Modal decomposition of the dynamic response of wind turbine during one year of continuous monitoring.

Summary: The analysis of the dynamic behavior of wind turbines is a complex task. These structures present diverse configurations, dependent on the wind conditions. Consequently, the dynamic behavior is highly dependent on their operating conditions. This paper analyzes the dynamic behavior of a 2.0 MW wind turbine during 1 year of operation. In that sense, post‐processing tools aiming to decompose the measured vibration response of structures into modal responses, originally developed to be applied with the SSI‐DATA algorithm, are implemented and applied. Initially, an original data processing that permits the application of these tools to two additional output‐only modal identification algorithms is introduced. Then, these tools are applied for the first time to data collected in a wind turbine during a period of 1 year. The obtained results evidenced the effectiveness of the proposed post‐processing procedure and the distinct dynamic response of the wind turbine according to its operating conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]