Wind tower structure has relatively simple shape compared to other structures, but due to its characteristics, various and irregular environmental loads are applied. These loads cause vibrations at tower, and can cause failure of the structure if over vibration occurs. Vibration occurred at structures is gradually exhausted by damping of the structures, and if high damping is ensured, the failure of the structure due to over vibration can be prevented. In this study, the vibration reduction effects are to be analyzed through FEM analysis by examining the top displacement, bottom moment, and bottom fatigue damage of the structure depending on damping ratio of the wind tower structure.

Recently, for efficiency increase of the wind turbine tower, turbine has been enlarged and installation location has been transferring to offshore. The importance of the support structure is emphasized when a wind turbine tower is installed on offshore. The support structure is influenced not only by the system operating loads but also by various marine condition loads. Accurate and safe design is essential because the connection between the support structure and the wind tower can be relatively fragile. In particular, the type of foundation pile and sleeve grout connection were adapted from DNV, API, and ISO that are typically used for wind towers, and they have been continuously studied by many researchers. However, the experimental results by researchers are different from the design equations, and it needs to modify the formula according to connection properties and material. Therefore, this study investigates the design equation presented in existing design criteria and the results of research conducted by existing researchers, and analyzes ultimate strength and failure modes.

This study investigates dynamic characteristics of a 2MW wind turbine structure by long-term response monitoring with accelerometers, tiltmeter and strain gauges. The object wind turbine structure is located in Jeju Island, Korea. The natural frequency and damping ratio were evaluated by least-square frequency domain decomposition and random decrement technique using acceleration response data. As a result, it was found that natural frequencies with 1st, 2nd and 3rd modes, and blade passing frequencies with 1P, 2P and 3P were clearly showed from power spectral densities of acceleration reponses. Furthermore, 1st model frequencies were almost constant with increase in standard deviations of acceleration responses. Another notable observation was that when standard deviations of acceleration responses were small, damping ratios showed to diverge. However, when standard deviations of acceleration responses had large values, damping ratios were converged to about 0.5%.

Cylindrical steel shell sections have been applied in various engineering fields particularly in recent installations of wind turbine towers. Hence, many researchers are interested in studying cylindrical steel shell structures. However, studies on the effect of the presence or absence of openings are insufficient. Thus, the design criteria for the opening as well as the behavior of wind turbine tower are not clearly presented. Therefore, this study examines the ultimate strength and the behavior of wind tower in consideration of openings, presence of stiffeners, changes in opening width, and thickness variation of stiffeners. ABAQUS, a universal finite element analysis program, was used in to conduct this research. Finally, the results of this study can be a reference for the design and production of wind towers with openings.

Recently, wind power has received attention as one of remarkable renewable energy resources, and worldwide researches about wind power are actively being proceeded. Wind turbine tower has a major role for safety in the wind turbine systems. It is necessary for design tower structure to consider various environmental conditions. Earthquake, as one of the such environmental loads, is ground motion that applied to bottom of the tower structure and has a possibility of critical effect to the wind tower structure. There are various ways for seismic analysis, but design specifications that are in use do not suggest detailed method for seismic analysis. In this study, seismic responses are analyzed through different ways and the adequacy of seismic design methods is examined.

풍력발전 타워는 높은 세장비를 갖는 형상으로 인해 바람에 의해 발생하는 횡하중에 취약한 구조를 가지고 있기 때문에 바람은 풍력발전 타워를 설계하는데 있어서 중요한 설계요소 중 하나라고 할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 타워 운송 편의성 향상을 위해 설계된 8각 및 6각 단면형상을 가지는 조립식 강관 타워 및 일반 원형 강관 타워의 일정 높이 이상에서부터 4개의 작은 기둥으로 분리되는 형상을 가지는 멀티기둥 강관 타워에 대한 2차원 단면모형 풍동실험과 3차원 모형 풍동실험을 수행하여 각 형상별 풍력계수를 산정하여 그 특성을 비교하였다. 또한 풍동실험 축소모형에 대한 CFD 해석을 수행하여 산정된 풍력계수값의 신뢰성을 확인하였으며, 마지막으로 실제스케일 풍력타워에 대한 CFD 해석을 수행하여 각 형상별 특성을 분석하였다.

Wind turbine tower has a very important role in wind turbine system as one of the renewable energy that has been attracting attention worldwide recently. Due to the growth of wind power market, advance and development of offshore wind system and getting huger capacity is inevitable. As a result, the vibration is generated at wind turbine tower by receiving constantly dynamic loads such as wind load and wave load. Among these dynamic loads, the mechanical load caused by the rotation of the blade is able to make relatively periodic load to the wind turbine tower. So natural frequency of the wind turbine tower should be designed to avoid the rotation frequency of the rotor according to the design criteria to avoid resonance. Currently research of the wind turbine tower, the precise research does not be carried out because of simplifying the structure of the other upper and lower. In this study, the effect of blade modeling differences are to be analyzed in natural frequency of wind turbine tower.

Internally confined hollow reinforced concrete (ICH RC) wind power towers were designed for various turbines sizes. Their cross sections were designed to have equal diameters to those of general steel wind power towers corresponding 3.6MW and 5.0MW turbines. And also, the sections with the average diameter of 3.6MW and 5.0MW turbines were designed. For the determined diameters, several cross sections were designed for various hollow ratios. The designed sections were set to have almost equal longitudinal reinforcement ratios. The performance analyses for the designed cross sections were carried out and the analysis results showed that the ICH RC wind power tower had enough strength for the required design loads.

Natural frequency characteristic of Wind turbine tower is important for designing of tower due to guarantee of structural safety of tower. In GL specification, natural frequency of tower should be designed by consideration of blade rotational frequency. Natural frequency characteristic of tower could be changed by mass ratio of RNA-tower, modeling method of blade and angle of blade in idling condition. In this research, natural frequency of tower is analysed by ABAQUS and compared it result according to tower dimension.

This study analyzes performance-cost ratio of composite(GFRP) wind-towers by fiber reinforcement angle and determines their optimal fiber angle. The finite element models for composite structures using the ANSYS program described in this paper is attractive not only because it shows excellent accuracy in analysis but also it shows the effect of the geometrical combination. New results reported in this paper are focused on the significant effects of the cost for various parameters, such as thicknesses of outer shells and stiffeners. From the numerical examples, optimal fiber angles were determined as 80°∼90°.

본 연구에서는 부유식 해상 풍력 발전기의 로터 축과 타워 상단에 작용하는 동적 하중을 계산하였다. 부유식 해상 풍력 발전기는 부유식 플랫폼, 타워, 낫셀, 허브, 그리고 3개의 블레이드로 구성되어 있는 다물체계 시스템이다. 본 연구에서는 이들 모두를 각각 6 자유도를 갖는 강체로 가정하였다. 부유식 해상 풍력 발전기의 타워는 플랫폼에 고정되어 있고, 3개의 블레이드는 허브에 고정되어 있다. 낫셀은 타워의 상부에 회전 관절로 연결되어 있으며, 블레이드와 허브로 구성된 로터는 낫셀과 회전 관절로 연결되어 있다. 본 연구에서 부유식 풍력 발전기의 운동 방정식은 다물체계 동역학을 기반으로 한 운 동방정식 구성 방법 중 하나인 recursive formulation을 이용하여 구성하였다. 외력으로는 부유식 플랫폼에 작용하는 비선 형 유체 정역학 힘과 선형 유체 동역학적 힘 그리고 계류력을 고려하였고, 블레이드에 작용하는 풍력을 고려하였다. 이와 같이 구성한 운동 방정식을 해를 구하여 풍력 발전기를 구성하고 있는 각 요소들의 각 연결 부위에 작용하고 있는 구속력 을 계산하였다. 그 결과, 동적 상태에서 풍력 발전기에 작용하는 하중은 정적 상태에서 풍력 발전기에 작용하는 하중보다 큰 것을 알 수 있으며, 따라서 부유식 풍력 발전기의 구조해석의 입력 값으로서 정적 하중보다 동적 하중을 고려하는 것이 더 엄격한 해석 기준이라고 할 수 있다.

풍력 발전 분야는 앞으로 에너지 대란에 있어서 이를 해결해 줄 중요한 돌파구 중의 하나이다. 지금까지 연구되어 온 풍력발전기의 Tower에 대한 분야는 정적인 해석에 그치고 있다. 본 연구에서는 타워의 형태를 크게 두 가지 Tubular Type와 Jacket Type으로 정하고 이것에 대한 각각의 특성을 파악하며, 그 경향을 찾아내 이를 실제 설계 및 제작에 적용하고자 하였다. 본 논문에서는 타워의 모드별 고유진동수를 파악하고 이것에 대한 특성을 연구하였으며, 작동 중 발생하는 하중과 해상 설치 시 작용하는 부가질량의 영향에 대하여 고려하여 그 특성을 파악하였고 두가지 유형의 타워의 특성을 비교하여 그 경향을 예측 할 수 있었다.

A standard design section of a FRP DSCT wind power tower supporting 3MW was suggested and designed through AutoDSCT and CoWiTA programs. The thicknesses of the FRP tubes were optimized and by using the parameters of designed tower, the performance of the new type wind tower was evaluated via FAST program.

Authors investigated the fatigue bond performance on the grouted joint connection of wind tower. High strength cementeous grout has 140MPa of a compressive strength was incerted in the gap of small scaled steel tube simulated the wind tower joint. The stress level was 65 and 74% of static strength that is 35MPa, respectevely. From the test, each specimens endured the repeated loads up to 2,000,000 cycles.

Based on the study of rapid construction method for concrete tower for offshore wind farms, it was found that the precast concrete segment was effective to achieve short term construction on bad weather condition. Also 20m length of segment was selected for tower installation to use same crane carrying nacelle.

Probabilistic risk of an offshore wind turbine tower-monopile foundation structure is investigated using in this paper. It can consider both soil-structure-fluid coupled effect in the system and a large amount of variability in both ocean environmental load and soil resistance.

대형화되고 있는 풍력발전 터빈에 대응하여 내부구속 중공 철근콘크리트(ICH RC; Internally Confined Hollow Reinforced Concrete) 구조를 적용한 풍력타워 제안되고 연구되고 있다. 이에 기존의 3.6MW 터빈과 5.0MW 터빈에 대응하는 ICH RC 풍력타워 단면이 설계된바 있다. 하지만, 풍력발전 터빈은 큰 질량을 갖는데 비해 타워는 세장비가 매우 크기 때문에, 풍하중 등의 횡하중이 작용할 때 발생하는 변위가 증가함에 따라, 터빈의 자중에 의한 대변위 효과에 따라 실제 횡력에 저항할 수 있는 모멘트 저항성능은 감소한다. 따라서 안전한 풍력발전 타워의 설계를 위해서는 대변위 효과를 고려하여 실제 횡력에 저항할 수 있는 타워의 모멘트 성능을 계산하는 것이 중요하다. 이에 본 연구에서는 기존 설계된 단면에 대해 터빈 자중에 의한 대변위 효과를 고려하여 모멘트-횡변위 해석을 수행하였다. 해석결과, 터빈 자중에 의한 대변위 효과로 인하여 풍력타워의 실 모멘트 저항 성능 감소분이 상당하며, 안전한 풍력타워의 설계를 위해서는 대변위 효과가 반드시 고려되어야 함을 알 수 있었다.