1. Reliability analysis of blade of the offshore wind turbine supported by the floating foundation
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Chang-shui Xiao, Hengdong Bian, Liqin Liu, Zunfeng Du, Weichen Jin, and Ying Guo
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Turbine blade ,Blade (geometry) ,business.industry ,Foundation (engineering) ,Floating wind turbine ,02 engineering and technology ,Structural engineering ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,Turbine ,Displacement (vector) ,law.invention ,Stress (mechanics) ,Offshore wind power ,020303 mechanical engineering & transports ,0203 mechanical engineering ,law ,Ceramics and Composites ,0210 nano-technology ,business ,Geology ,Civil and Structural Engineering - Abstract
The reliabilities of the offshore wind turbine blades supported by the floating foundation are studied. The motion of the floating wind turbine is calculated by the Fast software, and the structure model of the blade is established by the Ansys software. The failure probabilities of the blade root overload, the blade root fatigue and the excessive displacement of the blade tip are calculated. The fixed wind turbine blades and the floating wind turbine blades are compared to investigate the influences of the floating foundation motion on the blade reliabilities. The results show that, the failure probability of blades supported by the floating foundation is greater than that supported by the fixed foundation. The floating wind turbine blades with different piezoelectric material are analyzed to investigate the influences of the piezoelectric material on the blade reliabilities. It is shown that for the blade with piezoelectric material, the stress of blade root and the displacement of blade tip both decrease, and the probabilities of fatigue failure and overloaded of the blade root decrease significantly.
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- 2019
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