Traffic & Transportation Engineering

Investigation into Minimum Vertical Curve Radius and Length of Highway in Mountainous Wind Farm

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  • 1. School of Civil Engineering and Transportation,South China University of Technology,Guangzhou 510640Guangdong,China;2. Guangdong Province Communications Plannning and Design Institute Co. ,Ltd. ,Guangzhou 510507,GuangdongChina;3. China Energy Construction Group Guangdong Electric Power Design Institute Co. ,Ltd. ,Guangzhou 510663,Guangdong,China
杨永红(1977-),女,博士,讲师,主要从事道路设计和安全研究.

Received date: 2015-04-24

  Revised date: 2015-08-24

  Online published: 2015-11-01

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Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(51508204) and the Scientific Research Staring Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars,Ministry of Education of China(49)

Abstract

As the wind power equipment is heavy and its blades are long,it requires a special highway to transport,which belongs to special equipment transportation. As there is no specification for the highway alignment design of large-scale wind farms in the mountainous areas in China,the relevant indexes of large blade transportation vehicles,which influence the highway profile design,are systematically investigated in this paper. From the four aspects of mitigating the impact in the vertical curve of vehicles,ensuring an adequately long travel time,keeping the blade tail from scraping the ground and restricting the pitch angle,the minimum radius and length of vertical curves are analyzed,and the models to calculate the minimum radii and lengths of concave and convex vertical curves are constructed under different constraint conditions. Finally,the minimum radii and lengths of vertical curves are recommended for the large aerogenerator transportation with various design speeds and scopes of algebraic difference in grades. The results can provide guidance for the highway design and construction of the aerogenerator transportation,and can also be used to formulate the standards relevant to the aerogenerator transportation highway.

Cite this article

Yang Yong-hong Hou Huang Chen Xing-guang Zhou Xiang-yang . Investigation into Minimum Vertical Curve Radius and Length of Highway in Mountainous Wind Farm[J]. Journal of South China University of Technology(Natural Science), 2015 , 43(12) : 85 -90 . DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1000-565X.2015.12.012

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