Stress analysis of cylindrical grid-stiffened composite shells was conducted under transverse loading,pure bending,torsion and axial compression under clamped-free boundary condition.Electrical strain gauges were empl...Stress analysis of cylindrical grid-stiffened composite shells was conducted under transverse loading,pure bending,torsion and axial compression under clamped-free boundary condition.Electrical strain gauges were employed to measure the strains in transverse loading case to validate the finite element analysis which was conducted using ANSYS software.Good agreement was obtained between the two methods.It was observed that stiffening the composite shell with helical ribs decreased the average equivalent Von Mises stress on the shell.The reduction of the stress seemed to be higher in the intersection of two ribs.It was also seen that the stress reduction ratio was higher when the structure was under bending compared to torsion and axial compression.The reduction ratio was approximately 75% in pure bending in the intersection point of the ribs,while it was approximately 25% in torsion.Therefore,it is concluded that the presence of the ribs is more effective under bending.Failure analysis was done using Tsai-Wu criterion.The ribs were observed to result in maximum and minimum increase in the failure load of the structure under transverse bending and torsional loading,respectively.展开更多
As a part of boundaries for a free curved surface of a Pelton bucket,the cutout is indispensable to secure the smooth entrance of the unsteady inflow of water jet into the rotating bucket.The cutout of the rotating bu...As a part of boundaries for a free curved surface of a Pelton bucket,the cutout is indispensable to secure the smooth entrance of the unsteady inflow of water jet into the rotating bucket.The cutout of the rotating bucket unsteadily separates a free jet into two branches in both space and time:the impinging branch landing on the relevant bucket surface,and the flow-off branch separated by the cutout toward the preceding bucket.In order to investigate the unsteady jet separation by the cutout three-dimensionally,a semicircular free jet was discretized into 641 nodes of boundary-fitted grids.The position P of impinging jet branch landing on the bucket surface was acquired with the relative velocity W and the water depth D at each node.The trailing edge surface of the flow-off jet branch was simultaneously computed unsteadily.The complicate unsteady interaction of the bucket cutout with the branched free jets was clarified visually with the 3D view of illustrations in order to research the unsteady hydraulic performance of Pelton turbines in space and time.展开更多
文摘Stress analysis of cylindrical grid-stiffened composite shells was conducted under transverse loading,pure bending,torsion and axial compression under clamped-free boundary condition.Electrical strain gauges were employed to measure the strains in transverse loading case to validate the finite element analysis which was conducted using ANSYS software.Good agreement was obtained between the two methods.It was observed that stiffening the composite shell with helical ribs decreased the average equivalent Von Mises stress on the shell.The reduction of the stress seemed to be higher in the intersection of two ribs.It was also seen that the stress reduction ratio was higher when the structure was under bending compared to torsion and axial compression.The reduction ratio was approximately 75% in pure bending in the intersection point of the ribs,while it was approximately 25% in torsion.Therefore,it is concluded that the presence of the ribs is more effective under bending.Failure analysis was done using Tsai-Wu criterion.The ribs were observed to result in maximum and minimum increase in the failure load of the structure under transverse bending and torsional loading,respectively.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.50379015)the Major Science and Technology Projects in Zhejiang province(Grant No.2008C11057)
文摘As a part of boundaries for a free curved surface of a Pelton bucket,the cutout is indispensable to secure the smooth entrance of the unsteady inflow of water jet into the rotating bucket.The cutout of the rotating bucket unsteadily separates a free jet into two branches in both space and time:the impinging branch landing on the relevant bucket surface,and the flow-off branch separated by the cutout toward the preceding bucket.In order to investigate the unsteady jet separation by the cutout three-dimensionally,a semicircular free jet was discretized into 641 nodes of boundary-fitted grids.The position P of impinging jet branch landing on the bucket surface was acquired with the relative velocity W and the water depth D at each node.The trailing edge surface of the flow-off jet branch was simultaneously computed unsteadily.The complicate unsteady interaction of the bucket cutout with the branched free jets was clarified visually with the 3D view of illustrations in order to research the unsteady hydraulic performance of Pelton turbines in space and time.
