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Wind Turbine Loads

Rotor thrust, tower loads and heeling moments for fixed and floating wind.

Class B
Wind turbine
Thrust
Tower loads
Floating wind

What this expert provides

The Wind Turbine Loads expert gives the loads a wind turbine puts on its support structure, mooring and stability: the thrust and power curves, the operating, extreme and parked rotor forces, the tower drag, and the tower base shear and moment with P-delta and pitch inertia.

Expert Profile

Works from reference turbines (NREL 5 MW, DTU 10 MW, IEA 15 MW) or your own rotor data, with IEC 61400-1 and 61400-3 wind conditions. Gives the thrust and heeling moment to the mooring and stability experts, the tower base loads to the structures expert, and the mean pitch of a floating unit. Coupled aero-hydro-servo-elastic simulation (OpenFAST, Bladed) remains the design basis.

Key Capabilities

  • Thrust and power curves from reference or stated turbines
  • Operating, extreme and parked rotor loads (IEC 61400-1 / -3)
  • Tower base shear and moment with P-delta and inertia
  • Heeling moment and mean pitch for floating units
  • Hand-off of loads to mooring, stability and structures