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Behavior Of Wind Turbine Towers And Blades Under Tornado Wind Fields, Mohamed Abugazia
Behavior Of Wind Turbine Towers And Blades Under Tornado Wind Fields, Mohamed Abugazia
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The installation rate of wind turbines around the world is increasing significantly. Therefore, wind turbine farms are constructed in plentiful wind resources areas that put a considerable number of wind turbine towers under severe wind conditions. As a result, failures due to unexpected wind loads on either the blades or the tower are increasing. In addition, wind turbines are designed to resist synoptic wind loads as per the current guidelines, which do not consider high-intensity wind (HIW) events such as tornadoes. The built-in-house numerical code “HIW-WT” has been developed in this study to model wind turbines under three-dimensional wind fields …