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Title

Inflow parameter effects on wind turbine tower cyclic loading

Authors

Jamie C. Smith, University of Windsor
Rupp Carriveau, University of Windsor
David S.K. Ting, University of Windsor

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-1-2014

Publication Title

Wind Engineering

Volume

38

Issue

5

First Page

477

Last Page

488

Abstract

Wind turbine towers are fatigue-critical structures subjected to a variety of atmospheric wind regimes at onshore installations. At a commercial wind farm in Southwestern Ontario, the structural steel supporting tower of a multi-megawatt horizontal-axis turbine has been instrumented with a fiber Bragg grating strain gauge array. A nearby meteorological mast allows wind conditions to be classified on the basis of horizontal turbulence intensity and vertical wind shear. Data has been collected over a measurement campaign spanning multiple months, and a sample of the towerstate SAs cyclic loading history has been compiled. Comparisons are drawn between accumulated hourly loading cycle spectra for operation across different upwind inflow parameters.

DOI

10.1260/0309-524X.38.5.477

ISSN

0309524X

E-ISSN

2048402X

Recommended Citation

Smith, Jamie C.; Carriveau, Rupp; and Ting, David S.K.. (2014). Inflow parameter effects on wind turbine tower cyclic loading. Wind Engineering, 38 (5), 477-488.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/mechanicalengpub/197