TY - JFULL AU - Paul Dallyn and Ashraf El-Hamalawi and Alessandro Palmeri and Bob Knight PY - 2015/3/ TI - Development of a Numerical Model to Predict Wear in Grouted Connections for Offshore Wind Turbine Generators T2 - International Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering SP - 121 EP - 131 VL - 9 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10000414 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 98, 2015 N2 - In order to better understand the long term implications of the grout wear failure mode in large-diameter plainsided grouted connections, a numerical model has been developed and calibrated that can take advantage of existing operational plant data to predict the wear accumulation for the actual load conditions experienced over a given period, thus limiting the requirement for expensive monitoring systems. This model has been derived and calibrated based on site structural condition monitoring (SCM) data and supervisory control and data acquisition systems (SCADA) data for two operational wind turbine generator substructures afflicted with this challenge, along with experimentally derived wear rates. ER -