An age-based preventive maintenance for offshore wind turbines

When modelling the maintenance and optimization of complex and real systems one is faced with the challenge of capturing the realistic aspects of a system’s performance and the dynamics of the interactions among numerous subsystems or components (Guedes Soares et al. 2010, Zio et al. 2009). Simulation approaches are often essential for such purpose even when dealing with condition monitoring (Barata et al. 2002), which is being considered also for wind turbines (Van Horenbeek et al. 2013).