• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.39 no.8
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• pp.758-765
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• 2011

Recently, the wind energy has been widely used as a renewable energy resource due to lack and environmental issues of the mostly used fossil fuel. This work is to develop a 500W class blade design of vertical axis wind turbine system which will be applicable to relatively low speed region like Korea and for the domestic use. For this wind turbine a high efficiency and low noise turbine blade was designed with the proposing aerodynamic design procedure, and a light composite structure blade. Structural analyses were performed using the Finite Element Method and fatigue life of the designed blade is estimated. Finally, in order to check its performance, the manufactured blade was tested by using truck and the results of test was good with respect to its analysis result.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.49 no.1
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• pp.53-61
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• 2021

This paper is a preliminary study for the development of a drone for inspection inside a boiler in a thermal power plant, which is a high-temperature environment, and validated whether the drone can fly normally through a high-temperature environment simulation using AirSim. In a high-temperature flight environment, the aerodynamic characteristics of the air density and viscosity are different from room temperature, and the flight performance of the drone is also changed accordingly. Therefore, in order to confirm the change of the aerodynamic characteristics of the propeller according to the temperature change, the propeller analysis and thrust test through JBLADE, and the operation characteristics prediction through the electric propulsion system performance prediction model were performed. In addition, the analysis and performance prediction results were applied to AirSim for simulation, and the aircraft redesigned through the analysis of the results. As a result of the redesign, it was confirmed that about 65% of the maximum power used before the redesign was reduced to 52% to obtain the necessary thrust when hovering in an environment of 80℃.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.230-240
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• 2013

Human powered aircraft: the aim is to fly only by human power, features many challenging issues. Contrary to the general aircraft operated by an engine, human powered aircraft, that manoeuvres by lower power, requires additional consideration about weight, material, aerodynamical and structural analysis. Since this aircraft flies at a low speed, low Reynolds number flight will need to be taken into account. In this paper, SNU (Seoul National University) Human Powered Aircraft was designed by comparing it with the existing human power aircrafts, as well as by using theoretical analysis that obtains the design parameters. Also, this paper discuss about the manufacturing process using composite material for real human powered aircraft.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.32 no.3
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• pp.74-81
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• 2004

In this study preliminary structural design has been performed to develop an all composite wing box for experimental aircraft(classified in FAR Part 21). Considerations on composite materials and their manufacturing process were taken into account throughout the design phase. Aerodynamic loads were estimated by using Shrenk method(NACA TM No 948) and FAR Part 23 Appendix A. The structural layout has been determined to carry effectively the critical loads and to maximize the benefit of composite structure. Maximum strain failure allowable and first ply failure criteria were applied for the sizing of major structural members. Finally, the designed composite wing box structure is presented in the form of drawings, which include material specifications, stacking sequences and joint design.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.30 no.10
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• pp.1061-1068
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• 2013

In this research, the design optimization of a composite sandwich has been performed for using as an airplane wing skin. Automated analysis framework for aero-structure interaction is used for calculating load data on the wing. For automated analysis framework, FLUENT is used for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis. CFD mesh is generated automatically by using parametric modeling of CATIA and GAMBIT. A computational structure mechanics (CSM) mesh is generated automatically by the parametric method of the CATIA and visual basic script of NASTRAN-FX. The structure is analyzed by ABAQUS. Composite sandwich optimization is performed by NASTRAN SOL200. Design variables are thicknesses of the sandwich core and composite skin panel plies. The objective is to minimize the weight of the wing and constraints are applied for wing tip displacement, global failure index and local failure indexes.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.501-504
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• 2011

In this study, structural design of the propeller blade for turboprop aircraft was performed. The propeller shall have high strength to get the thrust to fly at high speed. The high stiffness and strength carbon/epoxy composite material was used for the major structure and skin-spar-foam sandwich structural type was adopted for improvement of lightness. As a design procedure for the present study, firstly the structural design load was estimated through investigation on aerodynamic load and then flanges of spars from major bending loads and the skin from shear loads were preliminarily sized using the netting rule. In order to investigate the structural safety and stability, stress analysis was performed by finite element analysis code MSC. NASTRAN. Finally, it is investigated that designed blade have high efficiency and structural safety to analyze of aerodynamic and structural design results.

• Composites Research
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.22-31
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• 2009

Recently the wind energy has been alternatively used as a renewable energy resource instead of the mostly used fossil fuel due to its lack and environmental issues. This work is to propose a structural design and analysis procedure for development of the 500W class small wind turbine system which will be applicable to relatively low speed region like Korea and for the domestic use. The wind turbine blade was performed structural analysis including stress, deformation, buckling, vibration and fatigue. In addition, the blade should be safe from the impact damage due to FOD(Foreign Object Damage) including the bird strike. MSC.Dytran was used in order to analyze the bird strike penomena on the blade, and the applied method Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian was evaluated by comparison with the previous study results. Finally, the structural test was carried out and its test results were compared with the estimated results for evaluation of the designed structure.

• Journal of KSNVE
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.11-19
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• 1996

지금까지의 항공기 날개에 공력 탄성학적 제어를 위해 압전재료를 작동기로 사용하는 연구는 아직은 완전하지 못하지만 실용화 가능성을 조사하기 위해 집중적인 투자가 행해지고 있다. 본 글에서 언급한 예 외에도 압전재를 이용 날개의 익형을 능동적으로 조절함으로써 천음속에서의 저항을 줄이기 위한 연구(transonic drag reduction with piezos), 압전재로 작동하는 제어면을 부착하여 헬리쿱터 블레이드 의 진동을 제어하기 위한 실험적 연구, 항공기 외부 장착물에 의해 발생되는 불안정 성을 제어하기 위한 압전작동기를 사용한 pylon decoupler 설계 등 다양한 분에에서 연구가 되고 있다. 하지만 아직까지는 제어에 필요한 충분한 제어력을 얻는 문제, 주 구조물과 압전재료의 강성도의 차이, 가용한 압전재의 실용화, 내구성 문제 등 항공 기에의 응용을 위한 새로운 재료의 개발이 요구되고 있다. 그리고 사용에 필요한 전력을 공급하는 문제는 지상에서 작동되는 시스템과는 달리 항공기에서는 해결해야 될 큰 문제점이며, 이에 대한 연구가 요구되고 있으며, 실용 가능성이 보일 경우 재료의 내구성, 제어 성능, 번개 등 외력에 대한 손상 예측 등 광범위한 연구가 이어 질 것으로 예측된다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.2 no.3
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• pp.1-9
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• 1998

The exhaustion of fossil fuels and serious environmental pollution put the concern about non-po llution energy into the world. On the developments of technology, wind energy has been spotlighted as a non-pollution energy in many countries. This study has carried out the aerodynamic and structural design procedure of the lightweight composite rotor blades with an appropriate aerodynamic performance and structural strength for the 500㎾ medium class wind turbine system. The previous design, which is shell-spar structure, is redesigned to shell-spar- sandwich structure for light weight. Large deformation problem from light weight is examined by non-linear analysis. Local buckling occurred under lower stress than failure stress. The buckling analysis is accomplished to confirm the safety of the composite blade. The stress analysis around pin hole joint part at hub is carried out and it is confirmed that the pin hole is not failed. The results show that the resonance of redesigned blade does not happen in operation range.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.288-294
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• 2010

In recent years, wind energy has been the world's fastest growing source of energy. This paper describes the structural design and analysis of composite blade for 2 kW-level HAWT (horizontal axis wind turbine). The aerodynamic design and force, which are required to design and analyze a composite blade structurally, are calculated through BEMT(blade element momentum theory) implemented in public code PROPID. To obtain the equivalent material properties of filament wound composite blades, the rule-of-mixture is applied using the basic material properties of fiber and matrix, respectively. Lay-up sequence, ply thickness and ply angle are designed to satisfy the loading conditions. Structural analysis by using commercial software ABAQUS is performed to compute the displacement and strength ratio of filament wound composite blades.