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Material Selection Of Wind Turbine Blade Using Finite Element Method
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AUTHOR(S)
Diaaeldin M. Elsherif, Ayman A. Abd El-Wahab, Ramadan Badawy Mohamed Elgamsy, Mohamed Hazem Abdellatif
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ABSTRACT
In this paper the selection of material for a horizontal axis wind turbine blade is done using ANSYS Fluid-Structure Interaction simulation which is composed of two main parts. The first part is a computational fluid dynamic simulation of the fluid flow around the blade geometry to get the pressure load acting on the blade due to wind. The second part is a finite element analysis of the blade to get the deformation and stress distribution due to pressure load and its rotation. A study of several materials is made in this paper to select material based on total deformation, stress distribution and maximum equivalent stress (von-Mises).
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