• Wind and Structures
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• 제25권6호
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• pp.569-588
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• 2017

The aim of this paper is to present a method to obtain the dynamic response of a wind turbine tower in time domain by means of the generation of time series and to estimate the associated fatigue damage by means of a Rainflow counting algorithm. The proposed method is based on assuming the vortex shedding is a bidimensional phenomena and on following a classical modal superposition method to obtain the structure dynamic response. Four different wind turbine tower geometric configurations have been analyzed in a range of usual wind velocities and covering extreme wind velocities. The obtained results have shown that, depending on the turbulence intensity and the mean wind velocity, there are tower geometric configurations more advantageous from the fatigue load standpoint. Consequently, the presented model can be utilized to define assembly strategies oriented to fatigue damage minimization.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2005년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.64-67
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• 2005

A vibration monitoring system for a small size wind turbine (WIT) is established and operated. The monitoring system consists of monolithic integrated chip accelerometer for vibration monitoring, anemometers for wind data acquisition and auxiliary sensors for atmospheric data. Using the monitoring system, vibration response of a 6kW stand alone WIT generator is investigated. Acceleration data of the WIT tower under various operation condition is acquired in real time using LabVIEW and the data are remotely transferred from the test site to the laboratory in school by internet. Vibration response characteristics of the tower structure are diagnosed in the aspect of stability of W/T. Wind data and electrical power performance are also investigated with the stability problem.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2005년도 창립60주년 기념 추계 학술대회
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• pp.191.2-191.2
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• 2005

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2009년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.78-83
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• 2009

In this study, computer applied engineering (CAE) techniques are fully used to conduct structural and dynamic analyses of a whole huge wind turbine system including composite blades, tower and nacelle. For this study, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is used to predict aerodynamic loads of the rotating wind-turbine blade model. Multi-body dynamic structural analyses are conducted based on the non-linear finite element method (FEM) by using super-element method for composite laminates blade. Three-dimensional finite element model of a wind turbine system is constructed including power train(main shaft, gear box, coupling, generator), bedplate and tower. The results for multi-body dynamic simulations on the wind turbine's critical operating conditions are presented in detail.

• Composites Research
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.54-61
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• 2012

본 연구에서 유리섬유/에폭시 복합재를 이용한 2 MW 풍력터빈 시스템 타워에 대한 특정 구조설계 절차가 하중 분석, 단계적 설계 변경 통한 최적 구조설계 및 해석을 통해 새로이 제안되었다. 최적 타워 설계는 풍력터빈 시스템 단가의 20% 이상을 차지하는 중요한 구조물 이다. 타워 구조 설계 시, 풍하중, 블레이드, 나셀, 타워 등에 의한 자중, 블레이드 공기 역학적 항력 등의 3가지 하중이 고려된다. 초기의 복합재 구조설계는 단순 설계기법과 혼합설계기법을 병용 하였다. 상용 유한요소 해석 프로그램인 MSC.NASTRAN/PATRAN을 통하여 구조적 안전성을 검토 하였다. 최종 제안한 타워 형상은 모든 설계 요구조건을 충족함을 확인하였다.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제47권3호
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• pp.177-186
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• 2019

풍력 타워는 수직형 풍력터빈의 성능을 향상시키기 위해 사용되어왔다. 하지만 올바르게 설계되지 않은 풍력 타워는 오히려 풍력터빈의 성능을 저하시킬 수 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 풍력 타워의 최적화 연구를 수행하였다. 이를 위하여 다음과 같이 6가지의 설계변수가 선택되었다. 즉, 가이드 벽의 외부 및 내부 반경, 스플리터의 적용 여부, 스플리터의 내부 반경, 가이드 벽의 개수 및 원주각도가 선정되었다. 최적화를 위한 목적함수는 풍력타워 내에 설치된 수직형 풍력터빈에서의 주기적인 평균 토크가 사용되었으며, 최적화 과정에서 지엽적인 최적화 결과를 피하기 위하여 실험계획법, 유전자알고리즘 및 인공신경망기법이 사용되었다. 인공신경망은 세대의 증가에 따라 지속적으로 향상하였으며, 수직 풍력터빈의 성능은 독립운전에 비하여 최적화된 풍력 타워 내에서 두 배 이상 향상되었다.

• Ocean Systems Engineering
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.287-312
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• 2023

The global performance of a 15 MW floating offshore wind turbine, a newly designed semisubmersible floating foundation with multiple heave plates by CNOOC, is investigated with two independent turbine-floater-mooring coupled dynamic analysis programs CHARM3D-FAST and OrcaFlex. The semisubmersible platform hosts IEA 15 MW reference wind turbine modulated for VolturnUS-S and hybrid type (chain-wire-chain with clumps) 3×2 mooring lines targeting the water depth of 100 m. The numerical free-decay simulation results are compared with physical experiments with 1:64 scaled model in 3D wave basin, from which appropriate drag coefficients for heave plates were estimated. The tuned numerical simulation tools were then used for the feasibility and global performance analysis of the FOWT considering the 50-yr-storm condition and maximum operational condition. The effect of tower flexibility was investigated by comparing tower-base fore-aft bending moment and nacelle translational accelerations. It is found that the tower-base bending moment and nacelle accelerations can be appreciably increased due to the tower flexibility.

• 신재생에너지
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.54-63
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• 2005

A critical issue in the field of the rotor aerodynamics is the treatment of the wake. The wake is of primary importance in determining overall aerodynamic behavior, especially, a wind turbine blade includes the unsteady airloads problem. In this study, the wake generated by blades are depicted by a free wake model to analyse unsteady loading on blade and a new free wake model named Finite Vortex Element(FVE hereafter) is devised in order to include a wake-tower interaction. In this new free wake model, blade-wake-tower interaction is described by cutting a vortex filament when the filament collides with a tower. This FVE model is compared with a conventional free wake model and verified by a comparison with NRELand SNU wind tunnel model. A comparison with NREL and SNU data shows validity and effectiveness of devised FVE free wake model and an efficient.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제21권6호
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• pp.657-675
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• 2015

In this study, the feasibility of vibration-based damage detection methods for the wind turbine tower (WTT) structure is evaluated. First, a frequency-based damage detection (FBDD) is outlined. A damage-localization algorithm is visited to locate damage from changes in natural frequencies. Second, a mode-shape-based damage detection (MBDD) method is outlined. A damage index algorithm is utilized to localize damage from estimating changes in modal strain energies. Third, a finite element (FE) model based on a real WTT is established by using commercial software, Midas FEA. Several damage scenarios are numerically simulated in the FE model of the WTT. Finally, both FBDD and MBDD methods are employed to identify the damage scenarios simulated in the WTT. Damage regions are chosen close to the bolt connection of WTT segments; from there, the stiffness of damage elements are reduced.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2009년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.416-422
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• 2009

Offshore wind turbine are subjected to more various loads than general land structures and the stability of structures is supported by the piles driven deeply in the subsoil. So it is more important for offshore structures to consider seabed soil-structure interaction than land structures. And the response of a fixed offshore structure supported by pile foundations is affected by resist dynamics lateral loading due to wave forces and ocean environmental loads. In this study, offshore wind tower response are calculated in the time domain using a finite element package(ANSYS 11.0). Several parameters affecting the vibration characteristics of the natural frequency and mode shape and the tower response have been investigated.