The Flexible Cable Deformation Effect of a Prestressed Tuned Mass Damper on Vibration Control for Wind Turbine Towers

Abstract

Larger megawatt wind turbines are of significant height. The wind turbine tower (WTT) can suffer excessive vibration under external dynamic excitation, so an additional vibration control device is needed. Taking a novel prestressed tuned mass damper (PS-TMD) as the research object, its nonlinear vibration control performance induced by a flexible cable deformation effect was investigated. The dynamic coefficient amplitudes at two fixed points were derived based on the principle of virtual work, and results showed that the vibration amplitude considering flexible cable deformation is smaller than that of the linear PS-TMD system. For harmonic response, the numerical simulation of a 3.2 MW WTT indicated that vibration migration performance of the nonlinear PS-TMD is better than that of the linear PS-TMD. The Wilson-[Formula: see text] method was applied to analyze the vibration control effect under three fatigue and two ultimate wind loads. Results showed that the nonlinear PS-TMD can decrease the vibration amplitude more than the linear PS-TMD, and the vibration mitigation performance under the fatigue wind loads is slightly better than ultimate wind loads.

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