Wind turbines last longer than ever thanks to continuous engineering improvements. Gearboxes in wind turbines, more than those in any other application, tend to fail prematurely. In fact, at some wind ...

Jari Toikkanen, manager of the research and test group at Moventas, a tier-one wind turbine gearbox supplier, has seen the number of noise and vibration tests ordered by wind turbine original ...

More than 1,200MW of wind power capacity was installed in the United States in the third quarter of 2011 alone, bringing new installations through the first three quarters of the year to 3,360MW, ...

Wind turbines are fitted with multiple bearings that each wear differently. Today, larger stresses in larger turbines are testing conventional bearing designs, particularly in mainshafts. Photo ...

Wind turbines are more reliable than ever, as evidenced by the uptime and availability numbers for today’s wind farms. It’s due in large part to wind-turbine gearboxes that have become increasingly ...

It is not much of an exaggeration to say that the whole wind turbine industry rides on bearings. Wind turbines operate under arduous conditions. The bearings used in them must work reliably and have a ...

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. The simplest axial magnetic gearboxes consist of two disks each containing alternating positive and negative magnets ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Technavio analysts forecast the global wind turbine gearbox market to post an impressive revenue of more than USD 15 billion by 2020, according to their latest report. The ...