unmanned floating structures with one single horizontal axis
turbine. Additional considerations might be needed for multi-turbine units on a single floating
substructure, vertical-axis wind turbines, or combined wind/wave energy systems.This document is to be used together with the appropriate IEC and ISO standards mentioned
in Clause 2. In particular, this document is intended to be fully consistent with the
requirements of IEC 61400-1 and IEC 61400-3-1. The safety level of the FOWT designed
according to this document is to be at or exceed the level inherent in IEC 61400-1 and IEC
61400-3-1.2 Normative references
Replacement of Clause 2 of IEC 61400-3-1:2019.
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The following documents are referred to in the text in such a way that some or all of their
content constitutes requirements of this document. For dated references, only the edition
cited applies. For undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including
any amendments) applies.IEC 61400-1:2019, Wind energy generation systems – Part 1: Design requirements
IEC 61400-3-1:2019, Wind energy generation systems – Part 3-1: Design requirements for
fixed offshore wind turbinesISO 19901-1:2015, Petroleum and natural gas industries – Specific requirements for offshore
structures – Part 1: Metocean design and operating conditionsISO 19901-4:2016, Petroleum and natural gas industries – Specific requirements for offshore
structures – Part 4: Geotechnical and foundation design considerationsISO 19901-6:2009, Petroleum and natural gas industries – Specific requirements for offshore
structures – Part 6: Marine operationsISO 19901-7:2013, Petroleum and natural gas industries – Specific requirements for offshore
structures – Part 7: Stationkeeping systems for floating offshore structures and mobile
offshore unitsISO 19904-1:2006, Petroleum and natural gas industries — Floating offshore structures —
Part 1: Monohulls, semisubmersibles and sparsISO 19906:2010, Petroleum and natural gas industries – Arctic offshore structures
IMO Resolution MSC.267(85), International Code on Intact Stability, 2008 (2008 IS CODE)
API RP 2FPS: 2011, Recommended Practice for Planning, Designing, and Constructing
Floating Production SystemsAPI RP 2T (R2015): 2010, Recommended Practice for Planning, Designing, and Constructing
Tension Leg Platforms3 Terms and definitions
For the purposes of this document, the following terms and definitions apply in addition to, or
replacing, those stated in IEC 61400-1 and IEC 61400-3-1.ISO and IEC maintain terminological databases for use in standardization at the following
addresses:• IEC Electropedia: available at http://www.electropedia.org/
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3.54
splash zone
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Note 1 to entry: To define upper and lower limits of the splash zone, the following parameters shall be
superimposed where applicable to the specific FOWT support structure type:• the highest still water level with a return period of 1 year increased by the crest height of a wave with height
equal to the significant wave height with a return period of 1 year,• the lowest still water level with a return period of 1 year reduced by the trough depth of a wave with height
equal to the significant wave height with a return period of 1 year,• draft variation, and
• vertical motions (heave, roll, pitch) of the floating substructure.
Note 2 to entry: While splash zone is not explicitly mentioned in this document, the definition given in this
document replaces the definition found in IEC 61400-3-1, which affects the interpretation of IEC 61400-3-1 for
FOWT.3.58
support structure
part of a FOWT consisting of the tower, floating substructure, and stationkeeping system
Note 1 to...
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