Adaptive Boom Guy Cable Bracket for Adjustable Tension Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional guy cable brackets for wind turbine installation are designed for specific installation ships, leading to resource waste and high construction costs due to their inability to adapt to different boom structures, compromising operational safety and reliability.
Innovation Solution
An adaptive boom guy cable bracket with adjustable truss rods and hawser guiding portions, equipped with tension sensors and a control system to adjust the guy cable tension dynamically, ensuring compatibility with various installation ships and maintaining safety and reliability.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional guy cable brackets are designed for specific installation ships, then the structural stability is ensured, but the adaptability to different boom structures is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The guy cable bracket employs adjustable truss rod lengths that can be dynamically modified to match different boom structures. The truss rods include adjustment mechanisms allowing length variation while maintaining structural stability through controlled adaptation to various installation ship configurations.
Solution Approach 2:
The bracket design incorporates changeable geometric parameters including truss rod lengths and connection point positions. These parameters can be adjusted according to different boom structures, enabling the same bracket design to maintain structural stability across multiple installation ship types.
2Manufacturing precision
If conventional guy cable brackets are welded for specific ships, then the manufacturing precision is high, but the resource waste and construction costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The guy cable bracket is divided into modular components including separate truss rods, connection nodes, and adjustment mechanisms. These segmented parts can be independently manufactured and reconfigured for different ships, reducing waste from complete bracket replacement while maintaining welding precision in each modular section.
Solution Approach 2:
The adjustable design allows the bracket components to be recovered and reused across multiple installation ships. Instead of discarding welded brackets after single-use, the same components can be reconfigured and reused, significantly reducing resource waste while maintaining manufacturing precision through standardized connection interfaces.
3Ease of manufacture
If the guy cable bracket structure is fixed, then the ease of manufacture is improved, but the adaptability to different installation requirements is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The bracket incorporates adjustable truss rod lengths with simple adjustment mechanisms that maintain manufacturing simplicity. The adjustment features use standardized components and connection methods that do not significantly complicate the manufacturing process while enabling adaptation to different installation requirements.
Solution Approach 2:
The guy cable bracket design achieves multi-functionality through adjustable parameters, allowing a single standardized design to serve multiple installation ship types and configurations. This universal approach maintains ease of manufacture through standardized components while providing adaptability to various installation requirements.
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AI summary
An adaptive boom guy cable system and guy cable support, and an adjustment method. The guy cable support is used for being mounted on a boom (10), and comprises two trusses (20) symmetrically arranged with respect to the boom (10). In a first projection plane perpendicular to the length direction of the boom (10), truss rods of the trusses (20) are arranged in a triangular shape. One end of a second truss rod (2) and one end of a third truss rod (3) are hingedly connected to two ends of a first truss rod (1), respectively. The other end of the second truss rod (2) is hingedly connected to the other end of the third truss rod (3). The lengths of the first truss rod (1), the second truss rod (2) and the third truss rod (3) are all adjustable. The two ends of the first truss rod (1) are respectively provided with detachable connection portions (4) adapted to the boom (10), and the second truss rod (2) or the third truss rod (3) is provided with a cable rope guide portion (5). The solution can be compatible with booms (10) applicable to different installation vessels, and has good universality; moreover, on the basis of the adjustable structures of the trusses (20) in the present solution, the trusses can be adjusted in a wide range of angles according to actual construction requirements after being installed on the boom (10), so as to adjust the guy cable tension to an optimal state.