Multibody modelling of varying complexity for modal behaviour analysis of wind turbine gearboxes

Renewable Energy

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3098-3113

  Helsen, Jan ^a   Vanhollebeke, Frederik ^a   Marrant, Ben ^a   Vandepitte, Dirk ^a   Desmet, Wim ^a  

^a Department of Mechanical Engineering ^*  (Belgium)

Author keywords

Drive train; Flexible multibody; Gear dynamics; Wind turbine

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOUR ANALYSIS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM; DRIVE TRAIN; FINITE ELEMENT MODELS; FLEXIBLE COMPONENTS; FLEXIBLE MULTIBODY; GEAR DYNAMICS; GEARBOX DESIGN; MODELLING AND SIMULATIONS; MODELLING TECHNIQUES; MULTI-BODY; MULTI-BODY MODELLING; MULTI-BODY MODELS; PLANET CARRIERS; PLANETARY RINGS; RESEARCH EFFORTS; SIX DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM; STRUCTURAL MODES; TURBINE DESIGN CODES;

DESIGN; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PLANETS; SATELLITES; WIND TURBINES;

WIND POWER;

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; RESEARCH WORK; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 79957837005     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2011.03.023     Document Type: Article

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