Articles | Volume 9, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-799-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-799-2024
Research article
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05 Apr 2024
Research article |  | 05 Apr 2024

Sensitivity of fatigue reliability in wind turbines: effects of design turbulence and the Wöhler exponent

Shadan Mozafari, Paul Veers, Jennifer Rinker, and Katherine Dykes

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Interactive discussion

Status: closed

Comment types: AC – author | RC – referee | CC – community | EC – editor | CEC – chief editor | : Report abuse
  • RC1: 'Comment on wes-2023-47', Anonymous Referee #1, 23 Jun 2023
  • RC2: 'Comment on wes-2023-47', Anonymous Referee #2, 15 Sep 2023
  • AC1: 'Comment on wes-2023-47', Shadan Mozafari, 12 Oct 2023
  • AC2: 'Comment on wes-2023-47', Shadan Mozafari, 12 Oct 2023

Peer review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision | EF: Editorial file upload
AR by Shadan Mozafari on behalf of the Authors (20 Dec 2023)  Author's response   Author's tracked changes   Manuscript 
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (03 Jan 2024) by Raimund Rolfes
RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (10 Jan 2024)
RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (19 Jan 2024)
ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (24 Jan 2024) by Raimund Rolfes
AR by Shadan Mozafari on behalf of the Authors (03 Feb 2024)  Author's response   Author's tracked changes   Manuscript 
ED: Publish as is (05 Feb 2024) by Raimund Rolfes
ED: Publish as is (07 Feb 2024) by Carlo L. Bottasso (Chief editor)
AR by Shadan Mozafari on behalf of the Authors (12 Feb 2024)  Author's response   Manuscript 
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Short summary
Turbulence is one of the main drivers of fatigue in wind turbines. There is some debate on how to model the turbulence in normal wind conditions in the design phase. To address such debates, we study the fatigue load distribution and reliability following different models of the International Electrotechnical Commission 61400-1 standard. The results show the lesser importance of load uncertainty due to turbulence distribution compared to the uncertainty of material resistance and Miner’s rule.
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