Otimização de torre de aço para aerogerador eólico.

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Núria Alice Alves Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/11581
• topic: Civil Engineering; Tubular tower; Optimal design; Structural optimization; Engenharia Civil; Torre tubular; Projeto ótimo; Otimização estrutural; CNPQ::ENGENHARIAS::ENGENHARIA CIVIL

Different forms energy generation have been developed with the main goal of offering correct ecological alternatives. In this context, wind energy is highly prominent in the northeast Brazil, due to the potential wind in the region. The towers, which represent a significant portion of the total cost of the system tends to find strong winds and permit them to utilize wind turbines as a medium for the generating energy. This work shows an objective way to formulate an model of towers with steel turbines, for wind generation. The work seeks to minimize the total volume (cost, indirectly) with the wall thickness of the tower as design variables. Natural frequencies and structural behavior (allowable stresses and maximum displacement according to the European code) are the design constraints. The tower structure is modeled using the Finite Element Method and the applied loads are the total weight of the structure (including the tower and the wind turbine installed on the top) and the static effect of the wind on the tower. To determine the stresses, displacements and natural frequencies shell elements available in the ANSYS analysis program were used. Optimization models were also implemented using the ANSYS design optimization modulus which uses mathematical programming techniques to find the optimum structure. The first order and sub problem methods were used in the developed applications. The obtained results show that the towers for wind generators deserve special attention related to the conception of the structural project. Its performance has to be verified by a complete methodology that embodies the classical analysis (static and dynamics) and also the optimization analysis.