Wind turbulence impacts to onshore and offshore wind turbines gearbox fatigue life

Yingning Qiu; Yili Xu; Jiawei Li; Yanhui Feng; Wenxian Yang; David Infield

doi:10.1049/cp.2014.0903

Wind turbulence impacts to onshore and offshore wind turbines gearbox fatigue life

Yingning Qiu, Yili Xu, Jiawei Li, Yanhui Feng, Wenxian Yang, David Infield

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Abstract

As a critical mechanical component of a wind turbine, gearbox failures mainly attribute to cumulative fatigue. Therefore, understanding and quantifying fatigue impacts to wind turbine operational life is important for its design optimization. According to ISO 6336, gearbox service life under variable load can be calculated and the damage due to cumulative fatigue can be quantified. While wind turbine is exposed to random wind speed with certain statistical distribution and different turbulence scales, which becomes the main impacts of transient gearbox load variation. By introducing different turbulence scale this paper quantifies gearbox load spectrum variation and cumulative fatigue damage to predict gearbox service life. The result obtained in this paper can be used for offshore wind turbine gearbox design optimization.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	3rd Renewable Power Generation Conference (RPG 2014)
Publisher	Institution of Engineering and Technology
Number of pages	5
Edition	CP651
ISBN (Print)	9781849199179
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1049/cp.2014.0903
Publication status	Published - 22 Dec 2014
Externally published	Yes
Event	3rd Renewable Power Generation Conference - Naples, Italy Duration: 24 Sep 2014 → 25 Sep 2014 Conference number: 3

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Conference	3rd Renewable Power Generation Conference
Abbreviated title	RPG 2014
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Naples
Period	24/09/14 → 25/09/14

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Qiu, Y, Xu, Y, Li, J, Feng, Y, Yang, W & Infield, D 2014, Wind turbulence impacts to onshore and offshore wind turbines gearbox fatigue life. in 3rd Renewable Power Generation Conference (RPG 2014). CP651 edn, 6993296, IET Conference Publications, no. CP651, vol. 2014, Institution of Engineering and Technology, 3rd Renewable Power Generation Conference, Naples, Italy, 24/09/14. https://doi.org/10.1049/cp.2014.0903

Wind turbulence impacts to onshore and offshore wind turbines gearbox fatigue life. / Qiu, Yingning; Xu, Yili; Li, Jiawei et al.

3rd Renewable Power Generation Conference (RPG 2014). CP651. ed. Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2014. 6993296 (IET Conference Publications; Vol. 2014, No. CP651).

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