作者:Amrit Shankar Verma,Zhiyu Jiang,Zhengru Ren,Zhen Gao,Nils Petter Vedvik
摘要:Most wind turbine blades are assembled piece-by-piece onto the hub of a monopile-type offshore wind turbine using jack-up crane vessels.Despite the stable foundation of the lifting cranes,the mating process exhibits substantial relative responses amidst blade root and hub.These relative motions are combined effects of wave-induced monopile motions and wind-induced blade root motions,which can cause impact loads at the blade root’s guide pin in the course of alignment procedure.Environmental parameters including the wind-wave misalignments play an important role for the safety of the installation tasks and govern the impact scenarios.The present study investigates the effects of wind-wave misalignments on the blade root mating process on a monopile-type offshore wind turbine.The dynamic responses including the impact velocities between root and hub in selected wind-wave misalignment conditions are investigated using multibody simulations.Furthermore,based on a finite element study,different impact-induced failure modes at the blade root for sideways and head-on impact scenarios,developed due to wind-wave misalignment conditions,are investigated.Finally,based on extreme value analyses of critical responses,safe domain for the mating task under different wind-wave misalignments is compared.The results show that although misaligned wind-wave conditions develop substantial relative motions between root and hub,aligned wind-wave conditions induce largest impact velocities and develop critical failure modes at a relatively low threshold velocity of impact.
发文机构:Department of Marine Technology Centre forMarine Operations in Virtual Environments(SFIMOVE) Faculty of Aerospace Engineering Department of Engineering Sciences Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
关键词:WindturbinebladeWind-wavemisalignmentMONOPILEMarineoperationFiniteelementanalysisT-boltconnections
分类号: P73[天文地球—海洋科学]