Description
Presentation to the 5th Wind and Drivetrain Conference - Dassault Systems Events.Abstract: Large wind turbine blades rely on composite materials with excellent and predictable material performance. In this presentation, different cases for modeling composites aimed at the wind turbine blade application are demonstrated. The demonstration will be given using the commercial finite element code Abaqus. The demonstration will cover the ability to model the actual fiber, bundle, and fabric architecture as well as the matrix material performance of specific composite samples. It will be demonstrated how a precise numerical representation of a full cross-section of a material test sample containing 100.000’s of fibers is translated from full 3D x-ray CT scans to high fidelity finite element models (https://doi.org/10.24433/CO.9768579.v1). Some of this work includes a Fortran-based implementation of user-defined user-element and user-materials as well as material orientation mapping.
| Period | 6 Apr 2022 → 7 Apr 2022 |
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| Event title | 5th Wind and Drivetrain Conference |
| Event type | Conference |
| Conference number | 5 |