Reanalysis of Jacket Support Structure for Computer-Aided Optimization of Offshore Wind Turbines with a Genetic Algorithm.

The article reports on a study concerning the optimization of jacket support structures for offshore wind turbines. Topics discussed include the proposal of a method to modify the standard genetic algorithm for optimizing jacket support structures, the challenges associated with using time-domain simulations in optimizing jacket structures and the advantages of the proposed method for modifying genetic algorithm over other performance analysis methods.