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Wind Turbine Blade Design using Design of Experiments (실험계획법을 이용한 풍력발전기용 블레이드의 설계)

  • Kang, Ki-Weon;Lee, Seung-Pyo;Chang, Se-Myong;Lee, Jang-Ho
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.11a
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    • pp.422-422
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    • 2009
  • This paper describes the structural design of small wind turbine blade by using design of experiments. Blade structure consists of skin, spar and foam. The materials for skin and spar are a kind of Glass/Epoxy and form is polyurethane. It has 7 lay-ups with different ply angle. A factorial design is applied to design the ply angles considering manufacturing constraints and to investigate the safety factor which is calculated by structural analysis. In order to perform the structural analysis, the commercial software ABAQUS is used. Tsai-Wu failure criterion is chosen to compute safety factor. The determination of the significance of effects in the experiments is made through the analysis of variance. The results show that ply angle at skin affects the safety factor of wind turbine blade. And from this result, optimal ply angles of composite blade are achieved.

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Size-dependent vibration analysis of laminated composite plates

  • Shahsavari, Davood;Karami, Behrouz;Janghorban, Maziar
    • Advances in nano research
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    • v.7 no.5
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    • pp.337-349
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    • 2019
  • The size-dependent vibration analysis of a cross-/angle-ply laminated composite plate when embedded on the Pasternak elastic foundation and exposed to an in-plane magnetic field are investigated by adopting an analytical eigenvalue approach. The formulation, which is based on refined-hyperbolic-shear-deformation-plate theory in conjunction with the Eringen Nonlocal Differential Model (ENDM), is tested against considering problems for which numerical/analytical solutions available in the literature. The findings of this study demonstrated the role of magnetic field, size effect, elastic foundation coefficients, geometry, moduli ratio, lay-up numbers and fiber orientations on the nonlocal frequency of cross-/angle-ply laminated composite plates.

Optimal lay-up of hybrid composite beams, plates and shells using cellular genetic algorithm

  • Rajasekaran, S.;Nalinaa, K.;Greeshma, S.;Poornima, N.S.;Kumar, V. Vinoop
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.16 no.5
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    • pp.557-580
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    • 2003
  • Laminated composite structures find wide range of applications in many branches of technology. They are much suited for weight sensitive structures (like aircraft) where thinner and lighter members made of advanced fiber reinforced composite materials are used. The orientations of fiber direction in layers and number of layers and the thickness of the layers as well as material of composites play a major role in determining the strength and stiffness. Thus the basic design problem is to determine the optimum stacking sequence in terms of laminate thickness, material and fiber orientation. In this paper, a new optimization technique called Cellular Automata (CA) has been combined with Genetic Algorithm (GA) to develop a different search and optimization algorithm, known as Cellular Genetic Algorithm (CGA), which considers the laminate thickness, angle of fiber orientation and the fiber material as discrete variables. This CGA has been successfully applied to obtain the optimal fiber orientation, thickness and material lay-up for multi-layered composite hybrid beams plates and shells subjected to static buckling and dynamic constraints.

A discussion on simple third-order theories and elasticity approaches for flexure of laminated plates

  • Singh, Gajbir;Rao, G. Venkateswara;Iyengar, N.G.R.
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.121-133
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    • 1995
  • It is well known that two-dimensional simplified third-order theories satisfy the layer interface continuity of transverse shear strains, thus these theories violate the continuity of transverse shear stresses when two consecutive layers differ either in fibre orientation or material. The third-order theories considered herein involve four/or five dependent unknowns in the displacement field and satisfy the condition of vanishing of transverse shear stresses at the bounding planes of the plate. The objective of this investigation is to examine (i) the flexural response prediction accuracy of these third-order theories compared to exact elasticity solution (ii) the effect of layer interface continuity conditions on the flexural response. To investigate the effect of layer interface continuity conditions, three-dimensional elasticity solutions are developed by enforcing the continuity of different combinations of transverse stresses and/or strains at the layer interfaces. Three dimensional twenty node solid finite element (having three translational displacements as degrees of freedom) without the imposition of any of the conditions on the transverse stresses and strains is also employed for the flexural analysis of the laminated plates for the purposes of comparison with the above theories. These shear deformation theories and elasticity approaches in terms of accuracy, adequacy and applicability are examined through extensive numerical examples.

Autonomous Vehicle Tracking Using Two TDNN Neural Networks (뉴럴네트워크를 이용한 무인 전방차량 추적방법)

  • Lee, Hee-Man
    • The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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    • v.3 no.5
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    • pp.1037-1045
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    • 1996
  • In this paper, the parallel model for stereo camera is employed to find the heralding angle and the distance between a leading vehicle and the following vehicle, BART(Binocular Autonomous Research Team vehicle). Two TDNNs (Time Delay Neural Network) such as S-TDNN and A-TDNN are introduced to control BART. S-TDNN controls the speed of the following vehicle while A-TDNN controls the steering angle of BATR. A human drives BART to collect data which are used for training the said neural networks. The trained networks performed the vehicle tracking function satisfactorily under the same driving conditions performed by the human driver. The neural network approach has good portability which decreases costs and saves development time for the different types of vehicles.

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Natural vibrations and hydroelastic stability of laminated composite circular cylindrical shells

  • Bochkareva, Sergey A.;Lekomtsev, Sergey V.
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.81 no.6
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    • pp.769-780
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    • 2022
  • This paper studies the dynamic behavior of laminated composite circular cylindrical shells interacting with a fluid. The mathematical formulation of the dynamic problem for an elastic body is developed based on the variational principle of virtual displacements and the relations of linear elasticity theory. The behavior of an ideal compressible fluid is described by the potential theory, the equations of which together with boundary conditions are transformed to a weak form. The hydrodynamic pressure exerted by the fluid on the internal surface of the shell is calculated according to the linearized Bernoulli equation. The numerical implementation of the mathematical formulation has been done using the semi-analytical finite element method. The influence of the ply angle and lay-up configurations of laminated composites on the natural vibration frequencies and the hydroelastic stability boundary have been analyzed for shells with different geometrical dimensions and under different kinematic boundary conditions set at their edges. It has been found that the optimal value of the ply angle depends on the level of filling of the shell with a fluid. The obtained results support the view that by choosing the optimal configuration of the layered composite material it is possible to change upwards or downwards the frequency and mode shape, as well as the critical velocity for stability loss over a wide range.

Optimal Stacking Sequence Design of Laminated Composites under Buckling Loads (좌굴하중하에서 복합적층판의 최적 적층 설계)

  • 윤성진;김관영;황운봉;하성규
    • Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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    • v.1 no.2
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    • pp.107-121
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    • 1996
  • An optimization procedure is proposed to determine the optimal stacking sequence on the buckling of laminated composite plates with midplane symmetry under various loading conditions. Classical lamination theory is used for the determination of the critical buckling load of simply supported angle-ply laminates. Analysis is performed by the Galerkin method and Rayleigh-Ritz method. The approximate solution of buckling is replaced by the algorithms that produce generalized eigenvalue problem. Direct search technique is employed to solve the optimization problem effectively. A series of computations is carried out for plates having different aspect ratios, different load ratios and different number of lay-ups.

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Torsional Buckling Behavior of Composite Cylinder (복합재 실린더의 비틀림 좌굴 특성 연구)

  • 이춘우;권진회
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society For Composite Materials Conference
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    • 2002.10a
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    • pp.92-95
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    • 2002
  • A nonlinear finite element method is presented to evaluate the torsional buckling moment and failure of composite laminated cylinders. For the progressive failure analysis, the complete unloading method is used based on the maximum stress failure criteria. An arc-length method is incorporated to trace the postbuckling equilibrium path. Present finite element method is verified by the existing experimental and analytical results. The results of the parametric study show that the torsional buckling moments are sensitive to the geometric change, but are not much affected by the lay-up angle. All cylinders tested numerically show the unstable torsional buckling, and therefore the torsional buckling always leads to the catastrophic failure.

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Design of a Composite Flywheel Rotor for Energy Storage System (에너지 저장시스템용 복합재 플라이휠 로터의 설계)

  • 정희문;최상규;하성규
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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    • v.19 no.7
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    • pp.1665-1674
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    • 1995
  • An optimum design has been performed to maximize specific energy (SED) of composite flywheel rotor for energy storage system. The flywheel rotor is assumed to be an axisymmetric thick laminated shell with a plane strain state for structural analysis. For the structural analysis the centrifugal force is considered and the stiffness matrix equation was derived for each ring considering the interferences between the rings. The global stiffness matrix was derived by integrating the local stiffness matrix satisfying the conditions of force and displacement compatibilities. Displacements are then calculated from the global stiffness matrix and the stresses in each ring are also calculated. 3-D intra-laminar quadratic Tsai-Wu criterion is then used for the strength analysis. An optimum procedure is also developed to find the optimal interferences and lay up angle to maximize SED using the sensitivity analysis.

Structural Design and Analysis for Small Wind Turbine Blade (초소형 풍력발전용 블레이드에 대한 구조설계 몇 해석)

  • Lee, Seung-Pyo;Kang, Ki-Weon;Chang, Se-Myong;Lee, Jang-Ho
    • 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.