The PhD stipend is affiliated with the research centre ‘Knowledge based engineering for improved reliability of critical wind turbine components’ (REWIND) funded by the Danish Council for Strategic Research.
It is the overall purpose of the centre to perform strategic research at the highest level in the field of materials - manufacturing - properties - performance of metallic components in the rotor and drivetrain in large wind turbines, with the ultimate aim of enhancing the reliability, extending the lifetime and arriving at an improved life expectancy prediction of such components.
This PhD stipend is one of eleven funded through the REWIND research project -two are placed with Aalborg University and the others are placed with the Technical University of Denmark. Further, the following industrial partners participate in the centre: DONG Energy, Vattenfall, Vestas Wind Systems and Magma.
In the PhD project 'Probabilistic modelling of wind turbine drivetrain components’ focus is on development of probabilistic models for assessment of the reliability of drivetrain components. Stochastic models are to be developed for initial damage/defect sizes and distribution in time and space for selected, critical components in the nacelle and hub such as bearings, gearbox and hub.
Probabilistic damage accumulation models will be formulated based on the results in workpackages in the centre. The stochastic modeling is to be based on theoretical considerations and the quality control in the manufacturing process and from various types of tests: coupon, subcomponent, full-scale, downscaled and accelerated tests.
PhD Stipend in Probabilistic Modelling of Wind Turbine Drivetrain Components
