Thöns, Sebastian, Dr.

I was an external member of this group from 2007.04 - 2011.03.

Research projects

IRIS: European Integrated Risk Reduction System (EU Seventh Framework Programme)

IRISOW: Integrated Risk Reduction System for Offshore Wind Turbines (Joint industrial research cooperation between BAM, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Multibrid GmbH and OWT-Offshore Wind Technologie GmbH)

RiMiWARN: Risk Minimisation for Infrastructures (BAM Innovation Project)

2006 - 2009 IMO-WIND: Development of an Integral Monitoring and Assessment System for Offshore Wind Energy Converters (Project within the Innovation Network of the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology)

2002 – 2005 Shear Connectors for Higher-Strength Materials (HOCHTIEF-R&D)

PhD. Thesis

Thöns, S.
Monitoring Based Condition Assessment of Offshore Wind Turbine Structures. Chair of Risk and Safety, Institute of Structural Engineering. ETH Zurich.

Refereed Journal Papers

Thöns S., Faber M. H., Rücker W.
On measurement uncertainties, monitoring data and structural reliability. Under Review.

Thöns S., Faber M. H., Rücker W.
Fatigue and serviceability limit state model basis for assessment of offshore wind energy converters. Accepted for publication in the Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Artic Engineering (JOMAE).

Thöns S., Faber M. H., Rücker W.
Ultimate limit state model basis for assessment of offshore wind energy converters. Accepted for publication in the Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Artic Engineering (JOMAE).

Thöns S., Rohrmann R. G., Rücker W., Faber M. H. (2008).
Assessment of the fatigue resistance of offshore wind energy converters. Stahlbau, Issue 9/2008. In German.

Conference Papers

Thöns S., Faber M. H., Rücker W.
On the utilization of monitoring data in an ultimate limit state reliability analysis. Submitted to the 11th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering (ICASP). Zurich. Switzerland. August 1st-4th, 2011.

Thöns S., Faber M. H., Rücker W. (2010).
Support structure reliability of offshore wind turbines utilizing an adaptive response surface method. 29th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE 2010). Shanghai. China. June 6-11, 2010.

Thöns S., Faber M. H., Rücker W. (2009)
Buckling reliability of steel shells utilising the Eurocode 3 methodology. JCSS Workshop on Semi-probabilistic FEM calculations. Delft. The Netherlands. 1st and 2nd of December 2009.

Thöns S., Faber M. H., Rücker W., Rohrmann R. G. (2008).
Assessment and monitoring of reliability and robustness of offshore wind energy converters. ESREL 2008 and 17th SRA-Europe Conference, Valencia, Spanien, 22. – 25. September 2008.

Presentations

Thöns S., Rücker W. (2010).
Integrated structural risk assessment for offshore wind turbines. Presentation at the IRIS Summer Academy 2010, September 12th - 15th 2010., Zell am See.

Thöns, S. and Rücker W. (2009).
Assessment and monitoring of reliability and robustness. Presentation on the IRIS Current Practice Workshop, March 30th - April 2nd 2009, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Thöns S., Faber M. H., Rücker W., Rohrmann R. G. (2008).
Robustness and offshore wind energy converters. Workshop on Robustness of Structures. ETH Zürich, 04.-05. Februar 2008.

Thöns S., Rücker W., Rohrmann R. G. (2008).
Application of stochastic methods for condition assessment of wind turbines. Technische Universität Berlin, 07.02.2008.

Thöns S., Rücker W., Rohrmann R. G. (2006).
Sensor concept for condition assessment of the Multibrid M5000 wind turbine. InnoNet Status Seminar. Haus der Wissenschaft, Bremen, 21.10.2006.

Curriculum Vitae