A review of wind turbine main bearings:  design, operation, modelling, damage  mechanisms and fault detection

Hart, Edward; Clarke, Benjamin; Nicholas, Gary; Kazemi Amiri, Abbas; Stirling, James; Carroll, James; Dwyer-Joyce, Rob; McDonald, Alasdair; Long, Hui

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-5-105-2020

Articles | Volume 5, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-5-105-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-5-105-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 5, issue 1

Review article

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15 Jan 2020

Review article |

| 15 Jan 2020

A review of wind turbine main bearings: design, operation, modelling, damage mechanisms and fault detection

Edward Hart, Benjamin Clarke, Gary Nicholas, Abbas Kazemi Amiri, James Stirling, James Carroll, Rob Dwyer-Joyce, Alasdair McDonald, and Hui Long

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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SC1: 'Reviewer comments', Jonathan Keller, 28 May 2019
- AC1: 'Response to Jonathan Keller', Edward Hart, 04 Jun 2019
RC1: 'Referees comments on paper by Hart et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 20 Jun 2019
- AC2: 'Response to referee #1', Edward Hart, 03 Jul 2019
RC2: '14102019 - BE- Review', Babak Eftekharnejad, 14 Oct 2019
- AC3: 'Response to Babak Eftekharnejad', Edward Hart, 21 Oct 2019
AC4: 'Response to Editor', Edward Hart, 21 Oct 2019

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Edward Hart on behalf of the Authors (19 Nov 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (28 Nov 2019) by Athanasios Kolios

ED: Publish as is (29 Nov 2019) by Gerard J.W. van Bussel (Chief editor)

AR by Edward Hart on behalf of the Authors (06 Dec 2019)

Short summary

This paper presents a review of existing theory and practice relating to main bearings for wind turbines. Topics covered include wind conditions and resulting rotor loads, main-bearing models, damage mechanisms and fault detection procedures.