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Introduction to quiz: Wind turbine blade - Quiz 07 ................................................................... 1

Stresses in the blade cross section .......................................................................................... 1
Question 1.1 ....................................................................................................................... 1
Question 1.2 ....................................................................................................................... 1
Question 1.3 ....................................................................................................................... 1
Question 1.4 ....................................................................................................................... 1
The weight of a wind turbine blade ........................................................................................ 1
Question 2.1 - 2.2 - 2.3 ........................................................................................................ 2
Question 2.4 ....................................................................................................................... 4

Introduction to quiz: Wind turbine blade - Quiz

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Stresses in the blade cross section

Question 1.1
Equation 2

Question 1.2
Equation 2

Question 1.3
Equation 3

Question 1.4
Equation 1

The weight of a wind turbine blade

% The properties of the three materials to be investigated are given
in Table 1. The composite material data is for unidirectional (UD)
composites with a fibre volume fraction of 55?60% . The carbon fibre
composite data is for a low cost carbon fibre. The provided data for
fatigue limits corresponds to approximately 108?109 load cycles.

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 Mat_DB = [2700 70 300 150;
1900 44 1000 180;
1600 120 2000 300];

L = 86; % m
Vr = 11; % m/s
rho_air = 1.225; % kg/m3
g = 10; % m/s2

hf_0 = 2; % m
he_0 = 4; % m

Question 2.1 - 2.2 - 2.3

Material 1 - Aluminium 2 - UD glass fibre composite 3 - UD carbon fibre composite

Mb_ton = [0 0 0];
for Mat = 1:3;
disp(['Material -> ' num2str(Mat)])

rho_mat = Mat_DB(Mat,1); % kg/m3

E = Mat_DB(Mat,2)*1e9; % Pa
SigTS = Mat_DB(Mat,3)*1e6; % Pa
SF = Mat_DB(Mat,4)*1e6; % Pa

sigF_0 = SF;

sigE_0 = SF;

% Af_x = @(x) 4/81* rho_air* Vr^2* (2*L +x) * (L - x)^2/sigF_x/

hf_x
%
% Ae_0 = @(x) rho_mat*g*L^2*Af_x(x)/(sigE_x*he_x - rho_mat*g*L^2)
% 2.1605e+04

Af_0 = 4/81* pi* rho_air* Vr^2* (2*L) * (L)^2/sigF_0/hf_0

Ae_0 = rho_mat*g*L^2*Af_0/(sigE_0*he_0 - rho_mat*g*L^2)

Mb = 2*(Af_0 + Ae_0)*L*rho_mat;

Mb_ton(Mat) = Mb*1e-3;

Mblade_tons = Mb_ton(Mat)

end

Mb_ton

bar(Mb_ton)
ylabel('Blade wigth [tons]')
xlabel('1 - Aluminium | 2 - UD glass fibre composite | 3 - UD carbon
fibre composite')

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grid

Material -> 1

Af_0 =

0.0975

Ae_0 =

0.0486

Mblade_tons =

67.8734

Material -> 2

Af_0 =

0.0813

Ae_0 =

0.0197

Mblade_tons =

32.9950

Material -> 3

Af_0 =

0.0488

Ae_0 =

0.0053

Mblade_tons =

14.8853

Mb_ton =

67.8734 32.9950 14.8853

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Question 2.4
cost_factor = Mb_ton(3)/Mb_ton(2)*7.4

figure
bar([1 cost_factor])
ylabel('Blade Cost [Cost of UD glass fibre composite blade]')
xlabel('1 - UD glass fibre composite | 2 - UD carbon fibre composite')
grid

cost_factor =

3.3384

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