Geometric Analysis of Small Wind Turbine Blades Manufactured by Additive Manufacturing

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Autor(a) principal: Porto,Heitor Andrade
Data de Publicação: 2022
Outros Autores: Fortulan,Carlos Alberto, Porto,Arthur José Vieira, Tsunaki,Roberto Hideaki
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Journal of Aerospace Technology and Management (Online)
Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2175-91462022000100308
Resumo: ABSTRACT One of the many benefits of additive manufacturing (AM) is to produce parts ready to assemble and use, a concept called direct digital manufacturing (DDM). This, besides the ease of manufacturing complexes geometries, creates a potential for applying the AM technology for producing small wind turbines (SWT) blades. Small wind turbines have an increasing role in the worldwide energy matrix, which can be built up by developing site-optimized and customized turbines. Customizing SWT can increase the energy harvesting potential of such machines; however, it requires flexible manufacturing procedures. The blade’s geometric complexity and flexible manufacturing are features that can benefit from the potentials of AM. This work analyses the final geometry of SWT blades manufactured by AM, assessing the scope of DDM in the SWT field. The parts length is 225 mm, the blades were manufactured by the Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) method using a Dimension Elite machine produced by Stratasys. The geometric evaluation was performed using a CROMA coordinate measuring machine. The measurements showed good results when compared to values adopted in several studies that investigated the effects of geometric disturbances on wind turbine blades. This work affirms that AM is a powerful technology for manufacturing SWT blades in a DDM scope.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Geometric Analysis of Small Wind Turbine Blades Manufactured by Additive Manufacturing
title Geometric Analysis of Small Wind Turbine Blades Manufactured by Additive Manufacturing
spellingShingle Geometric Analysis of Small Wind Turbine Blades Manufactured by Additive Manufacturing
Porto,Heitor Andrade
Small wind turbines
Additive manufacturing
Direct digital manufacturing
Geometric analysis
title_short Geometric Analysis of Small Wind Turbine Blades Manufactured by Additive Manufacturing
title_full Geometric Analysis of Small Wind Turbine Blades Manufactured by Additive Manufacturing
title_fullStr Geometric Analysis of Small Wind Turbine Blades Manufactured by Additive Manufacturing
title_full_unstemmed Geometric Analysis of Small Wind Turbine Blades Manufactured by Additive Manufacturing
title_sort Geometric Analysis of Small Wind Turbine Blades Manufactured by Additive Manufacturing
author Porto,Heitor Andrade
author_facet Porto,Heitor Andrade
Fortulan,Carlos Alberto
Porto,Arthur José Vieira
Tsunaki,Roberto Hideaki
author_role author
author2 Fortulan,Carlos Alberto
Porto,Arthur José Vieira
Tsunaki,Roberto Hideaki
author2_role author
author
author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Porto,Heitor Andrade
Fortulan,Carlos Alberto
Porto,Arthur José Vieira
Tsunaki,Roberto Hideaki
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Small wind turbines
Additive manufacturing
Direct digital manufacturing
Geometric analysis
topic Small wind turbines
Additive manufacturing
Direct digital manufacturing
Geometric analysis
description ABSTRACT One of the many benefits of additive manufacturing (AM) is to produce parts ready to assemble and use, a concept called direct digital manufacturing (DDM). This, besides the ease of manufacturing complexes geometries, creates a potential for applying the AM technology for producing small wind turbines (SWT) blades. Small wind turbines have an increasing role in the worldwide energy matrix, which can be built up by developing site-optimized and customized turbines. Customizing SWT can increase the energy harvesting potential of such machines; however, it requires flexible manufacturing procedures. The blade’s geometric complexity and flexible manufacturing are features that can benefit from the potentials of AM. This work analyses the final geometry of SWT blades manufactured by AM, assessing the scope of DDM in the SWT field. The parts length is 225 mm, the blades were manufactured by the Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) method using a Dimension Elite machine produced by Stratasys. The geometric evaluation was performed using a CROMA coordinate measuring machine. The measurements showed good results when compared to values adopted in several studies that investigated the effects of geometric disturbances on wind turbine blades. This work affirms that AM is a powerful technology for manufacturing SWT blades in a DDM scope.
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