Safety Evaluation of a Hybrid Substructure for Offshore Wind Turbine

Table 17

Joint unity checks for regular wave.

	LSWL		MSL		HSWL
	Pile-soil	Fixed	Pile-soil	Fixed	Pile-soil	Fixed
Axial	0.05868	0.05920	0.03708	0.03753	0.02884	0.02884
In-plane bending	0.75487	0.74347	0.94235	0.94135	0.92134	0.92134
Out-of-plane bending	0.11832	0.11895	0.11375	0.01131	0.09605	0.09605
Combined (axial + bending)	0.69249	0.67478	0.96058	0.96008	0.94048	0.94049