• Wind and Structures
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.71-88
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• 2018

At the University of Western Ontario (UWO), numerical tools represented in semi-closed form solution for the conductors and finite element modeling of the lattice tower were developed and utilized significantly to assess the behavior of transmission lines under downburst wind fields. Although these tools were validated against other finite element analyses, it is essential to validate the findings of those tools using experimental data. This paper reports the first aeroelastic test for a multi-span transmission line under simulated downburst. The test has been conducted at the three-dimensional wind testing facility, the WindEEE dome, located at the UWO. The experiment considers various downburst locations with respect to the transmission line system. Responses obtained from the experiment are analyzed in the current study to identify the critical downburst locations causing maximum internal forces in the structure (i.e., potential failure modes), which are compared with the failure modes obtained from the numerical tools. In addition, a quantitative comparison between the measured critical responses obtained from the experiment with critical responses obtained from the numerical tools is also conducted. The study shows a very good agreement between the critical configurations of the downburst obtained from the experiment compared to those predicted previously by different numerical studies. In addition, the structural responses obtained from the experiment and those obtained from the numerical tools are in a good agreement where a maximum difference of 16% is found for the mean responses and 25% for the peak responses.

• 항공우주시스템공학회지
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• 제11권6호
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• pp.84-91
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• 2017

덕트 팬의 정지 비행시 동특성에 관한 연구를 수행하였다. 팬에 적용되는 블레이드에 대해서 단면 모델링을 수행하였으며, 로터 시스템의 구성요소들을 고려하여 해석 모델을 구축하였다. 로터의 회전수 및 피치각 조건에 따른 동특성 해석을 수행하였으며, 해석 결과 제안된 덕트 팬 시스템은 설계 운용범위 내에서 진동 증가와 같은 공탄성학적 불안정성이 적음을 확인하였다. 해석 절차의 검증을 위해 실제덕트 팬 회전 시험장치를 구성하였다. 기능 시험을 수행하여 덕트 팬 시험장치의 구성품간 거동 및 간섭 여부를 확인하였다. 동특성 시험을 위해 유압가진기를 사용하여 콜렉티브 가진을 하였으며, 비회전/회전시 블레이드의 고유진동수를 측정하였다. 시험 결과와 해석 결과의 비교를 통해 시험 장치와 해석 모델간의 상관관계가 잘 정립되어 있음을 확인하였다.