Fatigue Life and Strength Analysis of a Main Shaft-to-Hub Bolted Connection in a Wind Turbine

Ji Kang, Haipeng Liu and Deyi Fu
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Ji Kang: State Key Laboratory of Explosion Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
Haipeng Liu: State Key Laboratory of Explosion Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
Deyi Fu: State Key Laboratory of Operation and Control of Renewable Energy & Storage Systems, Renewable Energy Research Center, China Electric Power Research Institute (CEPRI), Beijing 100192, China

Energies, 2018, vol. 12, issue 1, 1-14

Abstract: High-strength bolts are widely used in wind turbines and play a significant role in their operation. In this paper, in order to study the ultimate strength of high-strength bolts in the connection between the hub and main shaft in a 2.5 MW wind turbine with pretension effects, two kinds of finite element models are presented: a solid bolt model and a simplified bolt model. Theoretical calculation was used to compare these models with the results of finite element methods. The ultimate strength analysis results showed that the simplified bolt model was the most efficient and useful in terms of computational time and memory usage. Based on this study, the simplified bolt model was used in the fatigue calculation considering multiple random fatigue loads, and the fatigue life of high-strength bolts was determined by combining the S–N curve of the bolt, based on the Palmgren–Miner Linear damage accumulation hypothesis.

Keywords: wind turbine; finite element analysis; high-strength bolts; fatigue life (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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