Reducing the Structural Mass of Large Direct Drive Wind Turbine Generators through Triply Periodic Minimal Surfaces Enabled by Hybrid Additive Manufacturing

Reducing the Structural Mass of Large Direct Drive Wind Turbine Generators through Triply Periodic Minimal Surfaces Enabled by Hybrid Additive Manufacturing

As the power output of direct drive generators increases, they become prohibitively large with much of this material structural support. In this work, implicit modeling was coupled to finite element analysis through a genetic algorithm variant to automate lattice optimization for the rotor of a 5 MW...

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Main Authors: Austin C. Hayes, Gregory L. Whiting
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-03-01
Series:Clean Technologies
Subjects:
permanent magnet direct drive generator
additive manufacturing
structural optimization
implicit modeling
TPMS lattices
generative design
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2571-8797/3/1/13

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