A prognostic method for fault detection in wind turbine drivetrains

Engineering Failure Analysis

Volumn 42, Issue , 2014, Pages 324-336

  Nejad, Amir Rasekhi ^a   Odgaard, Peter Fogh ^b   Gao, Zhen ^a   Moan, Torgeir ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Condition monitoring; Drivetrain; Fault detection; Wind turbine gearbox

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR VELOCITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONDITION MONITORING; WIND TURBINES;

BEARING FAULT; DRIVETRAIN; ERROR FUNCTION; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; FREQUENCY SPECTRA; MULTI-BODY DYNAMIC SIMULATION; VELOCITY ERRORS; WIND TURBINE GEARBOXES;

FAULT DETECTION;

EID: 84899976920     PISSN: 13506307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfailanal.2014.04.031     Document Type: Article

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