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Stress Analysis of Composite Rotor Blade with Sandwich Structure for Medium Class HAWT (좌굴 및 비선형성을 고려한 중형 수평축 풍력터빈용 샌드위치 복합재 회전날개의 설계 개선에 관한 연구)

  • 공창덕;오동우;방조혁
    • 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.

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The Analysis on Movie Costumes Related to the Roles -Focused on the Main Heroines in the Movie, "Cone with the Wind"- (역할에 따른 영화의상 분석 -영화 <바람과 함께 사라지다>의 주요 여배우를 중심으로-)

  • 이화영;이순홍
    • The Research Journal of the Costume Culture
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    • v.10 no.6
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    • pp.648-665
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    • 2002
  • This study is to analysis on movie costume including the personal characters, social influences and situational effects of the main heroines among the expressions of clothing through the movie, "Gone with the Wind" produced by the MGM Company in America in 1939 with the collapse of the social classes through the American Civil War as its setting. The range of this study is to look into the images of cinema costumes like the colors and silhouette related to the roles based on the movie. According to this study, first, we can see the changing process from crinoline to bustle styles by historical invastigations into clothing styles rather than the images of roles in the aspect of silhouette Scarlet of hanghty and challenging character is shawn in X-type silhouette mainly using capped sleeves and laces and Mellany of obedient and generous character, compared with Scarlet, is showing less detail effects, and is expressed in A-type silhouette of modesty and maturity. Second, there are remarkable differences of colors and details in which starlet who had the pioneer spirit used the vivid tones like red, green and black, and white laces and blades as an accent while Mellany who was considerate and soft used the dark tones like black and blue, and white and blue lace shawls And third, in images, Scarlet who was very positive in sociai activities is expressed as a elegance and romantic images in the sophisticated and modern styles but Mellany who was a good and steady housewife was shown as a elegance image in the mannish styles.

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An Analysis on the Value Chain and the Value System of the Korean Wind Power Industry (한국 풍력산업의 가치사슬 및 가치시스템 분석)

  • Ryu, Jae-Ho;Choi, Ta-Gwan;Park, Jung-Gu
    • Journal of Energy Engineering
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.46-57
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    • 2014
  • This study analyzes whether the value-added structure of Korean wind power industry exhibits a virtuous cycle through the value chain(VC) within wind power firms and the value system(VS) among the wind power industries, using a regression analysis based on a survey about Korean wind power companies. According to the VC, the government's R&D support is analyzed to have contributed to an increase in the R&D investments of the wind power companies. An increase in corporates' R&D investments has led to an increase in corporates' R&D outputs, and in turn, induced a remarkable increase in the amounts of production. But an increase in production has not led to a decrease in the costs of production, not resulting in an increase in profit rates per sales amount. In addition, while an increase in profit rates is analyzed to have contributed to an increase in production, this did not induce further investments in corporate's R&D. The virtuous cycle of the value chain in Korean wind power firms is, therefore, analyzed to be weak. Next, the VS is analyzed by dividing the whole chain into the system group including rotor blades, gear boxes, and power generators, and the structure group, such as towers. Two groups are analyzed to have mutually positive effects in the processes of the government's support for corporates' R&D, corporates' investment in R&D, R&D outputs, and profit rates per sales amount. Such mutual positive effects are, however, not found in the processes of the amounts of production and the costs of production. These results demonstrates that the value system of Korean wind power industry is not completed. This study has a policy implication to need further efforts to create the virtuous cycle in the VC and VS of Korean wind power industry.

Unguided Rocket Trajectory Analysis under Rotor Wake and External Wind (로터 후류와 외풍에 따른 무유도 로켓 궤적 변화 해석)

  • Kim, Hyeongseok;Chae, Sanghyun;Yee, Kwanjung
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.46 no.1
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    • pp.41-51
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    • 2018
  • Downwash from helicopter rotor blades and external winds from various maneuvering make an unguided rocket change its trajectory and range. For the prediction of the trajectory and range, it is essential to consider the downwash effect. In this study, an algorithm was developed to calculate 6-Degree-Of-Freedom(6 DOF) forces and moments exerting on the rocket, and total flight trajectory of a 2.75-inch unguided rocket in a helicopter downwash flow field. Using Actuator Disk Model(ADM) analysis result, the algorithm could analyze the entire trajectory in various initial launch condition such as launch angle, launch velocity, and external wind. The algorithm that considered the interference between a fuselage and external winds could predict the trajectory change more precisely than inflow model analysis. Using the developed algorithm, the attitude and trajectory change mechanism by the downwash effect were investigated analyzing the effective angle of attack change and characteristics of pitching stability of the unguided rocket. Also, the trajectory and range changes were analyzed by considering the downwash effect with external winds. As a result, it was concluded that the key factors of the rocket range change were downwash area and magnitude which effect on the rocket, and the secondary factors were the dynamic pressure of the rocket and the interference between a fuselage and external winds. In tailwind case which was much influential on the range characteristics than other wind cases, the range of the rocket rose as increasing the tailwind velocity. However, there was a limit that the range of the rocket did not increase more than the specific tailwind velocity.

Aerodynanamic design and performance analysis of a 5kW HAWT rotor blades (5Kw급 수평축 풍력 터빈 로터블레이드의 공력 설게 및 성능예측)

  • Kim, Mun-Oh;Kim, Bum-Suk;Mo, Jang-Ho;Lee, Young-Ho
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2010.06a
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    • pp.182.1-182.1
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    • 2010
  • 현재 전 세계적으로 가장 널리 개발하고 보급되어지고 있는 풍력산업의 시장 규모는 매년 확대되고 있다. 특히 소형 풍력발전 시스템은 낙도 등의 전력 공급이 어려운 지역에 경제성 있는 전력 보급을 가능하게 한다. 국내의 미전화 지역과 일반 가정에서 풍력 에너지 자원을 적극 활용 개발하기 위해서 보다 우수한 성능의 풍력발전기용 블레이드를 설계하고자, 공기역학적인 최적설계에 대해 연구함으로써 추후 보급형 풍력발전 시스템의 개발에 필요한 설계 기술을 확립하고자한다. 본 연구는 설계된 블레이드의 유동해석 및 성능예측을 위하여 경제적으로 많은 지원이 필요한 대규모 풍동실험이 아닌 상용 CFD를 사용하여 보다 효율적으로 우수한 성능을 가지는 풍력 터빈을 설계함에 있다. Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes 방정식에 기반을 둔 CFD의 경우 이론적으로 명확한 해석이 가능하고, 실제 터빈의 운전 환경과 동일한 다양한 물리적 변수를 입력 데이터로서 활용할 수 있는 장점이 있기 때문에 풍력 터빈의 설계 과정에서 반영된 미소한 블레이드 형상변화 및 운전 조건의 변화에 따른 유동장의 변화 및 풍력터빈 성능을 정확히 예측할 수 있는 장점을 가지고 있다.

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A Study on The Measurement of Vibration Characteristics by Iteration of The Rotor Blade and The Front Vortex (로터 블레이드와 전방와류의 상호작용에 의한 진동특성 측정에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Myoung-Ok;Choi, Jong-Soo;Rhee, Wook
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2005.05a
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    • pp.170-175
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    • 2005
  • The focus of this paper is to observe the aerodynamic and vibration characteristics of the NACA0012 blade(AR=16.6) fixed on the lower surface of the wind tunnel, by changing air speed and the blade's angle of attack. After fixing a slit-typed vortex generator on the front of the blade, it could be observed that the vibrational characteristics caused by interactions between vortex and blade through the 5-hole pilot tubes. And, also, two different blades in stiffness had been prepared for observing those characteristics above in this experiment. The results were compared with the given stiffness of blade, as well. According to the results, it is clear to recognize that the vibration spectrum increases while air speed and angle of attack increase, and, also, less stiffness means bigger vibration spectrum.

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The Experimental Investigation of the Secondary Flow and Losses Within the Plane Turbine Cascade Passage (선형터빈 케스케이드 통로내의 2차 유동과 손실에 관한 연구)

  • 이기백;양장식;나종문
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.784-795
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    • 1995
  • This paper represents the results of the experiments of the three-dimensional flow and the aerodynamic loss caused by the three-dimensional flow within the plane bucket blades. To research the secondary flow and the aerodynamic loss, the large-scale plane bucket blade of lst-stage in the low pressure steam turbine is made of FRP. The detailed investigation of the secondary flow and the aerodynamic loss using 5-hole pressure probe within turbine cascade has been carried out in the low speed wind tunnel. The limiting streamlines of the suction and endwall surface have been visualized by the oil film method. The flow visualization of the secondary flow has been performed by the laser light sheet technique and image processing system. By using the method mentioned above, it is possible to observe the evolution of the pitchwise mass-averaged flow deviation angle and total pressure loss coefficient, the secondary flow, and the aerodynamic loss through the cascade.

Numerical and experimental investigation on the performance of three newly designed 100 kW-class tidal current turbines

  • Song, Mu-Seok;Kim, Moon-Chan;Do, In-Rok;Rhee, Shin-Hyung;Lee, Ju-Hyun;Hyun, Beom-Soo
    • International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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    • v.4 no.3
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    • pp.241-255
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    • 2012
  • Three types of 100 kW-class tidal stream turbines are proposed and their performance is studied both numerically and experimentally. Following a wind turbine design procedure, a base blade is derived and two additional blades are newly designed focusing more on efficiency and cavitation. For the three designed turbines, a CFD is performed by using FLUENT. The calculations predict that the newly designed turbines perform better than the base turbine and the tip vortex can be reduced with additional efficiency increase by adopting a tip rake. The performance of the turbines is tested in a towing tank with 700 mm models. The scale problem is carefully investigated and the measurements are compared with the CFD results. All the prediction from the CFD is supported by the model experiment with some quantitative discrepancy. The maximum efficiencies are 0.49 (CFD) and 0.45 (experiment) at TSR 5.17 for the turbine with a tip rake.

A novel approach to damage localisation based on bispectral analysis and neural network

  • Civera, M.;Fragonara, L. Zanotti;Surace, C.
    • Smart Structures and Systems
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    • v.20 no.6
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    • pp.669-682
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    • 2017
  • The normalised version of bispectrum, the so-called bicoherence, has often proved a reliable method of damage detection on engineering applications. Indeed, higher-order spectral analysis (HOSA) has the advantage of being able to detect non-linearity in the structural dynamic response while being insensitive to ambient vibrations. Skewness in the response may be easily spotted and related to damage conditions, as the majority of common faults and cracks shows bilinear effects. The present study tries to extend the application of HOSA to damage localisation, resorting to a neural network based classification algorithm. In order to validate the approach, a non-linear finite element model of a 4-meters-long cantilever beam has been built. This model could be seen as a first generic concept of more complex structural systems, such as aircraft wings, wind turbine blades, etc. The main aim of the study is to train a Neural Network (NN) able to classify different damage locations, when fed with bispectra. These are computed using the dynamic response of the FE nonlinear model to random noise excitation.

Study of an AI Model for Airfoil Parameterization and Aerodynamic Coefficient Prediction from Image Data (이미지 데이터를 이용한 익형 매개변수화 및 공력계수 예측을 위한 인공지능 모델 연구)

  • Seung Hun Lee;Bo Ra Kim;Jeong Hun Lee;Joon Young Kim;Min Yoon
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Visualization
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.83-90
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    • 2023
  • The shape of an airfoil is a critical factor in determining aerodynamic characteristics such as lift and drag. Aerodynamic properties of an airfoil have a decisive impact on the performance of various engineering applications, including airplane wings and wind turbine blades. Therefore, it is essential to analyze the aerodynamic characteristics of airfoils. Various analytical tools such as experiments, computational fluid dynamics, and Xfoil are used to perform these analyses, but each tool has its limitation. In this study, airfoil parameterization, image recognition, and artificial intelligence are combined to overcome these limitations. Image and coordinate data are collected from the UIUC airfoil database. Airfoil parameterization is performed by recognizing images from image data to build a database for deep learning. Trained model can predict the aerodynamic characteristics not only of airfoil images but also of sketches. The mean absolute error of untrained data is 0.0091.