Flutter performance of bend-twist coupled large-scale wind turbine blades
- Title
- Flutter performance of bend-twist coupled large-scale wind turbine blades
- Author
- 하성규
- Keywords
- Bend-twist coupling; Large-scale blade; Flutter; Aero-elasticity
- Issue Date
- 2016-05
- Publisher
- ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF SOUND AND VIBRATION, v. 370, Page. 149-162
- Abstract
- The bend-twist coupling (BTC) is proven to be effective in mitigating the fatigue loads for large-scale wind turbine blades, but at the same time it may cause the risk of flutter instability. The BTC is defined as a feature of twisting of the blade induced by the primary bending deformation. In the classical flutter, the BTC arises from the aerodynamic loads changing with the angle of attack. In this study, the effects of the structural BTC on the flutter are investigated by considering the layup unbalances (ply angle, material and thickness of the composite laminates) in the NREL 5-MW wind turbine rotor blade of glass fiber/epoxy [0(2)/+45/-45]s laminates. It is numerically shown that the flutter speed may decrease by about 5 percent with unbalanced ply-angle only (one side angle, from 45 to 25). It was then demonstrated that the flutter performance of the wind turbine blade can be increased by using lighter and stiffer carbon fibers which ensures the higher structural BTC at the same time. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
- URI
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022460X16000614?via%3Dihubhttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11754/65549
- ISSN
- 0022-460X; 1095-8568
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.jsv.2016.01.032
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- COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING[S](공과대학) > MECHANICAL ENGINEERING(기계공학부) > Articles
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