Office/Division Program
TAP
Project Number
651
Category
Research Initiation Date (Award Date)
Research Performing Activity
Applied Physical Sciences Corp
Research Principal Investigator
Dr. Martin Pollack
Research Contracting Agency
Description
This effort was primarily an analytical study of resonance coincidence and its impact on the structural design characteristics of offshore wind turbines. It tapped classical methods of fluid dynamics, structural dynamics, and mechanics of materials to assess methods of preventing resonance coincidence and minimizing its consequences. It also assessed the accelerated fatigue that would result from resonance coincidence, using first order estimates of the load encountered by the wind turbine. It used data and information on offshore turbines available in the open literature.