TY - GEN
T1 - Optimization of the skin thickness distribution in the composite wind turbine blade
AU - Young, Wen-Bin
AU - Wu, Wen Hsiang
PY - 2011/11/10
Y1 - 2011/11/10
N2 - The wind turbine blade sustains wind loadings during the operation and parking states. Due to the increasing size of the wind turbine blade, it is important to utilize the composite materials in a sufficient way to reach the material strength. Most of the composite blades are made of glass fibers composites while carbon fibers are also employed in recent years. Composite materials have the advantages of high specific strength and stress. This study develops a GUI interface to construct the blade model for the stress analysis using ANSYS. With the aid of visualization interface, the geometric model of the blade can be constructed by only a few data inputs. Based on the numerical stress analysis of the turbine blade, a simple iterative method was proposed to design the structure of the composite blade.
AB - The wind turbine blade sustains wind loadings during the operation and parking states. Due to the increasing size of the wind turbine blade, it is important to utilize the composite materials in a sufficient way to reach the material strength. Most of the composite blades are made of glass fibers composites while carbon fibers are also employed in recent years. Composite materials have the advantages of high specific strength and stress. This study develops a GUI interface to construct the blade model for the stress analysis using ANSYS. With the aid of visualization interface, the geometric model of the blade can be constructed by only a few data inputs. Based on the numerical stress analysis of the turbine blade, a simple iterative method was proposed to design the structure of the composite blade.
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U2 - 10.1109/FPM.2011.6045730
DO - 10.1109/FPM.2011.6045730
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:80555149703
SN - 9781424484522
T3 - Proceedings of 2011 International Conference on Fluid Power and Mechatronics, FPM 2011
SP - 62
EP - 66
BT - Proceedings of 2011 International Conference on Fluid Power and Mechatronics, FPM 2011
T2 - 2011 International Conference on Fluid Power and Mechatronics, FPM 2011
Y2 - 17 August 2011 through 20 August 2011
ER -