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Pengxing YI,Peng HUANG,Tielin SHI
《机械工程前沿(英文)》 2016年 第11卷 第4期 页码 388-402 doi: 10.1007/s11465-016-0404-z
Wind turbine gearbox (WTG), which functions as an accelerator, ensures the performance and service life of wind turbine systems. This paper examines the distinctive modal properties of WTGs through finite element (FE) and experimental modal analyses. The study is performed in two parts. First, a whole system model is developed to investigate the first 10 modal frequencies and mode shapes of WTG using flexible multi-body modeling techniques. Given the complex structure and operating conditions of WTG, this study applies spring elements to the model and quantifies how the bearings and gear pair interactions affect the dynamic characteristics of WTGs. Second, the FE modal results are validated through experimental modal analyses of a 1.5 WM WTG using the frequency response function method of single point excitation and multi-point response. The natural frequencies from the FE and experimental modal analyses show favorable agreement and reveal that the characteristic frequency of the studied gearbox avoids its eigen-frequency very well.
关键词: wind turbine gearbox modal analysis finite element analysis modal frequency bearing equivalence
Tacholess order-tracking approach for wind turbine gearbox fault detection
Yi WANG, Yong XIE, Guanghua XU, Sicong ZHANG, Chenggang HOU
《机械工程前沿(英文)》 2017年 第12卷 第3期 页码 427-439 doi: 10.1007/s11465-017-0452-z
Monitoring of wind turbines under variable-speed operating conditions has become an important issue in recent years. The gearbox of a wind turbine is the most important transmission unit; it generally exhibits complex vibration signatures due to random variations in operating conditions. Spectral analysis is one of the main approaches in vibration signal processing. However, spectral analysis is based on a stationary assumption and thus inapplicable to the fault diagnosis of wind turbines under variable-speed operating conditions. This constraint limits the application of spectral analysis to wind turbine diagnosis in industrial applications. Although order-tracking methods have been proposed for wind turbine fault detection in recent years, current methods are only applicable to cases in which the instantaneous shaft phase is available. For wind turbines with limited structural spaces, collecting phase signals with tachometers or encoders is difficult. In this study, a tacholess order-tracking method for wind turbines is proposed to overcome the limitations of traditional techniques. The proposed method extracts the instantaneous phase from the vibration signal, resamples the signal at equiangular increments, and calculates the order spectrum for wind turbine fault identification. The effectiveness of the proposed method is experimentally validated with the vibration signals of wind turbines.
关键词: wind turbine variable-speed operating conditions Vold-Kalman filtering tacholess order tracking
Yun KONG, Tianyang WANG, Zheng LI, Fulei CHU
《机械工程前沿(英文)》 2017年 第12卷 第3期 页码 406-419 doi: 10.1007/s11465-017-0419-0
Planetary transmission plays a vital role in wind turbine drivetrains, and its fault diagnosis has been an important and challenging issue. Owing to the complicated and coupled vibration source, time-variant vibration transfer path, and heavy background noise masking effect, the vibration signal of planet gear in wind turbine gearboxes exhibits several unique characteristics: Complex frequency components, low signal-to-noise ratio, and weak fault feature. In this sense, the periodic impulsive components induced by a localized defect are hard to extract, and the fault detection of planet gear in wind turbines remains to be a challenging research work. Aiming to extract the fault feature of planet gear effectively, we propose a novel feature extraction method based on spectral kurtosis and time wavelet energy spectrum (SK-TWES) in the paper. Firstly, the spectral kurtosis (SK) and kurtogram of raw vibration signals are computed and exploited to select the optimal filtering parameter for the subsequent band-pass filtering. Then, the band-pass filtering is applied to extrude periodic transient impulses using the optimal frequency band in which the corresponding SK value is maximal. Finally, the time wavelet energy spectrum analysis is performed on the filtered signal, selecting Morlet wavelet as the mother wavelet which possesses a high similarity to the impulsive components. The experimental signals collected from the wind turbine gearbox test rig demonstrate that the proposed method is effective at the feature extraction and fault diagnosis for the planet gear with a localized defect.
关键词: wind turbine planet gear fault feature extraction spectral kurtosis time wavelet energy spectrum
Pengxing YI,Lijian DONG,Tielin SHI
《机械工程前沿(英文)》 2014年 第9卷 第4期 页码 354-367 doi: 10.1007/s11465-014-0319-5
To improve the dynamic performance and reduce the weight of the planet carrier in wind turbine gearbox, a multi-objective optimization method, which is driven by the maximum deformation, the maximum stress and the minimum mass of the studied part, is proposed by combining the response surface method and genetic algorithms in this paper. Firstly, the design points’ distribution for the design variables of the planet carrier is established with the central composite design (CCD) method. Then, based on the computing results of finite element analysis (FEA), the response surface analysis is conducted to find out the proper sets of design variable values. And a multi-objective genetic algorithm (MOGA) is applied to determine the direction of optimization. As well, this method is applied to design and optimize the planet carrier in a 1.5 MW wind turbine gearbox, the results of which are validated by an experimental modal test. Compared with the original design, the mass and the stress of the optimized planet carrier are respectively reduced by 9.3% and 40%. Consequently, the cost of planet carrier is greatly reduced and its stability is also improved.
关键词: planet carrier multi-objective optimization genetic algorithms wind turbine gearbox modal experiment
Weak characteristic information extraction from early fault of wind turbine generator gearbox
Xiaoli XU, Xiuli LIU
《机械工程前沿(英文)》 2017年 第12卷 第3期 页码 357-366 doi: 10.1007/s11465-017-0423-4
Given the weak early degradation characteristic information during early fault evolution in gearbox of wind turbine generator, traditional singular value decomposition (SVD)-based denoising may result in loss of useful information. A weak characteristic information extraction based on µ-SVD and local mean decomposition (LMD) is developed to address this problem. The basic principle of the method is as follows: Determine the denoising order based on cumulative contribution rate, perform signal reconstruction, extract and subject the noisy part of signal to LMD and µ-SVD denoising, and obtain denoised signal through superposition. Experimental results show that this method can significantly weaken signal noise, effectively extract the weak characteristic information of early fault, and facilitate the early fault warning and dynamic predictive maintenance.
关键词: wind turbine generator gearbox µ-singular value decomposition local mean decomposition weak characteristic information extraction early fault warning
Zhaohui DU, Xuefeng CHEN, Han ZHANG, Yanyang ZI, Ruqiang YAN
《机械工程前沿(英文)》 2017年 第12卷 第3期 页码 333-347 doi: 10.1007/s11465-017-0435-0
The gearbox of a wind turbine (WT) has dominant failure rates and highest downtime loss among all WT subsystems. Thus, gearbox health assessment for maintenance cost reduction is of paramount importance. The concurrence of multiple faults in gearbox components is a common phenomenon due to fault induction mechanism. This problem should be considered before planning to replace the components of the WT gearbox. Therefore, the key fault patterns should be reliably identified from noisy observation data for the development of an effective maintenance strategy. However, most of the existing studies focusing on multiple fault diagnosis always suffer from inappropriate division of fault information in order to satisfy various rigorous decomposition principles or statistical assumptions, such as the smooth envelope principle of ensemble empirical mode decomposition and the mutual independence assumption of independent component analysis. Thus, this paper presents a joint subspace learning-based multiple fault detection (JSL-MFD) technique to construct different subspaces adaptively for different fault patterns. Its main advantage is its capability to learn multiple fault subspaces directly from the observation signal itself. It can also sparsely concentrate the feature information into a few dominant subspace coefficients. Furthermore, it can eliminate noise by simply performing coefficient shrinkage operations. Consequently, multiple fault patterns are reliably identified by utilizing the maximum fault information criterion. The superiority of JSL-MFD in multiple fault separation and detection is comprehensively investigated and verified by the analysis of a data set of a 750 kW WT gearbox. Results show that JSL-MFD is superior to a state-of-the-art technique in detecting hidden fault patterns and enhancing detection accuracy.
关键词: joint subspace learning multiple fault diagnosis sparse decomposition theory coupling feature separation wind turbine gearbox
Review of the damage mechanism in wind turbine gearbox bearings under rolling contact fatigue
Yun-Shuai SU, Shu-Rong YU, Shu-Xin LI, Yan-Ni HE
《机械工程前沿(英文)》 2019年 第14卷 第4期 页码 434-441 doi: 10.1007/s11465-018-0474-1
关键词: rolling contact fatigue (RCF) white etching area (WEA) white etching crack (WEC) adiabatic shear band (ASB)
Effect of friction coefficients on the dynamic response of gear systems
Lingli JIANG, Zhenyong DENG, Fengshou GU, Andrew D. BALL, Xuejun LI
《机械工程前沿(英文)》 2017年 第12卷 第3期 页码 397-405 doi: 10.1007/s11465-017-0415-4
The inevitable deterioration of the lubrication conditions in a gearbox in service can change the tribological properties of the meshing teeth. In turn, such changes can significantly affect the dynamic responses and running status of gear systems. This paper investigates such an effect by utilizing virtual prototype technology to model and simulate the dynamics of a wind turbine gearbox system. The change in the lubrication conditions is modeled by the changes in the friction coefficients, thereby indicating that poor lubrication causes not only increased frictional losses but also significant changes in the dynamic responses. These results are further demonstrated by the mean and root mean square values calculated by the simulated responses under different friction coefficients. In addition, the spectrum exhibits significant changes in the first, second, and third harmonics of the meshing components. The findings and simulation method of this study provide theoretical bases for the development of accurate diagnostic techniques.
关键词: dynamic response friction coefficient wind loads wind turbine gearbox
Condition monitoring of a wind turbine generator using a standalone wind turbine emulator
Himani,Ratna DAHIYA
《能源前沿(英文)》 2016年 第10卷 第3期 页码 286-297 doi: 10.1007/s11708-016-0419-5
关键词: condition monitoring (CM) wind turbine emulator (WTE) wind turbine generator (WTG) maximum power point tracking (MPPT) tip speed ratio (TSR) rotor faults stator faults
Review of aeroelasticity for wind turbine: Current status, research focus and future perspectives
Pinting ZHANG, Shuhong HUANG
《能源前沿(英文)》 2011年 第5卷 第4期 页码 419-434 doi: 10.1007/s11708-011-0166-6
Optimization design of spar cap layup for wind turbine blade
Jie ZHU, Xin CAI, Pan PAN, Rongrong GU
《结构与土木工程前沿(英文)》 2012年 第6卷 第1期 页码 53-56 doi: 10.1007/s11709-012-0147-9
关键词: wind turbine blade spar cap layup optimization design blade mass
Effects of elastic support on the dynamic behaviors of the wind turbine drive train
Shuaishuai WANG, Caichao ZHU, Chaosheng SONG, Huali HAN
《机械工程前沿(英文)》 2017年 第12卷 第3期 页码 348-356 doi: 10.1007/s11465-017-0420-7
The reliability and service life of wind turbines are influenced by the complex loading applied on the hub, especially amidst a poor external wind environment. A three-point elastic support, which includes the main bearing and two torque arms, was considered in this study. Based on the flexibilities of the planet carrier and the housing, a coupled dynamic model was developed for a wind turbine drive train. Then, the dynamic behaviors of the drive train for different elastic support parameters were computed and analyzed. Frequency response functions were used to examine how different elastic support parameters influence the dynamic behaviors of the drive train. Results showed that the elastic support parameters considerably influenced the dynamic behaviors of the wind turbine drive train. A large support stiffness of the torque arms decreased the dynamic response of the planet carrier and the main bearing, whereas a large support stiffness of the main bearing decreased the dynamic response of planet carrier while increasing that of the main bearing. The findings of this study provide the foundation for optimizing the elastic support stiffness of the wind turbine drive train.
关键词: wind turbine drive train elastic support dynamic behavior frequency response function
Characterization of aerodynamic performance of wind-lens turbine using high-fidelity CFD simulations
Islam HASHEM, Aida A. HAFIZ, Mohamed H. MOHAMED
《能源前沿(英文)》 页码 661-682 doi: 10.1007/s11708-020-0713-0
关键词: shroud diffuser-augmented wind turbine (DAWT) Betz limit aerodynamics computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
A complete modeling and simulation of DFIG based wind turbine system using fuzzy logic control
Abdelhak DIDA,Djilani BENATTOUS
《能源前沿(英文)》 2016年 第10卷 第2期 页码 143-154 doi: 10.1007/s11708-016-0402-1
关键词: wind turbine generation system (WTGS) doubly-fed induction generator (DFIG) maximum power point tracking (MPPT) vector control (VC) fuzzy logic controller (FLC)
Nengsheng BAO, Weidou NI,
《能源前沿(英文)》 2010年 第4卷 第2期 页码 205-210 doi: 10.1007/s11708-009-0073-2
关键词: framework design hybrid energy system wind farm gas turbine power plants
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Numerical analysis and experimental investigation of modal properties for the gearbox in wind turbine
Pengxing YI,Peng HUANG,Tielin SHI
期刊论文
Tacholess order-tracking approach for wind turbine gearbox fault detection
Yi WANG, Yong XIE, Guanghua XU, Sicong ZHANG, Chenggang HOU
期刊论文
Fault feature extraction of planet gear in wind turbine gearbox based on spectral kurtosis and time wavelet
Yun KONG, Tianyang WANG, Zheng LI, Fulei CHU
期刊论文
genetic algorithms based structural optimization and experimental investigation of the planet carrier in windturbine gearbox
Pengxing YI,Lijian DONG,Tielin SHI
期刊论文
Weak characteristic information extraction from early fault of wind turbine generator gearbox
Xiaoli XU, Xiuli LIU
期刊论文
Multiple fault separation and detection by joint subspace learning for the health assessment of windturbine gearboxes
Zhaohui DU, Xuefeng CHEN, Han ZHANG, Yanyang ZI, Ruqiang YAN
期刊论文
Review of the damage mechanism in wind turbine gearbox bearings under rolling contact fatigue
Yun-Shuai SU, Shu-Rong YU, Shu-Xin LI, Yan-Ni HE
期刊论文
Effect of friction coefficients on the dynamic response of gear systems
Lingli JIANG, Zhenyong DENG, Fengshou GU, Andrew D. BALL, Xuejun LI
期刊论文
Condition monitoring of a wind turbine generator using a standalone wind turbine emulator
Himani,Ratna DAHIYA
期刊论文
Review of aeroelasticity for wind turbine: Current status, research focus and future perspectives
Pinting ZHANG, Shuhong HUANG
期刊论文
Optimization design of spar cap layup for wind turbine blade
Jie ZHU, Xin CAI, Pan PAN, Rongrong GU
期刊论文
Effects of elastic support on the dynamic behaviors of the wind turbine drive train
Shuaishuai WANG, Caichao ZHU, Chaosheng SONG, Huali HAN
期刊论文
Characterization of aerodynamic performance of wind-lens turbine using high-fidelity CFD simulations
Islam HASHEM, Aida A. HAFIZ, Mohamed H. MOHAMED
期刊论文
A complete modeling and simulation of DFIG based wind turbine system using fuzzy logic control
Abdelhak DIDA,Djilani BENATTOUS
期刊论文