Lee, Yeon-Seung; Choi, Byung-Lyul; Lee, Ji Hyun; Kim, … - In: Renewable Energy 71 (2014) C, pp. 729-741
This paper presents a reliability-based design optimization (RBDO) method for a monopile transition piece in an … minimizing the mass of a conical monopile connection is carried out, including an assessment of the reliability of the DO design …. Next, RBDO is performed to achieve a design with the desired reliability while concurrently minimizing the mass of the …