Title
Inflow parameter effects on wind turbine tower cyclic loading
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.
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