VIBRATION CONTROL OF A WIND TOWER USING HYBRID MASS DAMPER
Hybrid mass damper; Structural Control, Wind Turbine; Linear Quadratic Regulator; Tuned Mass Damper.
The increase in energy consumption leads to a great expansion of the world energy generation with various energy sources, among them renewable sources are increasingly highlighted. Wind energy is one of the sources that has been gaining more and more spotlight in the hall of generators, which consequently brings more studies on the structural reliability of wind towers that can cause undesirable levels of vibrations that can compromise the safety and reliability of the structure. This work proposes the application of a structural control system, in a way of an hybrid mass damper (HMD), installed in a wind tower, subjected to seismic and wind loads. Two models are analyzed: considering or not the flapwise effect on the blades. Furthermore, it is proposed to compare the system response for different situations: system without control, passive control, active control and hybrid controllers (Instantaneous Optimal Control (IOC), Proportional Integral Derivative (PID) and Classic Optimum (LQR)). Numerical-computational simulations were performed using the software MAPLESOFT, MATLAB with toolbox Simulink. The numerical results obtained were analyzed and compared with each other, and it was observed that the IOC was the better in reducing the dynamic response of the tower. Although the results of this work are based on simplified models with preliminary results, they may become a basis for more advanced studies in sophisticated models and full-scale applications.