Hao Cheng, Guangsheng Du^*, Meng Zhang, Kun Wang, Wenbin Bai

FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.16, No.4, pp. 685-698, 2020, DOI:10.32604/fdmp.2020.09673

Abstract The determination of the circulation for wind turbine blades is an important problem in engineering. In the present study, we develop a specific approach to evaluate the integral that represents mathematically the circulation. First the potentialities of the method are assessed using a two-dimensional NACA64_A17 airfoil as a testbed and evaluating the influence of different integration paths and angles of attack on the circulation value. Then the method is applied to blades with different relative heights in order to provide useful reference data to be used for the optimization and reverse design of wind turbine More >

Ajay Veludurthi¹, Venkateshwarlu Bolleddu^2,*

Energy Engineering, Vol.117, No.4, pp. 237-248, 2020, DOI:10.32604/EE.2020.011304

Abstract Mechanical characteristics of small wind turbine blades of National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) 63-415 series with different Univinyl (UV) foam alignments have been evaluated experimentally using Universal Testing Machine and numerically using Finite Element Analysis (FEA) software ANSYS. The wind turbine blade models considered are selected from the NACA 63415 series to give a power output of 1 kW. The blades in this study are made like a sandwich beam structure. The outermost portion of the blade is made of glass fiber reinforced plastics with epoxy resin as composite and Uni-vinyl foam alignments are… More >

Lanting Zhang, Laifu Guo, Qiang Rong^*

Energy Engineering, Vol.117, No.4, pp. 195-207, 2020, DOI:10.32604/EE.2020.010617

Abstract The various ply parameters of composite wind turbine blade have crucial influence, of respectively varying degree, on the static strength and stiffness of the blade, elements closely related to its performance. In this article, the method of the single-parameter sensitivity analysis is presented. A 1.5 MW wind turbine blade is considered as the study object, where the load of the blade is calculated and the respective finite element model is established. According to engineering practice, the investigation range of ply parameters is determined, and the test design scheme of ply parameter for the blade is… More >

Ajay Veludurthi¹, Venkateshwarlu Bolleddu^2,*

Energy Engineering, Vol.117, No.2, pp. 49-61, 2020, DOI:10.32604/EE.2020.010666

Abstract This work focused on modal and harmonic analysis of small wind turbine blades taken from the NACA 63415 series. The sandwich structure type composite blade is fabricated from GFRP and epoxy with Uni-vinyl hard foams of different alignments as stiffeners. In this work, the modal and harmonic analysis of different varieties of blades like solid, hallow and rectangular alignment blades is carried out by the finite element method using ANSYS 18.1 software. From Finite Element Analysis, the natural frequencies, amplitudes and mode shapes are obtained. Based on the working principle of wind turbine blades, the More >

A. Joshuva^1,*, V. Sugumaran²

Structural Durability & Health Monitoring, Vol.13, No.4, pp. 399-416, 2019, DOI:10.32604/sdhm.2019.03014

Abstract Wind energy is considered as a alternative renewable energy source due to its low operating cost when compared with other sources. The wind turbine is an essential system used to change kinetic energy into electrical energy. Wind turbine blades, in particular, require a competitive condition inspection approach as it is a significant component of the wind turbine system that costs around 20-25 percent of the total turbine cost. The main objective of this study is to differentiate between various blade faults which affect the wind turbine blade under operating conditions using a machine learning approach… More >

Yinhu Qiao^1,*, Chunyan Zhang¹, Jiang Han²

Sound & Vibration, Vol.53, No.1, pp. 14-24, 2019, DOI:10.32604/sv.2019.04120

Abstract This paper presents a theoretical analysis of vibration control technology of wind turbine blades made of piezoelectric intelligent structures. The design of the blade structure, which is made from piezoelectric material, is approximately equivalent to a flat shell structure. The differential equations of piezoelectric shallow shells for vibration control are derived based on piezoelectric laminated shell theory. On this basis, wind turbine blades are simplified as elastic piezoelectric laminated shells. We establish the electromechanical coupling system dynamic model of intelligent structures and the dynamic equation of composite piezoelectric flat shell structures by analyzing simulations of More >

Shunhua Chen^1,*, Shinobu Yoshimura¹, Kaworu Yodo², Naoto Mitsume¹, Yasunori Yusa³, Tomonori Yamada¹, Chisachi Kato⁴, Shori Orimo⁴, Yoshinobu Yamade⁵, Akiyoshi Iida⁶

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.21, No.3, pp. 60-60, 2019, DOI:10.32604/icces.2019.05361

Abstract With the pressing requirement of wind energy capacity, the wind turbine blade size has been getting larger and larger in recent decades. For such a large-size blade, it is of prime importance to accurately evaluate the mechanical response under various wind loading conditions. In this work, we present a computational framework to achieve this end. Firstly, a finite element model for a 5MW blade is established according to the well-known NREL report. A composite laminated element is adopted to describe the blade structure. The effectiveness of this model is validated by means of eigenfrequency analysis.… More >

Yasunori Yusa^1,*, Tomoshi Miyamura², Tomonori Yamada³, Shinobu Yoshimura³

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.21, No.3, pp. 58-58, 2019, DOI:10.32604/icces.2019.05231

Abstract In a wind turbine blade, laminated plates consisting of fiber reinforced plastic materials are generally used due to its high specific strength. We have been developing a large-scale finite element solver to analyze the wind turbine blade structure. For such a structure, the laminated finite element is frequently used in modeling. Each laminated finite element has multiple layers, each of which is an orthotropic body in order to model the layered fiber reinforced materials with different fiber directions. Also, since a realistic wind turbine blade structure generally requires a large number of finite elements for… More >

A. Joshuva¹, V. Sugumaran²

Structural Durability & Health Monitoring, Vol.13, No.2, pp. 181-203, 2019, DOI:10.32604/sdhm.2019.00287

Abstract Wind turbine blades are generally manufactured using fiber type material because of their cost effectiveness and light weight property however, blade get damaged due to wind gusts, bad weather conditions, unpredictable aerodynamic forces, lightning strikes and gravitational loads which causes crack on the surface of wind turbine blade. It is very much essential to identify the damage on blade before it crashes catastrophically which might possibly destroy the complete wind turbine. In this paper, a fifteen tree classification based machine learning algorithms were modelled for identifying and detecting the crack on wind turbine blades. The More >

A. Joshuva¹, V. Sugumaran²

Structural Durability & Health Monitoring, Vol.11, No.1, pp. 69-90, 2017, DOI:10.3970/sdhm.2017.012.069

Abstract Renewable energy sources are considered much in energy fields because of the contemporary energy calamities. Among the important alternatives being considered, wind energy is a durable competitor because of its dependability due to the development of the innovations, comparative cost effectiveness and great framework. To yield wind energy more proficiently, the structure of wind turbines has turned out to be substantially bigger, creating conservation and renovation works troublesome. Due to various ecological conditions, wind turbine blades are subjected to vibration and it leads to failure. If the failure is not diagnosed early, it will lead… More >