TY  - JOUR
N2  - Compared to fixed-bottom wind turbines, offshore floating wind turbines (OFWTs) are subject to more prominent forced vibrations that require control measures. Considering the limited space within the nacelle, this paper proposed a novel methodology for designing a tuned mass dampers (TMD) installed inside the tower. To achieve an optimal design, a 4-degree-of-freedom simplify dynamic model is established to predict the vibration characteristics of spar OFWTs quickly and accurately. A new TMD configuration installed inside the tower is proposed to reduce the effect of space limitation and to determine the stroke limitation Based on the proposed methodology, the stiffness and damping of the TMD are designed and optimized, and then the detailed structural parameters are calculated. The comparison results show that, the proposed TMD achieves a maximum peak suppression rate of 90.67% in tower top fore-aft deformation power spectral density, which is 19.92% higher than that of the TMD designed by the formula method. The proposed TMD can effectively address the problem caused by the space limitation within nacelle, and provide superior vibration suppression for spar OFWTs.
ID  - discovery10189606
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2024.117412
TI  - Novel tuned mass dampers installed inside tower of spar offshore floating wind turbines
Y1  - 2024/03/20/
AV  - restricted
KW  - Offshore floating wind turbine
KW  -  Tuned mass damper
KW  -  Simplified dynamic model
KW  -  Stroke limitation
KW  -  Vibration suppression
PB  - Elsevier
JF  - Ocean Engineering
A1  - Lin, Jiahua
A1  - Wang, Yangwei
A1  - Zhang, Guanchen
A1  - Liu, Yuanchang
A1  - Zhang, Jun
N1  - This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher?s terms and conditions.
VL  - 301
ER  -