Command line tools to create models for composite (wind turbine) blades.
- Interpolating a blade through a series of airfoils
- Aligning airfoils to create maximum building height over a straight shearweb
- Creating a quad mesh for the blade
- Assigning scalable slab based laminate plans to the structure
- Assembling a shell mesh with laminate properties
- Writing mesh information to VTK files
pip install -e .
cd examples
make
which outputs the following targets
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geom create blade shell geometry (no shearwebs)
mesh create blade structure
plybook create a plybook out of slab definition
drape drape the shell and the shear web
combine add the meshes together
mesh2d extract 2D meshes
loads assign nodal forces to the joined mesh for use in FEA
ccx export a grid to ccx format, solve and postprocess (requires ccx to be installed and be in PATH)
all run all targets in sequence
To run all steps type:
make all
Plot of geometric input parameters for the example blade
Visualisation of the number of plies on the mesh using Paraview
Visualisation of a 2d cross section mesh
CalculiX results (very coarse mesh)
TODO