Vibration control of spar‐type floating offshore wind turbine towers using a tuned mass‐damper‐inerter

S Sarkar, B Fitzgerald - Structural Control and Health …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This paper investigates the use of a passive tuned mass‐damper‐inerter (TMDI) for vibration
control of spar‐type floating offshore wind turbine towers. The TMDI is a relatively new …

[HTML][HTML] Fluid inerter for optimal vibration control of floating offshore wind turbine towers

S Sarkar, B Fitzgerald - Engineering Structures, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper proposes the use of a tuned mass damper fluid-inerter (TMDFI) for vibration
control of spar-type floating offshore wind turbine towers. The use of an inerter in parallel …

Inerter-enhanced tuned mass damper for vibration damping of floating offshore wind turbines

Z Zhang, C Høeg - Ocean Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the use of an inerter-enhanced vibration absorber, the rotational
inertia double tuned mass damper (RIDTMD), for damping in-plane vibrations of a floating …

Active tuned mass damper for damping of offshore wind turbine vibrations

ML Brodersen, AS Bjørke, J Høgsberg - Wind Energy, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
An active tuned mass damper (ATMD) is employed for damping of tower vibrations of fixed
offshore wind turbines, where the additional actuator force is controlled using feedback from …

Passive control of floating offshore wind turbine nacelle and spar vibrations by multiple tuned mass dampers

VN Dinh, B Basu - Structural Control and Health Monitoring, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This paper investigates the use of single and multiple tuned mass dampers (TMDs) for
passive control of edgewise vibrations of nacelle/tower and spar of spar‐type floating wind …

Tuned mass-damper-inerter (TMDI) for suppressing edgewise vibrations of wind turbine blades

Z Zhang, B Fitzgerald - Engineering Structures, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper proposes the use of a tuned mass-damper-inerter (TMDI) for the mitigation of
edgewise blade vibrations in wind turbines. The hollow nature of the wind turbine blades is …

Vibration mitigation in offshore wind turbines via tuned mass damper

M Ghassempour, G Failla, F Arena - Engineering Structures, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper deals with vibration mitigation via tuned mass damper in bottom-fixed, horizontal-
axis offshore wind turbines. Focusing on a baseline 5-MW turbine mounted on a monopile …

The impact of passive tuned mass dampers and wind–wave misalignment on offshore wind turbine loads

GM Stewart, MA Lackner - Engineering structures, 2014 - Elsevier
Offshore wind turbines experience complex external loading from a variety of sources,
especially wind and waves. To be economical, offshore wind turbine must operate reliably …

Three-dimensional vibration control of offshore floating wind turbines using multiple tuned mass dampers

V Jahangiri, C Sun - Ocean Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
Offshore floating wind turbines (FWT) subjected to misaligned wind and wave loadings
experience extreme three-dimensional vibrations which will increase the fatigue loadings on …

[HTML][HTML] Enhancing the reliability of floating offshore wind turbine towers subjected to misaligned wind-wave loading using tuned mass damper inerters (TMDIs)

B Fitzgerald, J McAuliffe, S Baisthakur, S Sarkar - Renewable Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) are the largest rotating structures on the earth.
Dynamically sensitive structures such as these must be protected in these environments to …