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NSE Composites: Energy, Process and Utilities Case Study

技术
  • 分析与建模 - 数字孪生/模拟
适用行业
  • 可再生能源
适用功能
  • 产品研发
用例
  • 数字孪生
  • 预测性维护
服务
  • 软件设计与工程服务
挑战
NSE Composites was tasked with analyzing loads, stresses, and fatigue for an innovative, sweep-twist wind turbine blade design that is targeted to capture significantly more energy on light-windspeed sites. The basic physics and economics of wind turbine blades are relatively simple. Their power output is roughly proportional to the square of blade length. This relationship pushes designers to create increasingly longer blades for harvesting additional kilowatts. Secondly, as blades get longer, weight increases—by approximately the cube of the length—leading to higher raw material costs. This correlation sends designers in search of weight-efficient geometries that are strong and rigid enough to weather the increased loading inherent in longer blades.
关于客户
NSE Composites is a Seattle-based company that has been providing composite engineering solutions to a variety of aerospace, wind, and other customers since 1996. NSE’s engineering team has broad experience with composite materials in aerospace structures, which enables it to bring an applied, results-oriented approach to a wide variety of composite product development projects. In addition, NSE is actively involved in composite structures R&D and the development of analysis software tools. The company offers services in the areas of design, analysis, testing, and structural certification.
解决方案
NSE Composites used SIMULIA’s Abaqus finite element analysis (FEA) to validate the overall blade twisting behavior as well as buckling and fatigue. The software’s ongoing developments in simulating composites, crack generation, and fracture kept pace with the projects as they moved toward larger and more complex models. The software was able to handle composite properties and control material orientation. It could calculate blade-tip deflection (to avoid “tower strike”) and accurately predict both torsional response (including twist angle, which is key to load-shedding) and shear-compression buckling stability (associated with sweep-twist) of composite sandwich structures. An additional capability key to wind blade analysis is the extraction of accurate equivalent beam properties directly from a solid 3D FEM.
运营影响
  • The sweep-twist design’s promised load-shedding response resulted in a 12 percent power output boost over similarly-rated turbines now in operation—without load increase.
  • The design met critical buckling limits at more than five times those of extreme wind conditions—a large margin of safety driven by the fact that stiffness to limit deflection, rather than ultimate material strength, was the key structural criteria.
  • The prototypes were also field-tested, generating extensive data (as well as power) for several months in Tehachapi, CA—site of the TerraGen commercial wind facility and also one of the largest wind generation areas in the country.
数量效益
  • 12 percent power output boost over similarly-rated turbines now in operation.
  • The design met critical buckling limits at more than five times those of extreme wind conditions.

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