Cyclic flexural test and loading protocol for steel wind turbine tower columns
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tws.2021.108093
Abstract: Abstract A round hollow steel section (HSS) is generally used in a wind turbine tower column. Experimental studies on the cyclic flexural behavior of round HSS columns with large diameter-to-thickness (D/t) ratios are very limited.… read more here.
Keywords: steel; wind turbine; cyclic flexural; turbine tower ... See more keywords
Seismic Vibration Mitigation of Wind Turbine Tower Using Bi-Directional Tuned Mass Dampers
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DOI: 10.1155/2020/8822611
Abstract: Wind turbines have been increasingly erected in earthquake regions to harvest abundant wind energy. However, the wind turbine tower is slender and lightly damping, which exhibits high susceptibility to earthquake-induced vibration. It is challenging to… read more here.
Keywords: vibration; mass; turbine tower; mitigation ... See more keywords
Seismic performance analysis of a wind turbine tower subjected to earthquake and ice actions
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0247557
Abstract: Sea ice is one of the main loads acting on a wind turbine tower in areas prone to icing, and this threatens safe working life of the wind turbine tower. In our study, a simplified… read more here.
Keywords: turbine tower; wind turbine; ice;
Hybrid Wind Turbine Towers Optimization with a Parallel Updated Particle Swarm Algorithm
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DOI: 10.3390/app11188683
Abstract: The prestressed concrete–steel hybrid (PCSH) wind turbine tower, characterized by replacing the lower part of the traditional full-height steel tube wind turbine tower with a prestressed concrete (PC) segment, provides a potential alterative solution to… read more here.
Keywords: pcsh wind; wind; algorithm; turbine tower ... See more keywords