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Modal Testing and Model Validation Issues of SWiFT Turbine Tests

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Sandia National Laboratories is developing the Scaled Wind Farm Technology center to enable rapid, cost-efficient testing and development of transformative wind energy technology. ATA Engineering, Inc., was contracted as part of this effort to dynamically characterize a number of components and assemblies to be used at the Scaled Wind Farm Technology center.

This paper documents several of the tests that were performed and describes the approaches, results, and challenges encountered during testing. The test articles that were dynamically characterized are the Vestas V27 wind turbine blades, Vestas V27 towers in a free-free boundary condition, and Vestas V27 towers in a bolted condition.

Sandia is a multiprogram laboratory operated by Sandia Corporation a Lockheed Martin Company for the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract DE-AC04-94AL85000

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  1. Marinone T, Napolitano K, Cloutier D, LeBlanc B (2014) Comparison of multiple mass property estimation techniques on SWiFT Vestas 27 wind turbine nacelles and hubs. In: Proceedings of 32nd IMAC, Orlando

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  1. ATA Engineering, San Diego, CA, 92130, USA

    Timothy Marinone & David Cloutier

  2. Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, 87185, USA

    Bruce LeBlanc

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Correspondence to Timothy Marinone .

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  1. Engineering Physics Department, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

    Matt Allen

  2. Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

    Randy Mayes

  3. Lehrstuhl fur Angewandte Mechanik, Technische Universitat Munchen, Garching, Germany

    Daniel Rixen

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Marinone, T., Cloutier, D., LeBlanc, B. (2014). Modal Testing and Model Validation Issues of SWiFT Turbine Tests. In: Allen, M., Mayes, R., Rixen, D. (eds) Dynamics of Coupled Structures, Volume 1. Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04501-6_36

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