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Highly Efficient Structural Optimization of Composite Rotor Blades Using Bézier Curves

Bézier 곡선을 이용한 고효율 복합재료 블레이드의 다중 최적 구조 설계

  • Bae, Jae-Seong (Department of Aerospace Information Engineering, Konkuk University) ;
  • Jung, Sung-Nam (Department of Aerospace Information Engineering, Konkuk University)
  • Received : 2020.10.20
  • Accepted : 2020.11.12
  • Published : 2020.12.31
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Abstract

In this work, a contour-based section analysis method incorporating the use of Bézier curves is attempted for the construction of optimal structural design framework of composite helicopter blades. The suggested section analysis method is able to analyze composite blades with solid cores made of arbitrary materials and geometric shapes. The contour-based section analysis method is integrated into a blade structural optimization framework to confirm the efficiency of the present approach. The numerical simulation result demonstrates that the optimized blade configurations are obtained with a reduction in mass by 52%, compared to the baseline blade. For the structural optimization of composite blades with 19 subsections, it takes about one hour for the successful optimization while satisfying all the design constraints considered in this study, which reveals the efficiency of the present approach.

본 연구에서는 매개변수곡선의 일종인 Bézier 곡선을 이용한 단면해석법을 개발하고, 이를 이용한 블레이드 최적구조설계 프레임워크를 구성하였다. 개발된 단면해석기법은 기존의 직선 세그먼트를 이용한 중심선기반 단면해석법의 효율성을 유지하면서 고형 블레이드 단면에 대한 해석이 가능한 특징이 있다. 본 연구에서 제안한 단면해석법을 예제 블레이드에 적용하고 구조 최적설계를 수행하여 설정된 구속조건을 모두 충족함과 동시에 기준형상대비 약 52% 질량이 감소된 최적 블레이드 형상을 도출하였다. 최적설계에는 총 19개의 블레이드 단면을 고려하였으며, 결과를 도출하는 데 대략 1시간 정도의 계산시간이 소요되었다. 본 연구를 통해 개발된 단면해석 기법과 최적설계 프레임워크의 효율성을 확인하였다.

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