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Study on Structural Design of Glass/epoxy Composite Blade and Tower of Vertical Axis Wind Turbine System

수직축 풍력 발전 시스템의 유리/에폭시 복합재 블레이드 및 타워 구조 설계 연구

  • Park, Hyunbum (Dept. of Defense Science & Technology-Aircraft System Engineering, Howon University)
  • Received : 2018.05.11
  • Accepted : 2018.06.23
  • Published : 2018.06.29
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Abstract

This study is to propose the structural design and analysis procedure about composite blade and tower of vertical axis wind turbine technology. In this study, structural design of tower for vertical axis wind turbine was performed after vertical blade design and manufacturing. The structural design requirement and specification of blade and tower was investigated. After tower of structural design, the structural analysis of the tower was conducted by the finite element method. It was performed that the stress, deformation and natural frequency analysis at the applied loading. The design modification of tower configuration was proposed by structural analysis. It was confirmed that the final designed tower structure is safety through the structural analysis.

본 연구에서 수직축 풍력 발전기의 복합재 블레이드 및 타워에 대한 구조 설계 및 해석 방안을 제시하였다. 본 연구에서 수직축 블레이드의 설계 및 제작 수행 후 풍력 발전기 타워의 구조 설계를 수행하였다. 먼저 블레이드와 타워의 설계 요구 조건 및 사양이 정립되었다. 타워 구조 설계 이후 유한 요소 해석을 통하여 타워의 구조 해석을 수행하였다. 적용된 하중에서 응력, 변형, 고유 진동수 해석이 수행되었다. 구조 해석을 통해 타워 형상의 개선 설계 방안을 제시하였다. 최종 설계된 타워 구조는 구조 해석을 통해 안전한 것으로 확인되었다.

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