The Structural Optimization of One-Armed Planet Carrier of Wind Turbine Gearbox Based on Lightweight Structure

DOI

10.2991/mme-16.2017.108How to use a DOI?

Keywords

One-armed planet carrier, Finite element analysis, Lightweight, Structure optimization.

Abstract

One-armed planet carrier's static stress analysis and modal analysis were accomplished by the finite element method. The deformation, stress magnitude and distribution and natural frequency of the planet carrier were obtained. Under the condition of satisfying the ultimate strength and fatigue life, the planet carrier is optimized to get a lightweight structure. The optimized results showed the optimized planet carrier increases the amount of maximum deformation of 0.512um, maximum stress increased by 143.271MPa and natural frequency increased by 0.4879Hz. In the first mode of the modal analysis, the total distortion is reduced by 82.5%, mass and volume is reduced by 37.56%. But the optimization improved the performance and transmission efficiency of the planet carrier and realized the purpose of lightweight.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Bo Huang
AU  - Yu-Tao Yan
PY  - 2016/12
DA  - 2016/12
TI  - The Structural Optimization of One-Armed Planet Carrier of Wind Turbine Gearbox Based on Lightweight Structure
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd Annual International Conference on Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering (MME 2016)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 777
EP  - 784
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/mme-16.2017.108
DO  - 10.2991/mme-16.2017.108
ID  - Huang2016/12
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