A Numerical Analysis for Light Weight and Strength Improvement of Wind Power System Nacelle Cover

풍력발전기용 나셀외장부의 경량화 및 강도향상에 관한 수치해석

  • Kang, Ji-Woong (The Institute of Disaster and Accident Prevention, Pukyong National University) ;
  • Kwon, Oh-Heon (Division of Safety Engineering, Pukyong National University) ;
  • Jeong, Woo-Yul (Department of Safety Engineering, Graduate School, Pukyong National University)
  • 강지웅 (부경대학교 방재연구소) ;
  • 권오헌 (부경대학교 안전공학부) ;
  • 정우열 (부경대학교 대학원 안전공학과)
  • Received : 2010.04.27
  • Accepted : 2010.08.20
  • Published : 2010.08.31

Abstract

Wind power system is composed by 3 major parts, rotor blade, nacelle and tower. Especially, the nacelle cover has an important role to prevent the component of nacelle and rotor from an extreme external circumstance. Therefore it is necessary to analyze and evaluate the stress distribution and deformation for them in the design level. There are two major points in nacelle cover analysis. The one is nacelle cover itself and the other is cover support structure. According to GL specification, this study shows the result that CFRP nacelle cover of wind turbine satisfies the strength and deformation through numerical analysis using the commercial finite element analysis program.

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