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Vibration control of small horizontal axis wind turbine blade with shape memory alloy

  • Mouleeswaran, Senthil Kumar (Department of Production Engineering, PSG college of Technology) ;
  • Mani, Yuvaraja (Department of Mechanical Engineering, PSG college of Technology) ;
  • Keerthivasan, P. (Department of Production Engineering, PSG college of Technology) ;
  • Veeraragu, Jagadeesh (Department of Mechanical Engineering, PSG college of Technology)
  • Received : 2017.09.07
  • Accepted : 2018.01.19
  • Published : 2018.03.25
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Abstract

Vibrational problems in the domestic Small Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines (SHAWT) are due to flap wise vibrations caused by varying wind velocities acting perpendicular to its blade surface. It has been reported that monitoring the structural health of the turbine blades requires special attention as they are key elements of a wind power generation, and account for 15-20% of the total turbine cost. If this vibration problem is taken care, the SHAWT can be made as commercial success. In this work, Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) wires made of Nitinol (Ni-Ti) alloys are embedded into the Glass Fibre Reinforced Polymer (GFRP) wind turbine blade in order to reduce the flapwise vibrations. Experimental study of Nitinol (Ni-Ti) wire characteristics has been done and relationship between different parameters like current, displacement, time and temperature has been established. When the wind turbine blades are subjected to varying wind velocity, flapwise vibration occurs which has to be controlled continuously, otherwise the blade will be damaged due to the resonance. Therefore, in order to control these flapwise vibrations actively, a non-linear current controller unit was developed and fabricated, which provides actuation force required for active vibration control in smart blade. Experimental analysis was performed on conventional GFRP and smart blade, depicted a 20% increase in natural frequency and 20% reduction in amplitude of vibration. With addition of active vibration control unit, the smart blade showed 61% reduction in amplitude of vibration.

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