Composite materials are increasingly used in wind blade because of their superior mechanical properties such as high strength-to-weight and stiffness-to-weight ratio. This paper presents vibration and damping analysis of fiberreinforced composite wind turbine blade with viscoelastic damping treatment. The finite element method based on full layerwise displacement theory was employed to analyze the damping, natural frequency, and modal loss factor of composite shell structure. The lamination angle was considered in mathematical modeling. The curved geometry, transverse shear, and normal strains were exactly considered in present layerwise shell model, which can depict the zig-zag in-plane and out-of-plane displacements. The frequency response functions of curved composite shell structure and wind blade were calculated. The results show that the damping ratio of viscoelastic layer is found to be very sensitive to determination of magnitude of composite structures. The frequency response functions with variety of thickness of damping layer were investigated. Moreover, the natural frequency, modal loss factor, and mode shapes of composite fiber reinforced wind blade with viscoelastic damping control were calculated.
The operational performance of proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFC) is highly influenced by temperature, making effective thermal management essential. However, the multivariate coupling between pumps and radiators presents significant control challenges. To address this issue, a dual DDPG-PID control strategy is proposed, integrating temperature and flow rate variations to enhance system stability and response. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed method significantly reduces temperature control errors and improves response time compared to conventional PID-based strategies. Specifically, the D-DDPG PID achieves a temperature error reduction of up to 75.4% and shortens the average tuning time by up to 25.6% compared to PSO-PID. Furthermore, the strategy optimizes cooling system performance, demonstrating its effectiveness in PEMFC thermal management.
In this paper, a method to improve the performance of PEMFCs using porous material as a flow channel baffle is proposed. The results show that PEMFCs with four porous baffles flow channels have better performance at high current density compared with the traditional flow channel. The structural parameters of the flow channel explored in this study include porosity, the thickness of the baffle and the number of baffles, and their influence on the performance of PEMFCs. Sensitivity analysis results show that the performance of the PEMFCs with the porous baffle channel is the most sensitive to baffle thickness, and the thickness and baffle could be appropriately adjusted. The number of plates and porosity of the baffle are adjusted to improve the performance of the PEMFCs.
24 October 2013 in Advances in Materials Science and Engineering
This paper has applied the constrained viscoelastic layer damping treatments to a cylindrical aluminum shell using layerwise displacement theory. The transverse shear, the normal strains, and the curved geometry are exactly taken into account in the present layerwise shell model, which can depict the zig-zag in-plane and out-of-plane displacements. The damped natural frequencies, modal loss factors, and frequency response functions of cylindrical viscoelastic aluminum shells are compared with those of the base thick aluminum panel without a viscoelastic layer. The thickness and damping ratio of the viscoelastic damping layer, the curvature of proposed cylindrical aluminum structure, and placement of damping layer of the aluminum panel were investigated using frequency response function. The presented results show that the sandwiched viscoelastic damping layer can effectively suppress vibration of cylindrical aluminum structure.
When cleaning the surface of a glass greenhouse, the washing machine often encounters slippery tracks or strong winds, in which case the washing machine is very likely to deviate from the axis of the greenhouse. In order to improve the stability and reliability of the glass greenhouse cleaner under different working conditions, this paper studies the controller of the glass greenhouse cleaner and puts forward a fuzzy PID control scheme optimized by the PSO algorithm. Using Adams and Matlab to jointly simulate the machine model, the results show that the particle swarm fuzzy PID controller has the best control effect and can make the cleaner adaptable to a variety of working conditions. The system overshoot was reduced by up to 35.5%, the response time by up to 3 s, and the difference between left and right wheel speeds by up to 0.086 deg/s.