Parameterized Modeling and Analysis of Wind Turbine Blade Using VB and ANSYS

Abstract:

It is very difficult to establish a model of wind turbine blade in finite element software directly because of complexity of the shape. To solve this problem, parameterized modeling and analysis program of wind turbine blade is developed applying of ANSYS secondary development technique based on VB6.0. Processes of establishing a finite element model, applying loads and extracting Post-processing data of wind turbine blade are described. A numeral example demonstrates the program is feasible and correct. The research work can help to speed up application of ANSYS secondary technique in design and analysis of wind turbine blade and provide references for parameterized modeling and analysis of similar engineering in the future.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 774-776)
• Pages: 248-251
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.774-776.248
• Online since: September 2013
• Authors: Jian Hua Zhang, Dian Wei Gao, Ke Sun, Xin Sheng Liu
• Keywords: ANSYS, Finite Element Analysis (FEA), Parameterized Modeling, Secondary Development, Visual Basic (VB), Wind Turbine Blade

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