Method for determining fatigue damage in a power train of a wind turbine

摘要

A method for determining the evolution of torque of at least one rotatable shaft (15) and the resulting fatigue damage to different power train components (10) is provided for design and/or maintenance operations in a wind turbine that comprises the steps of determining torque (Tg) at a high speed shaft (35) of the power train (10); determining moment of inertia (Ig) at said high speed shaft (35); determining angular acceleration (±g) at said high speed shaft (35); and determining torque (Tr) at the low speed shaft (15) of the power train (10) through the formula Tr= (Tg-Ig·±g)i. A rainflow-counting algorithm may be applied to the value of the torque (Tr) at the low speed shaft (15) for determining the number of cycles at ranges of torque for every torque mean value.