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I Am Trying To Model A Composite Wind Turbine Blade Based On A Open Model Found in Research Literature

The document discusses modeling a composite wind turbine blade based on an open model from research literature. It asks questions about defining orthotropic materials in Workbench using an ABD matrix, defining failure strains, and the proper way to define composite layups across the span of 11 blade components that have layup definitions in tables for over 100 sections with different material layers and thicknesses.

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I Am Trying To Model A Composite Wind Turbine Blade Based On A Open Model Found in Research Literature

The document discusses modeling a composite wind turbine blade based on an open model from research literature. It asks questions about defining orthotropic materials in Workbench using an ABD matrix, defining failure strains, and the proper way to define composite layups across the span of 11 blade components that have layup definitions in tables for over 100 sections with different material layers and thicknesses.

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I am trying to model a composite wind turbine blade based on a

open model found in research literature. In these documents the


blade is quite well defined with all the composite layup tables and
material definitions. I have few questoins regarding materials
definions in Workbench and the composite layup definitions in
ACP.
Firstly I am given the information of the orthotropic laminate
materials in the following format. Basically I can input the ABD-
matrix as this orthotropic material information. In this case I'm
only using the Young's Moduli, Shear Moduli, Poisson's ratios and
the densities. These can be seen in an example of the triaxial
multidirectional ply material definitoin in the picture after.
Question regarding this is, that is this the correct way to input these
values in order to basically use an ABD-matrix for an equivalent
material. And secondly in the following picture there are values of
the failure strains, how should these be defined in the materials?

And to the ACP question(s). In the following picture there is a


picture of the complete blade model and all the different
components of it. For these 11 components there are layup
definitoins given in table formats seen in the picture after that.
For example if we take the leading edge panels which have a radial
length as seen in the table, what is the proper way of defining the
layups across the span? In total there's 100 different sections with
different definitions of the 3 different materials in this case with
layer thicknessess going form 0 to 30 mm. Currently I have defined
the 100 sections as 100 different parallel selection rules, but now
I'm stuck that how should I define basically 100 different sections
of different layups for 11 different components? Is there a
reasonable way of reading the layer thicknesses from this type of a
file into ACP? In the following pictures the created
ParallelSelectoins can be seen, these were created by reading in a
CSV-file, but I'm yet to find how something like this could work
for the layups.
Final thing is, that if I'm going to connect some external
component into this composite model, is this actually better to do
in Mechanical than ACP and is there some reasonable way of
working with composites in Mechanical?
Thanks in advance!
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