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Development of nonlinear flat shell element with nonlinear thickness variation for highly flexible wind turbine blade

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  • Moon, Hyeongmin
  • Cho, Haeseong
  • Theodossiades, Stephanos
  • Hajjaj, Amal Z.
  • Kim, Taeseong

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Large deformation from continuously varied thicknesses on existing and wind turbine blade shell structures is investigated. Various structure models having complicated outer shapes and thickness variations are considered and validated in this paper. A co-rotational method is developed to analyze geometric nonlinearity with a triangular shell structure. The updated stiffness matrix from interpolated thickness function and integral formulation is suggested to consider complicated geometry and thickness variation. Moreover, the co-rotational flat shell element based on the updated stiffness matrix is developed to analyze various nonlinear shell structures, which are the main feature of this research. The numerical analysis for structure deformations show well matched trends in static load analysis. Furthermore, the deformation of a simplified flexible wind turbine blade having tapered geometry and various thickness cases is adopted as a practical case. Moreover, modal analysis for composite beam structure is performed to verify the dynamic problems. The structural behaviors of the nonlinear thickness shell are validated against the solid and the shell models in commercial software, ABAQUS.

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  • Moon, Hyeongmin & Cho, Haeseong & Theodossiades, Stephanos & Hajjaj, Amal Z. & Kim, Taeseong, 2024. "Development of nonlinear flat shell element with nonlinear thickness variation for highly flexible wind turbine blade," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 235(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:renene:v:235:y:2024:i:c:s0960148124013478
    DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2024.121279
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