Towards pitch-scheduled drive train damping in variable-speed, horizontal-axis large wind turbines

Proceedings of the 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, and the European Control Conference, CDC-ECC '05

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 1295-1300

  Dixit, Amit ^a   Suryanarayanan, Shashikanth ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSTS; DAMPING; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; GEAR MANUFACTURE; LOADING; SCHEDULING;

DRIVE TRAIN DAMPER (DTD); FATIGUE LOADING; TORSIONAL MOTION; TRAIN DAMPING;

WIND TURBINES;

EID: 33847220779     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2005.1582337     Document Type: Conference Paper

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