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Measurement of the Natural Frequency and Mode Shape of Prefabricated Concrete Wind Turbine Towers via the DIC Method
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(1.Department of Bridge Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China; 2.ZRD New Energy Solutions Co., Ltd., Shanghai 201108, China; 3.State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Manufacturing Equipment and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, Hubei Province, China; 4.Dongfang Electric Wind Power Co., Ltd., Deyang 618000, Sichuan Province, China; 5.Wuhan Sinorock Monitor&Control Technology Co., Ltd., Wuhan 430223, Hubei Province, China; 6.Tongna Testing & Certification Group Co., Ltd., Shanghai 200331, China)

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    Resonance between wind turbine towers and rotors can severely compromise the safety of wind turbines. This study proposes a measurement method based on the digital image correlation (DIC) technique for determining the natural frequencies of prestressed concrete towers. The approach employs high-pass filtering and wavelet transform to reconstruct vibration signals, followed by the use of Welch’s method to calculate the power spectrum of the reconstructed signals. The natural frequencies are identified from the spectral peaks, and the first- and second-order modes of the tower are determined through singular value decomposition (SVD). The measured first-order natural frequencies of the concrete tower under three operating conditions—turbine during stoppage, stable operation, and transition from stoppage to stable operation—are 0.2631 Hz, 0.2636 Hz, and 0.2782 Hz, respectively, whereas the second-order natural frequencies are 0.8624 Hz, 1.0397 Hz, and 0.8374 Hz, respectively. The first-order mode shapes correspond to unidirectional bending of the tower, and the second-order mode shapes correspond to reverse bending. The results demonstrate that the DIC method is an effective, convenient, and safe approach for measuring the natural frequencies of wind turbine towers, with significant practical value.

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Zhenwei Guo, Kangle Chen, Zhongze Sun, Lei Hong, Yan Xu, Sihang Wei Measurement of the Natural Frequency and Mode Shape of Prefabricated Concrete Wind Turbine Towers via the DIC Method. Prestress Technology 2024,2(04):26-42. 10.59238/j. pt.2024.04.002

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  • Received:December 15,2024
  • Revised:December 28,2024
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  • Online: January 03,2025
  • Published: December 30,2024