...Baran Yeter; Yordan Garbatov; C. Guedes Soares The objective of the present work is to carry out the strength assessment of jacket offshore wind turbine support structures subjected to progressive rupture. A defect existing in a structure made during the fabrication may turn into a small-scale...

..., including membrane stretching, local plastic bending, complex object geometry, rupture, cracking and friction. Advanced analytical formulas that can be used to describe these behavior mechanisms are introduced. These formulas are based on the advanced structural crashworthiness methodology. Recently, new...