Mitigating the Structural Vibrations of Wind Turbines Using Tuned Liquid Column Damper Considering Soil-Structure Interaction

Authors

Tadhg Buckley, Dynamical Systems and Risk Laboratory, School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University College Dublin, Ireland; Marine and Renewable Energy Ireland (MaREI) Centre, University College Dublin, Ireland.
Phoebe Watson, Arup, Dublin, Ireland.
Paul Cahill, Marine and Renewable Energy Ireland (MaREI) Centre, University College Cork, Ireland.
Vesna Jaksic, Sustainable Infrastructure Research & Innovation Group (SIRIG); Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Department, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland.Follow
Vikram Pakrashi, Dynamical Systems and Risk Laboratory, School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University College Dublin, Ireland; Marine and Renewable Energy Ireland (MaREI) Centre, University College Dublin, Ireland.

ORCID

0000-0002-0178-5546

Abstract

This paper considers the potential of using a Tuned Liquid Column Damper (TLCD) to reduce structural vibrations of a wind turbine tower. The effect of TLCD on wind turbine towers, including the soil-structure interactions for a monopile foundation was modelled theoretically and scaled laboratory experiments were carried out to validate these results. The tower of the turbine is represented as a Euler beam with a set of springs at the boundary to simulate the soil-structure interaction. TLCD design was carried out using such a model and the reduction in tower vibrations due to the deployment of TLCD was then examined for various loading conditions in the frequency and the time domain. The efficiency of TLCDs for reducing structural vibrations was investigated for tuned and detuned conditions. The response of a small-scale model was simulated along with that of a full-scale turbine and parametric studies around the variations of inputs related to uncertainties were performed. Experiments were carried out on a scaled model turbine to examine the effectiveness of the TLCD. The practicalities of installing a TLCD in a full-scale turbine were examined.

Disciplines

Civil and Environmental Engineering

DOI

10.1016/j.renene.2017.12.090

Publication Details

Renewable Energy

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd.

Publisher

Elsevier Ltd.

Funder Name 1

Science Foundation Ireland

Award Number 1

12/RC/2302

Resource Type

journal article

License Condition

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.

Recommended Citation

Buckley, T., Watson, P., Cahill, P., Jaksic, V. and Pakrashi, V. (2018) 'Mitigating the structural vibrations of wind turbines using tuned liquid column damper considering soil-structure interaction', Renewable Energy, 120, pp. 322-341. doi: 10.1016/j.renene.2017.12.090