Research on semi-active vibration reduction of offshore wind turbine structure combined eddy current theory with tuned mass dampers

Junni Jiang, Xiaofeng Dong, Jijian Lian and Yuan Jia

Renewable Energy, 2024, vol. 234, issue C

Abstract: At present, the offshore wind power gradually shows a development trend towards the profound ocean with characteristic of larger capacity, higher tower and longer blades. Therefore, the offshore wind turbine (OWT) is more vulnerable to extreme loads and may lead to the negative influence of structural vibration safety. In this research, a new semi-active eddy current tuned mass damper (SEC-TMD) was proposed for the vibration control of OWT structures and its vibration reduction effect under multiple kinds of dynamic loads was also discussed. Firstly, taking one actual 3.0 MW OWT supported by bucket foundation as object, the SEC-TMD was designed based on the linear quadratic optimal control (LQR) algorithm and bounded Hrovat optimal control algorithm in order to obtain the optimal control force of structural vibration systems. The relationship between damping coefficient and magnetic conductivity spacing was further fitted to achieve variable damping control of SEC-TMD. Secondly, the theoretical model of 3.0 MW OWT structure installed with SEC-TMD was established and the effectiveness of the established theoretical model was verified through the comparison on modal analysis between the theoretical calculations and measured data identification. Finally, the vibration reduction effect of SEC-TMD on the measured OWT structure under wind-wave, seismic and vibration amplification conditions was analyzed and compared with the results calculated from the other passive dampers including EC-TMD and TLCD. It is shown that the maximum reduction percentage of peak value for vibration displacement and acceleration on the tower top can respectively reach 31.93 %, 44.11 %, 30.20 % and 54.57 %, 33.94 %, 31.75 % under three above conditions. Comparing with EC-TMD and TLCD, the better vibration reduction effect indicates that the proposed SEC-TMD has good engineering application value for the vibration suppression of OWT.

Keywords: Offshore wind turbine; Field measurement; Vibration reduction; Eddy current damper; Tuned mass damper (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2024.121185

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