Publications

Assessing Fatigue Damage in the Reuse of a Decommissioned Offshore Jacket Platform to Support a Wind Turbine

An offshore energy transition, even if only a gradual one, from carbon-emitting fossil fuel extraction to cleaner sources is …
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Spatiotemporal Post-Calibration in a Numerical Weather Prediction Model for Quantifying Building Energy Consumption

Characterizing localized climate conditions is becoming important in many aspects of modern society. The Weather Research and …
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A Computational Model to Simulate Thunderstorm Downbursts for Wind Turbine Loads Analysis

The generation of wind fields is of interest in the study of the structural performance of wind turbines in critical events, such as …
Phanisri P. Pratapa, Hieu H. Nguyen, Lance Manuel
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The Effect of Porous Media on Wave-Induced Sloshing in a Floating Tank

Placing porous media in a water tank can change the dynamic characteristics of the sloshing fluid. Its extra damping effect can …
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Horizontal and vertical axis wind turbines on existing jacket platforms: Part 2 – Retrofitting activities

A fast-expanding number of oil & gas companies are planning to shift investment to renewable energy projects, with offshore wind …
Paulo Mendes, José A.F.O. Correia, João Arrojado, Taemin Heo, Nicholas Fantuzzi, Lance Manuel
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Correlation of Performance of Reinforced Concrete Buildings with Energy-Based Parameters

Background: The intensity of ground shaking and the demand on structures during earthquakes have been generally characterized using …
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Greedy copula segmentation of multivariate non-stationary time series for climate change adaptation

Non-stationary climate data are often encountered in dealing with natural hazards, climate change and disaster reduction. With drought, …
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A surrogate model for estimating uncertainty in marine riser fatigue damage resulting from vortex-induced vibration

Of interest in this work is the quantification of uncertainty in fatigue damage of a top-tensioned riser (TTR) resulting from …
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Profiles of Two JOMAE Associate Editors (The Fourth in a Continuing Series)

For thirty-five years, beginning in 1987, the ASME Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering has provided a platform for …
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Stress concentration factor evaluation of offshore tubular KT joints based on analytical and numerical solutions: Comparative study

Fatigue damage is treacherous and can lead to the failure of offshore structures. The purpose of this research is to evaluate and …
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Profiles of Two JOMAE Associate Editors (A Continuing Series)

Since its inaugural issue in 1987, the ASME Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering has been a mainstay in its support of …
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StEER: Hurricane Ida joint preliminary virtual reconnaissance report-early access reconnaissance report (PVRR-EARR)

Hurricane Ida made landfall as a major hurricane on the Louisiana coastline on 29 August 2021. It generated damaging winds and storm …
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A benchmarking exercise for environmental contours

Environmental contours are used to simplify the process of design response analysis. A wide variety of contour methods exist; however, …
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A simulation study on risks to wind turbine arrays from thunderstorm downbursts in different atmospheric stability conditions

Thunderstorm downbursts have been reported to cause damage or failure to wind turbine arrays. We extend a large-eddy simulation model …
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Horizontal and vertical axis wind turbines on existing jacket platforms: Part 1–A comparative study

The wind resource offshore is often excellent due to a higher average wind speed and lower turbulence intensity. Jacket structures are …
Paulo Mendes, José AFO Correia, José Miguel Castro, Nicholas Fantuzzi, Ali Aidibi, Lance Manuel
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A Second Benchmarking Exercise on Estimating Extreme Environmental Conditions: Methodology & Baseline Results

Estimating extreme environmental conditions remains a key challenge in the design of offshore structures. This paper describes an …
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Attenuation of Energy-based Demand Parameters

The intensity of ground shaking and the demand on structures during earthquakes have been generally characterized using parameters such …
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Residual stress effects on fatigue life prediction using hardness measurements for butt-welded joints made of high strength steels

The fatigue resistance of welded connections made of high strength steel (HSS) is one of the most important topics for the application …
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Toward understanding waked flow fields behind a wind turbine using proper orthogonal decomposition

This study proposes the use of an approach based on proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) to explore reduced-order wake turbulence …
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On Efficient Surrogate Model Development for Prediction of the Long-Term Extreme Response of a Moored Floating Structure

This study focuses on the development of efficient surrogate models by polynomial chaos expansion (PCE) for prediction of the long-term …
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Distribution-free polynomial chaos expansion surrogate models for efficient structural reliability analysis

In complex stochastic high-dimensional reliability studies, polynomial chaos expansion (PCE) has been widely used to build surrogate …
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City-Scale Electricity Demand Forecasting using a Gaussian Process Model

Accurate and efficient power demand forecasting in urban settings is essential for making decisions related to planning, managing and …
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A statistical approach to account for azimuthal variability in single-station HVSR measurements

The horizontal-to-vertical spectral ratio (HVSR) of ambient noise is commonly used to infer a site’s resonance frequency …
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A Continuing Series on the Journal's Associate Editors

The ASME Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering is an international resource for original peer-reviewed research that …
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A statistical representation and frequency-domain window-rejection algorithm for single-station HVSR measurements

The horizontal-to-vertical spectral ratio (HVSR) of ambient noise measurement is commonly used to estimate a site’s resonance …
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Simulation of Wind, Waves, and Currents During Hurricane Sandy for Planned Assessment of Offshore Wind Turbines

The simulation of wind and wave fields for the evaluation of jacket-supported offshore wind turbines during Hurricane Sandy of 2012 is …
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On the Development of an Efficient Surrogate Model for Predicting Long-Term Extreme Loads on a Wave Energy Converter

Accurate prediction of long-term extreme loads is essential for the design of wave energy converters (WECs), but it is also …
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Wind Field-Based Short-Term Turbine Response Forecasting by Stacked Dilated Convolutional LSTMs

Predicting a wind turbine’s responses that correspond to a complex wind field is challenging because the responses are caused by …
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Projecting the Most Likely Annual Urban Heat Extremes in the Central United States

Climate studies based on global climate models (GCMs) project a steady increase in annual average temperature and severe heat extremes …
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On Wind Turbine Loads During the Evening Transition Period

The late afternoon hours in the diurnal cycle precede the development of the nocturnal stable boundary layer. This “evening transition” …
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Influence of uncertain parameters on modal properties of wood floors

The use of wood as load-bearing material in residential and office buildings has increased significantly in Europe over the last …
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A surrogate model to describe uncertainties in wood floor modal frequencies

Wooden multi-story buildings have increased their market share in Europe over the last decades, mainly due to their relatively small …
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A surrogate model for vibration transmission in layered soil

Ground vibration from traffic or construction work in cities is a known source of annoyance to inhabitants. However, vibration and …
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Design loads for a large wind turbine supported by a semi-submersible floating platform

The dynamic response and reliability analysis of a 13.2 MW offshore wind turbine supported by a moored semi-submersible platform is the …
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A Benchmarking Exercise on Estimating Extreme Environmental Conditions: Methodology and Baseline Results

A wide range of methods have been proposed for the derivation of environmental contours for marine structures that must meet …
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ASME Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering—An Editorial

The inaugural issue of ASME Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering was launched in February 1987. The venerable (late) …
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On wind turbine loads during thunderstorm downbursts in contrasting atmospheric stability regimes

Severe winds produced by thunderstorm downbursts pose a serious risk to the structural integrity of wind turbines. However, guidelines …
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Non-parametric prediction of the long-term fatigue damage for an instrumented top-tensioned riser

Marine risers are susceptible to sustained vortex-induced vibration (VIV) because of their slenderness and light damping. Commonly used …
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Ground Motion Prediction Equations for Energy-Based Demand Parameters Regional Application to Northwestern Turkey

The intensity of ground shaking and seismic demand on structures are generally characterized using parameters such as peak ground …
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Challenges in Determining Most Likely Future Urban Hot Temperature Extremes by Mid-Century for the Central US

Climate studies based on global climate models (GCMs) are projecting an overall steady increase in annual average temperature as well …
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Snap Load Criteria for Mooring Lines of a Floating Offshore Wind Turbine

There are several challenges facing the design of mooring system of floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs), including installation …
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Fatigue Resistance and Reliability of High Mast Illumination Poles (HMIPs) with Pre-Existing Cracks

High mast illumination poles (HMIPs) are used throughout Texas and the U.S. to provide lighting along highways and at interchanges. …
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Alternative approaches to develop environmental contours from metocean data

It is necessary to evaluate site-specific extreme environmental conditions in the design of wave energy converters (WECs) as well as …
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A Comparison of Empirical Procedures for Fatigue Damage Prediction in Instrumented Risers Undergoing Vortex-Induced Vibration

To gain insight into riser motions and associated fatigue damage due to vortex-induced vibration (VIV), data loggers such as strain …
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Alternative Mooring Systems for a Very Large Offshore Wind Turbine Supported by a Semisubmersible Floating Platform

As offshore wind turbines supported on floating platforms extend to deep waters, the various effects involved in the dynamics, …
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