Box-Beam Active Rotor Blades

Author(s):  
Ranjan Ganguli ◽  
Dipali Thakkar ◽  
Sathyamangalam Ramanarayanan Viswamurthy
Keyword(s):  
AIAA Journal ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 38 (7) ◽  
pp. 1125-1131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aditi Chattopadhyay ◽  
Qiang Liu ◽  
Haozhong Gu

AIAA Journal ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 1125-1131
Author(s):  
Aditi Chattopadhyay ◽  
Qiang Liu ◽  
Haozhong Gu

2002 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 847-860 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aditi Chattopadhyay ◽  
Jong-Sun Kim ◽  
Qiang Liu

The use of segmented constrained layer damping treatment and closed loop control is investigated for improved rotor aeromechanical stability. The rotor blade load-carrying member is modeled using a composite box beam with arbitrary wall thickness. The ACLs are bonded to the upper and lower surfaces of the box beam to provide active and passive damping in the aeromechanical stability analysis. A finite element model based on a hybrid displacement theory is used to accurately capture the transverse shear effects in the composite primary structure, the viscoelastic and the piezoelectric layers within the ACL. The Pitt-Peters dynamic inflow model is used in the air resonance analysis under hover conditions. Rigid body pitch and roll degrees of freedom and fundamental flap and lead-lag modes are considered in this analysis. A transformation matrix is introduced to transform the time-variant system to a time-invariant system. A LQG controller is designed for the transformed system based on the available measurement output. The control performance is compared with the results of the open loop and the passive control systems. Numerical results indicate that the proposed control system with surface bonded ACL damping treatment significantly increases rotor lead-lag regressive modal damping in the coupled rotor-body system.


PCI Journal ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 83-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jang-Ho Jay Kim ◽  
Jin Won Nam ◽  
Ho Jin Kim ◽  
Jae Heung Kim ◽  
Sung Bae Kim ◽  
...  

2012 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 169-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hoang Thi Bich Ngoc

Vertical axis wind turbine technology has been applied last years, very long after horizontal axis wind turbine technology. Aerodynamic problems of vertical axis wind machines are discussible. An important problem is the determination of the incidence law in the interaction between wind and rotor blades. The focus of the work is to establish equations of the incidence depending on the blade azimuth, and to solve them. From these results, aerodynamic torques and power can be calculated. The incidence angle is a parameter of velocity triangle, and both the factors depend not only on the blade azimuth but also on the ratio of rotational speed and horizontal speed. The built computational program allows theoretically selecting the relationship of geometric parameters of wind turbine in accordance with requirements on power, wind speed and installation conditions.


2020 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Cheng Chi ◽  
Anubhav Datta ◽  
Inderjit Chopra ◽  
Renliang Chen

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