• Wind and Structures
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• 제23권6호
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• pp.559-575
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• 2016

In order to investigate the influence of different blade positions on aerodynamic load and wind loads and load-effects of large scale wind turbine tower under the halt state, we take a certain 3 MW large scale horizontal axis three-blade wind turbine as the example for analysis. First of all, numerical simulation was conducted for wind turbine flow field and aerodynamic characteristics under different halt states (8 calculating conditions in total) based on LES (large eddy simulation) method. The influence of different halt states on the average and fluctuating wind pressure coefficients of turbine tower surface, total lift force and resistance coefficient, circular flow and wake flow characteristics was compared and analysed. Then on this basis, the time-domain analysis of wind loads and load-effects was performed for the wind turbine tower structure under different halt states by making use of the finite element method. The main conclusions of this paper are as follows: The halt positions of wind blade could have a big impact on tower circular flow and aerodynamic distribution, in which Condition 5 is the most unfavourable while Condition 1 is the most beneficial condition. The wind loads and load-effects of disturbed region of tower is obviously affected by different halt positions of wind blades, especially the large fluctuating displacement mean square deviation at both windward and leeward sides, among which the maximum response occurs in $350^{\circ}$ to the tower top under Condition 8; the maximum bending moment of tower bottom occurs in $330^{\circ}$ under Condition 2. The extreme displacement of blade top all exceeds 2.5 m under Condition 5, and the maximum value of windward displacement response for the tip of Blade 3 under Condition 8 could reach 3.35 m. All these results indicate that the influence of halt positions of different blades should be taken into consideration carefully when making wind-resistance design for large scale wind turbine tower.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.433-450
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• 2020

The strong turbulence characteristic of typhoon not only will significantly change flow field characteristics surrounding the large-scale wind turbine and aerodynamic force distribution on surface, but also may cause morphological evolution of coast dune and thereby form sand storms. A 5MW horizontal-axis wind turbine in a wind power plant of southeastern coastal areas in China was chosen to investigate the distribution law of additional loads caused by wind-sand coupling movement of coast dune at landing of strong typhoons. Firstly, a mesoscale Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) mode was introduced in for high spatial resolution simulation of typhoon "Megi". Wind speed profile on the boundary layer of typhoon was gained through fitting based on nonlinear least squares and then it was integrated into the user-defined function (UDF) as an entry condition of small-scaled CFD numerical simulation. On this basis, a synchronous iterative modeling of wind field and sand particle combination was carried out by using a continuous phase and discrete phase. Influencing laws of typhoon and normal wind on moving characteristics of sand particles, equivalent pressure distribution mode of structural surface and characteristics of lift resistance coefficient were compared. Results demonstrated that: Compared with normal wind, mesoscale typhoon intensifies the 3D aerodynamic distribution mode on structural surface of wind turbine significantly. Different from wind loads, sand loads mainly impact on 30° ranges at two sides of the lower windward region on the tower. The ratio between sand loads and wind load reaches 3.937% and the maximum sand pressure coefficient is 0.09. The coupling impact effect of strong typhoon and large sand particles is more significant, in which the resistance coefficient of tower is increased by 9.80% to the maximum extent. The maximum resistance coefficient in typhoon field is 13.79% higher than that in the normal wind field.

• 항공우주기술
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2005

미감항규정인 FAR과 이에 기반한 하중해석 절차를 설명하였다. 하중해석을 위해서는 규정과 하중조건을 준비하고, 공기력, 중량 및 구조 모델링을 수행해야 한다. 항공기 비행하중 해석시 공기력은 일반적으로 패널방법을 이용하여 산출하게 된다. 본 연구에서는 하중해석을 위해 In-house 프로그램인 ARGON을 사용하였다. ARGON은 KARI와 TsAGI가 공동 개발한 고정익 항공기 설계 프로그램으로서 비행하중, 지상하중, 플러터 및 응력해석을 지원한다. 본 논문에서는 ARGON을 이용하여 4인승 선미익 항공기 개발에 있어 필수적인 비행하중 해석을 수행하였고 그 결과를 제시하였다.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제33권7호
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• pp.76-84
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• 2005

스마트 무인기 비행하중해석을 위해서는 규정과 하중조건을 준비하고, 공기력, 중량 및 구조 모델링을 수행해야 한다. 항공기 비행하중 해석시 공기력은 일반적으로 패널방법을 이용하여 산출하게 된다. 본 연구에서는 하중해석을 위해 In-house 프로그램인 ARGON을 사용하였다. ARGON은 KARI와 TsAGI가 공동 개발한 고정익 항공기 설계 프로그램으로서 비행하중, 지상하중, 플러터 및 응력해석을 지원한다. 본 논문에서는 FAR 23급 항공기인 스마트 무인기의 비행하중해석을 ARGON을 이용하여 수행하였고 그 결과를 제시하였다.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제35권1호
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• pp.91-98
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• 2011

측풍 시 AREX 열차에 가해지는 공기역학적 하중을 측정하기 위하여 풍동시험이 수행되었다. 5% 축소 시험 모델은 연결부, 하부 및 대차부 등을 포함하여 가능한한 자세하게 모델링되었다. 시험에 사용된 풍동은 폭 4m $\times$ 높이 3m 의 시험부를 가진 한국항공우주연구원(KARI)의 중형 아음속 풍동이다. 두 종류의 선로 모형에 놓여진 열차 모델에 가해지는 공기역학적 하중과 모멘트는 요각에 따라 도시되었으며, 실험 조건에 따른 공력 계수의 특성이 분석되었다.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.231-251
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• 2016

This paper presents the experimental results of the wind tunnel tests for three symmetric, rectangular, tall building models on a typical open terrain considering the torsional motion-induced vibrations. The time histories of the wind pressure on these models under different reduced wind speeds and torsional amplitudes are obtained through the multiple point synchronous scanning pressure technique. Thereafter, the characteristics of both the Root Mean Square (RMS) coefficients and the spectra of the base shear/torque in the along-wind, across-wind, and torsional directions, respectively, are discussed. The results show that the RMS coefficients of the base shear/torque vary in the three directions with both the reduced wind speeds and the torsional vibration amplitudes. The variation of the RMS coefficients in the along-wind direction results mainly from the change of the aerodynamic forces, but sometimes from aeroelastic effects induced by torsional vibration. However, the variations of the RMS coefficients in the across-wind and torsional directions are caused by more equal weights of both the aerodynamic forces and the aeroelastic effects. As such, for the typical tall buildings, the modification of the aerodynamic forces in the along-wind, across-wind, and torsional directions, respectively, and the aeroelastic effects in the across-wind and torsional directions should be considered. It is identified that the torsional vibration amplitudes and the reduced wind speeds are two significant parameters for the aerodynamic forces on the structures in the three directions.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.125-137
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• 1996

Experimental wind tunnel tests have been attempted to investigate the aerodynamic characteristics of floating offshore structure using some types of scaled mldels. The static behaviors of lift, drag forces and pitching moment of its models are measured to exammine the relationship between wind loads and incidence angle, wind velocity, shape of models. The effect of solid ground has been obtained also.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.105-117
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• 2015

This paper presents a numerical characterization of real railway overhead cables based on computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Complete analysis of the aerodynamic coefficients of this type of cross section yields a more accurate modelling of pressure loads acting on moving cables than provided by current approaches used in design. Thus, the characterization of certain selected commercial cables is carried out in this work for different wind speeds and angles of attack. The aerodynamic lift and drag coefficients are herein determined for two different types of grooved cables, which establish a relevant data set for the railway industry. Finally, the influence of this characterization on the fluid-structure interaction (FSI) is proved, the static behavior of a catenary system is studied by means of the finite element method (FEM) in order to analyze the effect of different wind angles of attack on the stiffness distribution.

• Structural Monitoring and Maintenance
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.175-194
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• 2017

Research to date has mainly focused on structural analysis and design of wind turbines considering turbulent aerodynamic loading. The combined effects of wind and seismic loading have not been studied by many researchers. With the recent expansion of wind turbines into seismically active regions research is now needed into the implications of seismic loading coupled with turbulent aerodynamic loading. This paper proposes a monitoring procedure for onshore horizontal axis wind turbines (HAWTs) subjected to this combined loading regime. The paper examines the impact of seismic loading on the 5-MW baseline HAWT developed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). A modified version of FAST, an open-source program developed by NREL, is used to perform the dynamic analysis.

• 한국복합재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국복합재료학회 2004년도 추계학술발표대회 논문집
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• pp.125-130
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• 2004

This study proposes a development for the l-kW class small wind turbine system, which is applicable to relatively low wind speed region like Korea and has the variable pitch control mechanism. In the aerodynamic design of the wind turbine blade, parametric studies were carried out to determine an optimum aerodynamic configuration which is not only more efficient at low wind speed but whose diameter is not much larger than similar class other blades. A light composite structure, which can endure effectively various loads, was newly designed. In order to evaluate the structural design of the composite blade, the structural analysis was performed by the finite element method. Moreover both structural safety and aerodynamic performance were verified through the prototype test.