Quality Evaluation of Wind Turbine Roller Bearing Profile in the Ultra-long Flexible Blade

Abstract

In order to accurately measure and evaluate the quality of the roller profile of the ultra-long flexible blade bearing, an error evaluation model is established for the arc segment and the straight segment of the roller based on the least square method, and then an overall quality evaluation model is proposed based on these two error models. Through the simulation of a standard wind turbine cylindrical roller bearing, it is found that the quality evaluation model established in this work can effectively measure and evaluate the contour line of the wind turbine bearing’s roller. The overall absolute error is 0.0319 mm, which is consistent with the set random error. The overall quality evaluation model is also valid for other types of bearings commonly used in the wind turbine, which include arc and straight segments, and can be used to evaluate the error quality of the roller profile of wind turbine bearings.