Wind turbine towers are large structures designed to withstand the unique loading conditions imposed on them by the turbine’s nacelle and dynamic forces from the rotating blades. Observations and noise measurements of a particular wind turbine showed high noise levels at approximately 48 Hz, which could not be explained from the usual known potential noise sources. Correlated far field noise me...

27 28 The simulation of center-pivot performance has been the subject of research 29 efforts since the 1960s. Center-pivot models frequently use empirical equations 30 relating pressure and sprinkler radial application pattern. Individual, stationary 31 water application patterns are overlapped and the resulting water application is 32 mapped in the field. Such models use constant tower angular...

This article is the second in a two-paper series presenting results from wind tunnel and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations of flow and dispersion in an idealized model urban neighborhood. Pollutant dispersion results are presented and discussed for a model neighborhood that was characterized by regular city blocks of three-story row houses with a single 12-story tower located at th...

This paper presented an overview on the dynamic analysis and control of the transmission tower-line system in the past forty years. The challenges and future developing trends in the dynamic analysis and mitigation of the transmission tower-line system under dynamic excitations are also put forward. It also reviews the analytical models and approaches of the transmission tower, transmission lin...

The transmission line towers are one of the important life line structures in the distribution of power from the source to the various places for several purposes. The predominant external loads which act on these towers are wind and earthquake loads. In this present study tower is analyzed using Indian Standards IS: 875:1987(Wind Load), IS: 802:1995(Structural steel), IS:1893:2002 (Earthquake)...

By field investigation, it is found that the lower section of transmission tower body is the critical position for insuring tower’s integral stability under strong wind. For improving tower’s wind-resistant performance, the scheme of adding diaphragms at mid-height of diagonal members in lower tower body was proposed and its static effectiveness was researched by static loading tests. Taking th...

The normalized radar backscatter (σ) in scatterometer measurements over water is theorized to go to zero below a threshold wind speed due to insufficient friction between the wind and water to create capillary waves from which the radar signal scatters. Evidence of the threshold wind speed and a hysteresis effect have been observed in airship and wave tank data. The threshold wind speed is addi...

Wind turbines are increasingly becoming significant components of power systems. To evaluate competing wind energy conversion technologies, a real-time Wind Turbine Emulator, which emulates the dynamic torque produced by an actual turbine has been developed. This is necessary since the real world performance of a wind turbine, subjected to variable wind conditions is more difficult to evaluate ...

The Burj Dubai Project will be the tallest structure ever built by man; when completed the tower will be more than 700 meters tall and more than 160 floors. The early integration of aerodynamic shaping and wind engineering considerations played a major role in the architectural massing and design of this residential tower, where mitigating and taming the dynamic wind effects was one of the most...

The present study proposes a novel tower-control technique that couples linear control feedback theory with an online time-frequency analysis of the tower vibrations, with the aim to widen the research area of situational control of wind turbines. Numerical simulations were conducted for two 5MW-class offshore wind turbines, and the performance of the proposed control method has been tested in ...