Wind Energy Science
Wind Energy Science
WES
Articles | Volume 5, issue 4
Articles | Volume 5, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-5-1743-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Special issue:
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-5-1743-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 5, issue 4
Research article
 | 
17 Dec 2020
Research article |  | 17 Dec 2020

Fatigue lifetime calculation of wind turbine blade bearings considering blade-dependent load distribution

Oliver Menck, Matthias Stammler, and Florian Schleich

Viewed

Total article views: 5,148 (including HTML, PDF, and XML)
HTML PDF XML Total BibTeX EndNote
3,244 1,755 149 5,148 150 174
  • HTML: 3,244
  • PDF: 1,755
  • XML: 149
  • Total: 5,148
  • BibTeX: 150
  • EndNote: 174
Views and downloads (calculated since 06 Feb 2020)
Cumulative views and downloads (calculated since 06 Feb 2020)

Viewed (geographical distribution)

Total article views: 5,148 (including HTML, PDF, and XML) Thereof 4,866 with geography defined and 282 with unknown origin.
Country # Views %
  • 1
1
 
 
 
 
Latest update: 24 Nov 2025
Download
Short summary
Blade bearings of wind turbines experience unusual loads compared to bearings in other industrial applications, which adds some difficulty to the application of otherwise well-established calculation methods, like fatigue lifetime. As a result, different methods for such calculations can be found in the literature. This paper compares three approaches of varying complexity and comes to the conclusion that the simplest of the methods is very inaccurate compared to the more complex methods.
Read more
Share
Special issue
Wind Energy Science Conference 2019
Altmetrics
Final-revised paper
Preprint