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FSI analysis on wind turbine blade (풍력발전기의 블레이드에 대한 FSI 해석)

  • Kim, Yun-Gi;Kim, Kyung-Chun
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2007.05b
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    • pp.2829-2832
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    • 2007
  • In this study, one-way fluid structure interaction analysis(FSI) on wind turbine blade was performed. Both a quantitative fluid analysis on 3-bladed wind turbine and a structural analysis using the surface pressure data resulting from fluid analysis were carried out. Streamlines and angle of attack was easily acquired from analysis results, we showed the inlet velocity that the stall begins to occur. In the structural analysis, structural displacement and maximum stress of the two comparative models was calculated. The location that has maximum stress was found. The pressure difference between back and front part of the blade increases as the inlet velocity increase. The torque and maximum with regard to inlet velocity was also presented.

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Seismic Perfomance Evaluation of Wind-Designed Steel Highrise Buildings Based on Linear Dynamic Analysis (내풍설계된 철골조 초고층건물의 선형동적해석에 의한 내진성능평가)

  • Lee Cheol-Ho;Kim Seon-Woong
    • Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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    • 2005.04a
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    • pp.652-659
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    • 2005
  • Even in moderate to low seismic regions like Korean peninsular where wind loading usually governs the structural design of a tall building, the probable structural impact of the design basis earthquake or the maximum credible earthquake on the selected structural system should be considered at least in finalizing the design. In this study, by using response spectrum analysis and linear time history analysis method, seismic performance evaluation was conducted for wind-designed concentrically braced steel highrise buildings. Both spectrum-compatible artificial accelerograms and recorded accelerograms were used as input ground motions for the time history analysis. The analysis results showed that wind-designed concentrically braced steel highrise buildings possess significantly increased elastic seismic capacity due to the system overstrength resulting from the wind-serviceability criterion and the width-to-thickness ratio limits on steel members. Time history analysis results generally tended to underestimate the seismic response as compared to those of response spectrum analysis.

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Evaluation of the Structural Stability of Platform Screen Door (PSD) due to Train Wind Pressure (열차 진입 시 풍압에 의한 완전 밀폐형 승강장 스크린 도어(PSD)시스템의 구조 안정성 평가)

  • Lee, Jae-Youl;Ryu, Bong-Jo;Kim, Dong-Hyun;Lee, Eun-Kyu;Shin, Kwang-Bok
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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    • v.9 no.5 s.36
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    • pp.594-600
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    • 2006
  • In this study, transient and quasi-static analysis were done for the evaluation of structural integrity of the platform screen door due to train wind pressure. Fluent 6.0 was used to calculate the train wind pressure, and Ansys 10.0 was used to evaluate the structural stability of platform screen door due to train wind pressure. Transient analysis was used to check the design requirements of platform screen door, and quasi-static analysis was introduced to save the calculating time and check quickly structural performances when compared to those of transient analysis. The results show that structural stability of the platform screen door under train wind pressure is proven and quasi-static analysis can quickly check the structural integrity of platform screen door.

Analysis of Wind Turbine system using Fluid Structure Diteraction (유동-구조 연성해석 기법을 이용한 풍력발전시스템 해석)

  • Kim, Yun-Gi;Kim, Kyung-Chun
    • 한국가시화정보학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.12a
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    • pp.141-144
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    • 2006
  • In this study, one-way fluid structure interaction analysis(FSI) on wind turbine blade was performed. Both a quantitative fluid analysis on 3-bladed wind turbine and a structural analysis using the surface pressure data resulting from fluid analysis were carried out. Streamlines and angle of attack was easily acquired from analysis results, we showed the inlet velocity that the stall begins to occur. In the structural analysis, structural displacement and maximum stress of the two comparative models was calculated. The location that has maximum stress was found. The pressure difference between back and front part of the blade increases as the inlet velocity increase. The torque and maximum with regard to inlet velocity was also presented.

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Spectral Fatigue Analysis for Topside Structure of Offshore Floating Vessel

  • Kim, Dae-Ho;Ahn, Jae-Woo;Park, Sung-Gun;Jun, Seock-Hee;Oh, Yeong-Tae
    • Journal of Advanced Research in Ocean Engineering
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    • v.1 no.4
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    • pp.239-251
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    • 2015
  • In this study, a spectral fatigue analysis was performed for the topside structure of an offshore floating vessel. The topside structure was idealized using beam elements in the SACS program. The fatigue analysis was carried out considering the wave and wind loads separately. For the wave-induced fatigue damage calculation, motion RAOs calculated from a direct wave load analysis and regular waves with different periods and unit wave heights were utilized. Then, the member end force transfer functions were generated covering all the loading conditions. Stress response transfer functions at each joint were produced using the specified SCFs and member end force transfer functions. fatigue damages were calculated using the obtained stress ranges, S-N curve, wave spectrum, heading probability of each loading condition, and their corresponding occurrences in the wave scatter diagrams. For the wind induced fatigue damage calculation, a dynamic wind spectral fatigue analysis was performed. First, a dynamic natural frequency analysis was performed to generate the structural dynamic characteristics, including the eigenvalues (natural frequencies), eigenvectors (mode shapes), and mass matrix. To adequately represent the dynamic characteristic of the structure, the number of modes was appropriately determined in the lateral direction. Second, a wind spectral fatigue analysis was performed using the mode shapes and mass data obtained from the previous results. In this analysis, the Weibull distribution of the wind speed occurrence, occurrence probability in each direction, damping coefficient, S-N curves, and SCF of each joint were defined and used. In particular, the wind fatigue damages were calculated under the assumption that the stress ranges followed a Rayleigh distribution. The total fatigue damages were calculated from the combination with wind and wave fatigue damages according to the DNV rule.

Wind loads on T-shaped and inclined free-standing walls

  • Geurts, Chris;van Bentum, Carine
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.83-94
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    • 2010
  • Wind tunnel measurements on T-shaped free-standing walls and inclined free-standing walls have been carried out. Mean net pressure coefficients have been derived and compared with previous research. It was observed that the high loads at the free ends are differently distributed than those derived from the pressure coefficients for free-standing walls in EN 1991-1-4. In addition net pressure coefficients based on extreme value analysis have been obtained. The lack of correlation of the wind induced pressures at windward and leeward side result in lower values for the net pressure coefficients when based on extreme value analysis. The results of this wind tunnel study have been included in Dutch guidelines for noise barriers.

Computational Analysis and an Application of Wind Environmental Effects for High-rise Buildings (초고층건물 주변의 풍환경에 대한 수치 해석 및 적용)

  • Chung Yungbea;Na Seonuk
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2001.10a
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    • pp.70-75
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    • 2001
  • This paper presents the results of numerical simulation of wind environment and wind coefficient around super high-rise building. The analysis of aerodynamic response due to wind-induced forces and wind effect to surrounding buildings is important to high-rise building. This paper simulates the wind force to the high-rise building and wind flow pattern around the high-rise building, and shows the usability of CFD analysis to design process of high-rise building. A Navier-Stokes-Solver (FLUENT) with Quick spatial discretization scheme and RNG $\kappa-\epsilon$ turbulence model has been applied to the computation of the three dimensional turbulent flow.

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Nonlinear aerostatic stability analysis of Hutong cable-stayed rail-cum-road bridge

  • Xu, Man;Guo, Weiwei;Xia, He;Li, Kebing
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.23 no.6
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    • pp.485-503
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    • 2016
  • To investigate the nonlinear aerostatic stability of the Hutong cable-stayed rail-cum-road bridge with ultra-kilometer main span, a FEM bridge model is established. The tri-component wind loads and geometric nonlinearity are taken into consideration and discussed for the influence of nonlinear parameters and factors on bridge resistant capacity of aerostatic instability. The results show that the effect of initial wind attack-angle is significant for the aerostatic stability analysis of the bridge. The geometric nonlinearities of the bridge are of considerable importance in the analysis, especially the effect of cable sag. The instable mechanism of the Hutong Bridge with a steel truss girder is the spatial combination of vertical bending and torsion with large lateral bending displacement. The design wind velocity is much lower than the static instability wind velocity, and the structural aerostatic resistance capacity can meet the requirement.

Errors in GEV analysis of wind epoch maxima from Weibull parents

  • Harris, R.I.
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.179-191
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    • 2006
  • Parent wind data are often acknowledged to fit a Weibull probability distribution, implying that wind epoch maxima should fall into the domain of attraction of the Gumbel (Type I) extreme value distribution. However, observations of wind epoch maxima are not fitted well by this distribution and a Generalised Extreme Value (GEV) analysis leading to a Type III fit empirically appears to be better. Thus there is an apparent paradox. The reasons why advocates of the GEV approach seem to prefer it are briefly summarised. This paper gives a detailed analysis of the errors involved when the GEV is fitted to epoch maxima of Weibull origin. It is shown that the results in terms of the shape parameter are an artefact of these errors. The errors are unavoidable with the present sample sizes. If proper significance tests are applied, then the null hypothesis of a Type I fit, as predicted by theory, will almost always be retained. The GEV leads to an unacceptable ambiguity in defining design loads. For these reasons, it is concluded that the GEV approach does not seem to be a sensible option.

A Numerical Analysis for the Strength Improvement of Composite Wind Turbine Blade (풍력발전기용 복합재 블레이드의 강도향상을 위한 수치해석)

  • Kwon, Oh-Heon;Kang, Ji-Woong;Jeong, Woo-Yul
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.7-12
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    • 2010
  • The average growth in the wind power energy market during the past five years has been 26% per year. Renewable energy resources, of which wind energy is prominent, are part of the solution to the global energy problem. Wind power system and the rotor blade concepts are reviewed, and loadings by wind and gravity as important factors for the mechanical performance of the materials are considered. So, the mechanical properties of fiber composite materials are discussed. In addition, it is necessary to analyze and evaluate the stress distribution and deformation for them in the design level. This study shows the result that CFRP rotor blade of wind turbine satisfies the strength and deformation through numerical analysis using the commercial finite element analysis program.