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https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-5-1743-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-5-1743-2020
Research article
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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

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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.
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