Evaluating passive structural control of tidal turbines
Fu, Song and Johnstone, Cameron and Clarke, Joe (2016) Evaluating passive structural control of tidal turbines. In: 3rd Asian Wave and Tidal Energy Conference, 2016-10-24 - 2016-10-28, Marina Bay Sands. (In Press)
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Abstract
The research focus of this project is to design a methodology to reduce fatigue and peak structural loading experienced by support structures used for tidal stream converters. The methodology is based on the dynamic analysis of a towermonopile support structure for offshore wind turbines. A tuned mass damper (TMD) is implemented in the nacelle in fore-aft direction by correcting the discrete equation of motion of a fixed tidal turbine. Parameters such as added mass and viscous damping were thus incorporated in the mass and damping matrix to study the effects of using a TMD on a tidal energy converter. Both frequency and time domain analysis are presented to compare the TMD effect in different conditions. Moreover a sensitivity analysis in soil effect and different tower-monopile shape is presented. The result shows the influence of the TMD for a fixed tidal turbine when the structure suffers an instant impact and under unsteady continuous wave-current coupled forces.
ORCID iDs
Fu, Song ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0121-9154, Johnstone, Cameron ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5171-1230 and Clarke, Joe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4783-5107;-
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Item type: Conference or Workshop Item(Paper) ID code: 60280 Dates: DateEvent24 August 2016Published24 August 2016AcceptedNotes: (c) 2016 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other users, including reprinting/ republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted components of this work in other works. Subjects: Technology > Mechanical engineering and machinery Department: Faculty of Engineering > Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 24 Mar 2017 12:16 Last modified: 06 Oct 2024 00:45 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/60280