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Active strategies with TMDs for control of wind turbine vibrations
Fitzgerald, Breiffni (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, 2012)This thesis investigates the use of active structural control techniques for the mitigation of the dynamic response of wind turbines with particular emphasis on reducing the in-plane (edgewise) vibrations in wind turbine ... -
An Assessment of the Potential for Co-located Offshore Wind and Wave Farms in Ireland
Fitzgerald, Breiffni (2020)Ireland’s geographic location along the Atlantic Ocean means that it has one of the highest resources of wind and wave energy on the planet. Despite this, successful integration of wave energy into the Irish energy system ... -
A Comparison of Soil Structure Interaction Models for Dynamic Analysis of Offshore Wind Turbines
Fitzgerald, Breiffni; Igoe, David (2020)This paper compares the dynamic response of an OWT structure where the below ground pile-soil behaviour is modelled using (i) the conventional API ‘p-y’ approach and (ii) the ‘PISA’ approach. A nonlinear aero-elastic code ... -
Damping Ratio Estimation for a Slender Modular Building from Full Scale Ambient Response Monitoring
Fitzgerald, Breiffni; Broderick, Brian; Hickey, John (2023)The application of modular construction in tall slender structures is a relatively novel concept. Modular buildings with heights exceeding 130m have been successfully constructed by combining reinforced concrete cores with ... -
The Effect of Acceleration Signal Length on the Outputs from Modal Identification Methods
Fitzgerald, Breiffni; Broderick, Brian; Hickey, John (2023)The damping ratio is a significant factor influencing the dynamic behaviour of a structure. The safety, serviceability and habitability of a structure are all impacted by the damping ratio. Damping ratio does not relate ... -
Enhancing the reliability of floating offshore wind turbine towers subjected to misaligned wind-wave loading using tuned mass damper inerters (TMDIs)
Fitzgerald, Breiffni (2023)Floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) are the largest rotating structures on the earth. Dynamically sensitive structures such as these must be protected in these environments to ensure that they can continue to operate ... -
Experimental and computational evaluation of modal identification techniques for structural damping estimation
Fitzgerald, Breiffni; Broderick, Brian (2022)The damping ratio is a key indicator of a structures susceptability to human discomfort due to dynamic loads. Computational models, wind tunnel studies and empirical data can provide estimates of the damping ratio of a ... -
Flow in a large wind field with multiple actuators in the presence of constant vorticity
Fitzgerald, Breiffni; Basu, Biswajit; Soodhalter, Kirk (2022)Study of wind farms is an area of active research. Researchers have proposed simplified wind farm models which define the wake structure in a wind farm and how they affect the performance of the wind turbines. Interestingly ... -
Fluid inerter for optimal vibration control of floating offshore wind turbine towers
Fitzgerald, Breiffni (2022)This paper proposes the use of a tuned mass damper fluid-inerter (TMDFI) for vibration control of spar-type floating offshore wind turbine towers. The use of an inerter in parallel with the spring and damper of a tuned ... -
Impact of Sources of Damping On the Fragility Estimates of Wind Turbine Towers
Fitzgerald, Breiffni (2024)Fragility estimates in wind turbine towers have been investigated but the the effect of damping on fragility has not been studied. While damping can often be small, it can come from different sources for a wind turbine. ... -
Individual Blade Pitch Control of Floating Offshore Wind Turbines for Load Mitigation and Power Regulation
Fitzgerald, Breiffni; Basu, Biswajit; Sarkar, Saptarshi (2020)This paper proposes a new strategy for individual blade pitch control to regulate power production while simultaneously alleviating structural loads on spar-type floating offshore wind turbines. Individual blade pitch ... -
Mitigation of Wind Induced Accelerations in Tall Modular Buildings
Fitzgerald, Breiffni; Broderick, Brian (2022)This paper compares two methods of mitigating wind induced vibrations in tall modular buildings. Tall buildings experience wind induced motion which can result in serviceability and habitability issues associated with ... -
Mitigation of wind induced accelerations in tall modular buildings
Hickey, John; Broderick, Brian; Fitzgerald, Breiffni (2022)This paper compares two methods of mitigating wind induced vibrations in tall modular buildings. Tall buildings experience wind induced motion which can result in serviceability and habitability issues associated with ... -
Model Validation for the Wind Response of Modular High-Rise Buildings through Full Scale Monitoring
Fitzgerald, Breiffni; Broderick, Brian (2022)For many tall building forms, habitability requirements associated with excessive acceleration response become a governing design criterion as building heights increase. This study considers the wind-induced acceleration ... -
Multi-resolution wavelet pitch controller for spar-type floating offshore wind turbines including wave-current interactions
Fitzgerald, Breiffni; Basu, Biswajit (2020)This paper proposes a wavelet multi-resolution based individual pitch control strategy for spar-type floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) and investigates its performance under joint wind-wave-current loads considering ... -
Nonlinear model predictive control to reduce pitch actuation of floating offshore wind turbines
Fitzgerald, Breiffni; Basu, Biswajit (2020)Modern-day wind turbines use active pitch control to reduce mechanical loads on the turbines in addition to regulating generator power. These control algorithms increase blade pitch actuation, primarily to reduce the 1P ... -
Numerical modelling of a monopile for estimating the natural frequency of an offshore wind turbine
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Physics-Informed Neural Network surrogate model for bypassing Blade Element Momentum theory in wind turbine aerodynamic load estimation
Fitzgerald, Breiffni (2024)This paper proposes the use of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), specifically Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs), for dynamic surrogate modelling of wind turbines. PINNs offer the flexibility to model complex ... -
A Review of Rapid Distortion Theory
Fitzgerald, Breiffni; Basu, Biswajit (2022)With the depleting non-renewable fuel sources like coal and an ever-increasing demand for energy, we need to start looking into renewable energy sources. These are of paramount importance for a sustainable and green future. ... -
Structural damping estimation from live monitoring of a tall modular building
Fitzgerald, Breiffni; Broderick, Brian (2023)The damping ratio is a key indicator of an individual structure's susceptibility to dynamic loads, including the level of discomfort experienced by the occupants of a tall building subjected to wind loading. While ...