• Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.29-36
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• 2024

Recently, the concept of Urban Air Mobility (UAM) has expanded to Advanced Air Mobility (AAM). A tilt rotor type of vertical take-off and landing aircraft has been actively studied and developed. A tilt-rotor aircraft can perform a transition flight between vertical and horizontal flights. A blade pitch angle control system can be used for flight stability during transition flight time. In addition, Individual Blade Control (IBC) can reduce noise and vibration generated in transition flight. This paper proposed Disturbance Observer Based Control (DOBC) and Time Delay Control (TDC) for individual blade control of an Electro-Mechanical Actuator (EMA) based blade pitch angle control system. To compare and analyze proposed controllers, numerical simulations were conducted with DOBC and TDC.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.209-214
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• 2011

A method to detect rotor mass imbalance, which is one of the typical faults of wind turbine, is presented for effective condition monitoring of wind turbine. Dynamic analysis for a three-bladed horizontal-axis wind turbine was carried out with adding mass to a blade for inflicting the rotor mass imbalance. It has been found that the added mass induce a resulting centrifugal force to nacelle and this leads to a transverse (relative to the rotor axis) oscillation of the nacelle. It has been also found that the amplitude of the oscillation is almost linearly increased as the added mass is increased.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.371-377
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• 2004

As the turbine running duration in nuclear power plants increases, cracks have been found in the pin finger type blade root area. The nondestructive examination for the blade root area has been carried out by manual ultrasonic examination during the overhaul period, but because of necessity to improve the reliability, we developed an automatic ultrasonic examination system and technique. To demonstrate the performance of the developed automatic ultrasonic examination system, low pressure turbine blades in the 2nd and 3rd stages of nuclear power plants were examined using the developed system. Its applicability nuclear power plant turbine roots of various types was also confirmed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2011.06a
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• pp.1499-1500
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• 2011

• 유체기계공업학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2002.12a
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• pp.273-278
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• 2002

The characteristics of tip vortex within a blade tip region were examined experimentally in various flow coefficients by the way of changing tip clearance and blade stagger angle in an axial Low Speed Research Compressor(LSRC). The objective was to identify the unsteady pressure distribution in the blade passage by ensemble average technique acquired from high-frequency response pressure transducers and the tip vortex by root mean square value(RMS value). Data were reduced statistically using phase-lock technique for detailed pressure distributions.

• Journal of Wind Energy
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.43-53
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• 2023

To improve AEP, wind turbine blade lengths are increasing every year. As the length of blades increases, the blade tip speed also increases. Because of the increased tip speed, the impact energy between the leading edge and raindrops also increases. The increased impact energy is the primary factor contributing to erosion of the blade's leading edge. Blade leading edge erosion reduces aerodynamic performance, increases repair costs, and causes downtime. Therefore, numerous studies are being conducted on protective solutions and RET systems to prevent and delay erosion of the blade's leading edge. However, few institutions in Korea research protective solutions and RET systems. In this study, we aim to develop a laboratory-scale RET system. The developed RET system was based on the ASTM G73-10 standard. As a result of the RET, it was confirmed that the erosion tendency was similar to that of overseas institutions. In addition, the effectiveness of the RET system was verified by a maximum erosion rate of 0.0023 for an epoxy-based protective solution.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.46 no.7
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• pp.575-582
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• 2018

The spaceborne cooler is applied to cool down of the focal plane of the infrared detector of the observation satellite. However, this cooler induces unnecessary micro-jitter which can degrade the image quality of the high-resolution observation satellite. In this study, we proposed a multi-layered blade type vibration isolator to attenuate micro-vibration generated from a spaceborne cooler, while assuring structural safety of the cooler under severe launch loads without an additional launch-lock device. The blade of the isolator is formed with multi-layers in order to obtain durability against fatigue failure and an adhesive is applied between each layers for granting high damping capability under launch vibration environment. In this study, the basic characteristics of the isolator were measured using the free-vibration test. The effectiveness of the isolator design was demonstrated by launch vibration test at qualification level.

• Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.45-55
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• 2023

This study conducted aeromechanics modeling and structural load analyses of Tilt Rotor Aeroacoustic Model (TRAM), a 25% scaled V-22 tiltrotor model used in wind tunnel tests. A rotorcraft comprehensive analysis code, CAMRAD II, was used. Analysis results of this study in low-speed forward flights were compared with DNW test and previous analysis results. Blade flap bending moments were in good agreement with measured data. Mean values and oscillatory loads for lead-lag bending and torsion moments were slightly different from measured data. However, when mean values were removed, results of structural loads for one rotor revolution were moderately compared with wind tunnel tests and previous analyses. Total forces and half peak-to-peak forces of the pitch link reasonably well matched with previous analysis results and measured data. Finally, harmonic magnitudes of blade structural loads were investigated.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.245-248
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• 2006

풍력터빈 풍동시험의 경우 모델 축소에 의한 레이놀즈 수 감소가 ?V력터빈 성능에 미치는 영향이 적절히 고려되어야 한다. 본 연구를 통해 수치해석과 축소모델 풍동시험을 통해 모델 축소효과를 파악하여 이를 적절히 보상하는 기법을 개발하고자 한다. 이를 위해 풍력터빈 형상 및 실물모델 시험데이터가 공개되어 있는 NREL Phase VI 모델을 표준모델로 선정하여 수치해석 및 풍동시험을 수행하였다. 풍동시험은 KARI LSWT에서 2006. 10에 수행되었으며, 블레이드 끝단 속도를 실물 모델과 일치시켰으며 시험부 유속은 $0{\sim}25m/s$, 블레이드 설치각은 3도 조건을 기준조건으로 사용하였다. 축소모델 시험결과 최대토크는 약 10% 정도 감소현상을 보이고 있다.

• New & Renewable Energy
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• v.2 no.4 s.8
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• pp.12-18
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• 2006

풍력터빈 풍동시험의 경우 모델 축소에 의한 레이놀즈 수 감소가 풍력터빈 성능에 미치는 영향이 적절히 고려되어야 한다. 본 연구를 통해 수치해석과 축소모델 풍동시험을 통해 모델 축소효과를 파악하여 이를 적절히 보상하는 기법을 개발하고자 한다. 이를 위해 풍력터빈 형상 및 실물모델 시험데이터가 공개되어 있는 NREL Phase VI 모델을 표준모델로 선정하여 수치해석 및 풍동시험을 수행하였다. 풍동시험은 KARI LSWT에서 2006. 10에 수행되었으며, 블레이드 끝단 속도를 실물 모델과 일치시켰으며 시험부 유속은 0$\sim$25m/s, 블레이드 설치각은 3도 조건을 기준조건으로 사용하였다. 축소모델 시험결과 최대토크는 약 10% 정도 감소현상을 보이고 있다.