Dynamic optimization design of gear transmission system for wind turbine

The differential equation which governs the behavior of the gear transmission system of 1.5 MW wind turbine is established. The external excitation caused by wind speed fluctuation is discussed and the internal excitation due to time varying mesh stiffness and comprehensive error is also analyzed. The calculating formulations of the harmonic balance method of nonlinear dynamic equations are presented. Then, the multi objective dynamic optimization model is developed to minimize the value of vibration acceleration and the overall volume. The optimization of a practical example using mixed discrete combined programming is performed. The result shows that the proposed method of modeling and optimization design can effectively reduce the wind turbines gearbox vibration levels and weight.     

Dynamics research of wind turbine gearbox with herringbone planetary gear

Based on the method of gear system dynamics and Lagrange equation, a translational-rotational coupling dynamic model of the herringbone planetary gear sets is built and dynamic analysis is carried out. The analysis results have guiding meanings for the design of herringbone planetary gear transmission system. Herringbone gear is treated as two helical gears in the model, and gear train elastic coupling, load inertia and stagger angle between the left and right helical gears is considered. The load sharing coefficients of the system are obtained through calculation, and the impact of stagger angle and coupling torsional stiffness between the left and the right helical gears on the load sharing characteristic is analyzed. The analysis results show that when stagger angle is π/2, the load sharing coefficients are the best, and coupling torsional stiffness between the left and the right helical gears has litter influence on the load sharing coefficients.     

The input load and its influence factors of wind turbine based on variational wind speed

The auto regressive (AR) method is applied to build the model of wind speed in wind field,and with the model, the wind time-history is obtained. The Glauert method is used to calculate time-varying input load,such as the time histories of thrust and torque of the wind turbine under the condition of variational wind speed. Based on statistical analysis,the design loading spectrum and rain flow histogram of the loads are obtained. The effects of wheel blade parameters on the input load under the condition of variational wind speed are analyzed,and the average loads of thrust and torque are obviously affected by the pitch angle. When the pitch angle increases,the loads of thrust and torque both decrease,meanwhile the amplitude of thrust first increases then decreases,while the amplitude of torque decreases monotonously. The thrust is obviously affected by twist and attack angles of blade while the torque is less affected by the twist and attack angles of the blade. The results lay foundations for reliability design,load control of the wind turbine as well as the parameter optimum of the wheel blade aerofoil under the real wind condition.     

Design of networking condition monitoring andfault diagnosis for wind turbine transmission system

In order to solve the incipient fault diagnose problem of the transmission system, a networking condition monitoring and failure diagnosis system based on B/S and C/S hybrid architecture for wind turbine transmission system is designed in the paper. Firstly, the paper analyzes the demands of condition monitoring and fault diagnosis system for wind turbine transmission system, and designs its overall framework and function modules. Then, combining with the data acquisition equipment, by the .NET and SQL Server platform, the paper designs condition monitoring and failure diagnosis system for wind turbine transmission system, which includes the functions of networking data acquisition, remote condition monitoring, signal analysis, fault diagnosis and database as well. The system has been successfully applied to a condition monitoring and fault diagnosis of wind turbine transmission system.     

Dynamic characteristics of multi-stage planetary gear trains in shield machine cutter drive

A purely torsional dynamic model of multi-stage planetary gear trains is developed to investigate the dynamic characteristics of the transmission system in shield machine cutter drive. In the model,phase difference between mesh stiffness and error among each stage caused by different initial mesh positions is considered,and other factors such as component bearing stiffness,time-varying mesh stiffness and error are considered as well. Inherent characteristic analysis shows there are more unique and diverse vibration modes in multi-stage planetary gear trains than in single-stage planetary gear trains. Through dynamic response analysis,time-domain and frequency-domain response of dynamic meshing force of each stage is obtained. As the frequency of exciting force of medium-speed and high-speed stage is in proximity to the natural frequency of the system,harmonic resonance tends to occur,which needs to be paid great attention to. Dynamic factors of each stage are also computed and prepare the ground for the dynamic optimizing design of planetary gear trains.     

Multi-objective dynamic optimization design of high-power wind turbine gearbox

A dynamic model of NGW helical planetary gear transmission for high-power wind turbine gearbox is established by considering these factors as errors of gears and time-varying mesh stiffness by using mass centralized method. Moreover, the random wind velocity is simulated as external seismic excitation making the results more conform to practical condition. And on this basis, this system is optimized for minimum gearbox volume and minimum component torsional acceleration with the restriction of reliability and strength restrain. The result indicates that the optimized parameters make gear transmission lightweight and the dynamic property improved so as to reduing vibration and noised.     

Gearing theory and transmission characteristic for dual drive planetary transmission system with large capacity of shield machine

On the basis of studying shield machine and planetary transmission, to address cutting drive system of shield machine, a novel dual drive planetary transmission system with large capacity is presented, and its principle and structure are analyzed. Through establishing a new kinematical model of the transmission system and analyzing its characteristics, the transmission ratio, rev and torque relationship and changing rules within the system are acquired. By comparing the simplified experimental results with theoretical results,it is shown that the variation is basically the same, which verifies the correctness of the model and analysis method. The high-power dual-driven planetary gear transmission system with great transmission ratio, strong carrying capacity, can perform the function of low-speed and high-torque output, and meet basic requirements of shield machine. It can not only replace the traditional multi-driven transmission system, but also achieve the transmission function in three different types of shield machine.     

Dynamic characteristics analysis of megawatt wind turbine drive train

Since the wind turbines are installed on the flexible support tower, the drive train of the wind turbines runs under severe work conditions with varying wind directions and loads. So its failure rate is high and it is the bottle neck of the wind power development. This work presents a study which takes the coupling effect of oscillating of tower barrel and the twisting vibration of driven train into account. Using the lumped parameter method, a coupled dynamic model for the megawatt wind turbine drive train is built by considering the flexible tower barrel support effects. Then, the dynamic characteristics of the megawatt wind turbine drive train are analyzed. The Campbell chart is used in this research to analyze the potential resonance points. And the potential resonance frequencies between the cutting in and cutting out rotational speed of the drive train are obtained. Finally, Simpack is used to analyze the dynamic characteristics of drive train and verify the correctness of the proposed method.     

Evaluation and analysis on the extreme load of wind turbine blade

According to the international standard of German GL 2010, a wind turbine of 850 kW is applied to the corresponding wind power generation unit and its situation of pneumatic rated power and sympathetic vibration is analyzed with Bladed software. The result verifies the reliability of wind turbine in operation. Further, after all the wind regimes in GL standard are calculated and analyzed comparatively, the extreme wind regimes which mainly influence the aerodynamic performance of the wind blade are obtained, namely, Dlc4.2b, Dlc1.3a, etc. Later on, the evaluation criteria of wind turbine blade taking the load of blade root as standard are established and implemented with the built-in demo data of Bladed software to testify its generality. Then based on the above evaluation criteria, extreme loads of the 850 kW’s blade root is computed and it’s found the extreme swing load is 353 663 N·m, which is 2.5% lower than its designed value. The result verifies the security of the blade in operation and the reliability of the evaluation criteria.     

Contact analysis of MW wind turbine hub and bearing bolt connection

Using large finite element software MSC.Marc/Mentat, the contact analysis of bolted joints parts between the hub and the bearing of wind turbine is conducted for the contact stress suffering from the practical work load. The maximum stress acted on the bolt is obtained, and a detail contact analysis for this bolted joints parts is given. The accurate stress of bolts, bearing and hub is calculated. The FEA contact results are consistent with the theoretical calculation results, and the strength of materials meets the requirements, which means the structure is safe.     

Load modling and analysis of wind turbine under consideringthe space coordinate transformation

Based on coordinate transformation and mechanical analysis, load transformation between blade root and rotor coordinate system for wind turbine is derived.And an analysis model closer to actual working condition is established.Taking a 5 MW wind turbine as analysis object, analyzing results of the new model, traditional simplified model and GH Bladed model are compared, and results are good enough to validate this new model has higher reliability and accuracy.In addition, based on analyzing to load component, through access to instance data of each factor in process of coordinate transformation, the impact of each factor can be accurately analyzed, which is of great significance to control and reduce load.     

Dynamic optimization design of marine gear transmission system

A dynamic model of transmission system for a marine gear is established considering time-varying mesh stiffness, mesh damping and tooth composite error. The solution efficiency is improved by taking contact line length change of gear pair instead of instantaneous gear mesh stiffness change and making mesh damping and tooth surface equivalent to viscous damping. Multi-objective dynamic optimization design is put into practice to improve the marine gear transmission system using vibration acceleration and mass as target function. The results show that the optimization method can effectively reduce the vibration level and mass of marine gear.     

龙卷风作用及核电站结构极端风荷载相关问题研究综述

在结构荷载规范中一般均不考虑龙卷风荷载,但对于某些设防要求极高的重要工程设施,如核电站,则需要考虑可能的龙卷风荷载作用。从龙卷风风场理论模型的研究发展入手,对直接风压荷载的确定、风致飞射物间接作用以及特种工程结构核电站抗龙卷风设计的研究现状进行了归纳总结,指出了龙卷风直接风压计算中考虑轴吸力作用、风场平移运动及风致扭转作用的必要性以及飞射物冲击作用应区别弹体相对刚度及端部形态对作用效果的影响。