• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.288-294
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• 2010

In recent years, wind energy has been the world's fastest growing source of energy. This paper describes the structural design and analysis of composite blade for 2 kW-level HAWT (horizontal axis wind turbine). The aerodynamic design and force, which are required to design and analyze a composite blade structurally, are calculated through BEMT(blade element momentum theory) implemented in public code PROPID. To obtain the equivalent material properties of filament wound composite blades, the rule-of-mixture is applied using the basic material properties of fiber and matrix, respectively. Lay-up sequence, ply thickness and ply angle are designed to satisfy the loading conditions. Structural analysis by using commercial software ABAQUS is performed to compute the displacement and strength ratio of filament wound composite blades.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.28-33
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• 2011

In this paper, structural design for 2kW class composite blade is performed by using design of experiment(DOE). A full factorial design is applied to meet the design specifications at the manufacturing process. The analysis of variance(ANOVA) is made in order to determine the significance of effects in an analysis. Structural analysis by using of commercial software ABAQUS is performed to compute the displacement and safety factor of filament wound composite blade. The results show that the proposed method is suitable to analyze the factors at the design of wind turbine blade.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.87-94
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• 2001

Filament winding process is a comparatively simple operation in which continuous reinforcements in the form of roving are wound over a rotating mandrel. And now it is well established as a versatile method for storage tanks and pipe for the chemical and other industries. In this study, tensile strength of a filament wound ring specimens were evaluated by split disk test fixture and dress disk test fixture. The results obtained from experiments were compared with the theoretical values obtained by the rule of mixture. And the purpose of this paper is to suggest an appropriate test method for the evaluation of tensile properties of filament wound structures. The tensile strength of a ring specimens tested by the dress disk test showed better agreement with the theoretical values than of a ring specimen tested by the split disk test because the stress concentration in edges of s split disk test fixture is more severe than the that of dress disk test fixture. The results showed that the tensile strength of a ring specimen was influenced by the geometry of test fixture, the continuity of fibers, fiber-tension, fiber-end and stress concentration in specimen.