1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910637719203321

Autore

Leimeister Mareike

Titolo

Reliability-based optimization of floating wind turbine support structures / / Mareike Leimeister

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2023]

©2023

ISBN

9783030968892

9783030968885

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (336 pages)

Collana

Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research, , 2190-5061

Disciplina

016.5192

Soggetti

Mathematical optimization

Offshore wind power plants - Law and legislation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Review of Reliability-Based Risk Analysis Methods Used in the Offshore Wind Industry -- Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Systems -- Modeling, Automated Simulation, and Optimization -- Design Optimization of FloatingWind Turbine Support Structures -- Reliability-Based Design Optimization of a Spar-Type FloatingWind Turbine Support Structure -- Discussion -- Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

This book pursues the ambitious goal of combining floating wind turbine design optimization and reliability assessment, which has in fact not been done before. The topic is organized into a series of very ambitious objectives, which start with an initial state-of-the-art review, followed by the development of high-fidelity frameworks for a disruptive way to design next generation floating offshore wind turbine (FOWT) support structures. The development of a verified aero-hydro-servo-elastic coupled numerical model of dynamics for FOWTs and a holistic framework for automated simulation and optimization of FOWT systems, which is later used for the coupling of design optimization with reliability assessment of FOWT systems in a computationally and time-efficient manner, has been an aim of many groups internationally towards implementing a performance-based/goal-setting approach in the design of complex engineering systems. The outcomes of this work



quantify the benefits of an optimal design with a lower mass while fulfilling design constraints. Illustrating that comprehensive design methods can be combined with reliability analysis and optimization algorithms towards an integrated reliability-based design optimization (RBDO) can benefit not only the offshore wind energy industry but also other applications such as, among others, civil infrastructure, aerospace, and automotive engineering.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910508500903321

Autore

Damonte Gerardo

Titolo

Andean states and the resource curse : institutional change in extractive economies / / edited by Gerardo Damonte, Bettina Schorr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Taylor & Francis, 2022

London : , : Routledge, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

1-00-317955-X

1-000-52702-6

1-003-17955-X

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (276 pages)

Collana

Routledge studies of the extractive industries

Disciplina

338.2

Soggetti

Mineral industries

Andes Region Economic conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume explores institutional change and performance in the resource-rich Andean countries during the last resource-boom and in the early post-boom years. The latest global commodity boom has profoundly marked the face of the resource-rich Andean region, significantly contributing to economic growth and notable reductions of poverty and income inequality. The boom also constituted a period of important institutional change with these new institutions sharing the potential of preventing or mitigating the maladies extractive economies



tend to suffer from, generally denominated as the "resource curse". This volume explores these institutional changes in the Andean region to identify the factors that have shaped their emergence and to assess their performance. The interdisciplinary and comparative perspective of the chapters in this book provide fine-grained analyses of different new institutions introduced in the Andean countries and discusses their findings in the light of the resource curse approach. They argue that institutional change and performance depend upon a much larger set of factors than those generally identified by the resource curse literature. Different, domestic and external, economic, political and cultural factors such as ideological positions of decision-makers, international pressure or informal practices have shaped institutional dynamics in the region. Altogether, these findings emphasize the importance of nuanced and contextualized analysis to better understand institutional dynamics in the context of extractive economies. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of the extractive industries, natural resource management, political economics, Latin American studies and sustainable development.