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MATEC Web of Conferences
Volume 24, 2015
EVACES’15, 6th International Conference on Experimental Vibration Analysis for Civil Engineering Structures
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Article Number | 04005 | |
Number of page(s) | 8 | |
Section | Structural monitoring | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/20152404005 | |
Published online | 19 October 2015 |
Automated modal tracking and fatigue assessment of a wind turbine based on continuous dynamic monitoring
Construct-ViBest, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto - Portugal
a Corresponding author: gustavo.oliveira@fe.up.pt
The paper describes the implementation of a dynamic monitoring system at a 2.0 MW onshore wind turbine. The system is composed by two components aiming at the structural integrity and fatigue assessment. The first component enables the continuous tracking of modal characteristics of the wind turbine (natural frequency values, modal damping ratios and mode shapes) in order to detect abnormal deviations of these properties, which may be caused by the occurrence of structural damage. On the other hand, the second component allows the estimation of the remaining fatigue lifetime of the structure based on the analysis of the measured cycles of structural vibration.
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