Reinforcement Assembly for Wind Turbine Tower
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorGregory Edward Cooper
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Abstract
The present disclosure is directed to an internal reinforcement assembly for a tower of a wind turbine. The reinforcement assembly includes a plurality of reinforcing rod members spaced circumferentially about the tower. Each of the plurality of reinforcing rod members includes a first end and a second end. The reinforcement assembly also includes an adjustable mounting component configured with each of the second ends of the plurality of reinforcing rod members. As such, the adjustable mounting components are mounted to an interior wall of the tower at a location to be reinforced. Thus, the reinforcing rod members interact with the tower to reinforce the tower at the location to be reinforced.
Claims14
A method for reinforcing a tower of a wind turbine having at least one damaged location, the method comprising:
- mapping the damaged location;
- performing, via at least one processor, a buckling analysis of the damaged location based on the mapping;
- determining a number of reinforcing rod members to mount to an interior wall of the tower based on the buckling analysis;
- determining a mounting location on the interior wall of the tower for each of the reinforcing rod members based on the buckling analysis;
- and,
- mounting the reinforcing rod members to the mounting locations to reinforce the damaged location.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.