Flutter performance of bend-twist coupled large-scale wind turbine blades

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• 作者：Khazar Hayat^a ; Alvaro Gorostidi Martinez de Lecea^b ; Carlos Donazar Moriones^b ; Sung Kyu Ha^c ; ^{sungkha@gmail.com" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}
• 关键词：Bend-twist coupling ; Large-scale blade ; Flutter ; Aero-elasticity
• 刊名：Journal of Sound and Vibration
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：26 May 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：370
• 期：Complete
• 页码：149-162
• 全文大小：2918 K

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The bend–twist coupling (BTC) is proven to be effective in mitigating the fatigue loads for large-scale wind turbine blades, but at the same time it may cause the risk of flutter instability. The BTC is defined as a feature of twisting of the blade induced by the primary bending deformation. In the classical flutter, the BTC arises from the aerodynamic loads changing with the angle of attack. In this study, the effects of the structural BTC on the flutter are investigated by considering the layup unbalances (ply angle, material and thickness of the composite laminates) in the NREL 5-MW wind turbine rotor blade of glass fiber/epoxy [0₂/+45/−45]_S laminates. It is numerically shown that the flutter speed may decrease by about 5 percent with unbalanced ply-angle only (one side angle, from 45° to 25°). It was then demonstrated that the flutter performance of the wind turbine blade can be increased by using lighter and stiffer carbon fibers which ensures the higher structural BTC at the same time.