Development and Design of Elastic, Rubber-based Mounts for Different Components of Windmills: Example and Engineering Backgrounds

摘要

The present contribution illustrates different aspects of designing and calculation of vibration control components within windmills. The necessity for vibration control and acoustics is motivated and different, widely used design solutions are presented. Typical engineering approaches are explained that allows to develop rubber-based, elastic components. Furthermore questions of rubber life-time are discussed and in-field experiments w.r.t. dynamical analysis of power generation components are illustrated.