Structural failure analysis of wind turbines impacted by super typhoon ...
Feb 1, 2016 · The current study, with an aim to partly fill the gap between academic research and the fast-growing offshore wind energy industry, conducts an investigation on a coastal wind farm which was catastrophically damaged by super typhoon Usagi in 2013.
Failure investigation on a coastal wind farm damaged by super typhoon …
Dec 1, 2015 · This study presented a failure investigation on a wind farm which is located on the southeast coast of Mainland China and was severely damaged by two super typhoons: i.e., Dujuan in 2003 and Usagi in 2013.
Representative structural failure of wind turbines caused by Usagi…
In 2013, Super typhoon Usagi on category 4 impacted a wind farm on the southeast coast of China with a dramatic change of wind direction and a maximum wind speed of 57 m/s at a 10-m...
Failure investigation on a coastal wind farm damaged by super typhoon …
Dec 1, 2015 · The super typhoon Rammasun in 2014 caused 3 wind turbines of Wenchang wind farm in Hainan province to suffer from structural failure, and blades of another 2 wind turbines were separated...
Assessing code-based design wind loads for offshore wind …
Aug 1, 2023 · For instance, the attack of typhoon Usagi in 2013 caused severe structural damage to 19 of 25 wind turbines of an onshore wind farm in Guangdong, China. According to the accident investigation and study [7], the fracture of wind turbine blades and collapse of towers are the main damage forms in this accident.
Photograph showing blade damage due to Typhoon Usagi [23].
Context 1. ... on-site photographs of the Honghaiwan wind farm (as shown in Figure 3) show that super Typhoon Usagi caused the fracture at the load-carrying box beam of the blades. Eleven...
Typhoon Resistance Analysis of Offshore Wind Turbines: A …
Mar 10, 2022 · Typhoon damage is a key factor in the design and operation of offshore wind turbines, and it is directly related to the stability and safety of wind turbines and the economy of wind farms. This paper provides an overview of the recent developments of typhoon resistance design and strategy for offshore wind turbines and puts forward the ...
Structural failure analysis of wind turbines impacted by super typhoon …
Feb 1, 2016 · TLDR. It is found that surface momentum flux levels off as the wind speeds increase above hurricane force, contrary to surface flux parameterizations that are currently used in a variety of modelling applications, including hurricane risk assessment and prediction of storm motion, intensity, waves and storm surges. Expand.
Typhoon Resistance Analysis of Offshore Wind - ProQuest
Typhoon damage is a key factor in the design and operation of offshore wind turbines, and it is directly related to the stability and safety of wind turbines and the economy of wind farms. This paper provides an overview of the recent developments of typhoon resistance design and strategy for offshore wind turbines and puts forward the ...
In the present study, the authors investigated the strength of an offshore wind turbine jacket foundation under typhoon conditions. First, the typhoon environmental conditions were collected for a 50-year return period (i.e. 10-4 probability of failure), which corresponds to the ‘normal’ safety class described by DNV.