Gearbox Reliability Collaborative Phase 3 Gearbox 3 Test

Keller, Jonathan

doi:10.7799/1337868

Title: Gearbox Reliability Collaborative Phase 3 Gearbox 3 Test

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The GRC uses a combined gearbox testing, modeling, and analysis approach disseminating data and results to the industry and facilitating improvement of gearbox reliability. This test data describes the tests of GRC gearbox 3 in the National Wind Technology Center dynamometer and documents any modifications to the original test plan. It serves as a guide to interpret the publicly released data sets with brief analyses to illustrate the data. TDMS viewer and Solidworks software required to view data files. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Gearbox Reliability Collaborative (GRC) was established by the U.S. Department of Energy in 2006; its key goal is to understand the root causes of premature gearbox failures and improve their reliability.

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National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Publication Date:: 2016-12-28

Other Number(s):: 56

Research Org.:: National Renewable Energy Laboratory - Data (NREL-DATA), Golden, CO (United States); National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Wind and Water Technologies Office (EE-4W)

Subject:: 17 WIND ENERGY; Analysis; Boulder; Colorado; Dynamometer; GRC; Gearbox; Gearbox 3; Gearbox Reliability Collaborative; Modeling; NREL; NWTC; Reliability; Testing; Turbines; bearing loads; data; dynamic bending; energy; fatigue; load sharing; renewable energy; static bending; static thrust; wind energy

OSTI Identifier:: 1337868

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7799/1337868

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