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Development of propellers and wind turbines made by intelligent materials

Research activity

Code Science Field Subfield
2.11.00  Engineering sciences and technologies  Mechanical design   

Code Science Field
T000  Technological sciences   
T210  Technological sciences  Mechanical engineering, hydraulics, vacuum technology, vibration and acoustic engineering 
T310  Technological sciences  Air transport technology 
T455  Technological sciences  Motors and propulsion systems 
Keywords
intelligent materials, propellers, wind turbines, aviation, composite materials
Evaluation (rules)
source: COBISS
Researchers (10)
no. Code Name and surname Research area Role Period No. of publicationsNo. of publications
1.  24560  PhD Miha Brojan  Mechanical design  Researcher  2004 - 2007  393 
2.  22240  PhD Radovan Dražumerič  Manufacturing technologies and systems  Researcher  2004 - 2007  78 
3.  01698  PhD Franc Kosel  Mechanical design  Head  2004 - 2007  816 
4.  15696  PhD Tadej Kosel  Engineering sciences and technologies  Researcher  2004 - 2007  441 
5.  12567  PhD Boris Kuselj  Chemical engineering  Researcher  2004  54 
6.  19339  MSc Mihael Mesarič  Mechanical design  Researcher  2004  42 
7.  26084  MSc Dejan Nožak  Mechanics  Researcher  2005 - 2007  15 
8.  19138  Branko Struna    Technical associate  2004 - 2007  49 
9.  13088  PhD Viktor Šajn  Mechanical design  Researcher  2004 - 2007  151 
10.  16148  PhD Tomaž Videnič  Mechanical design  Researcher  2004 - 2007  99 
Organisations (1)
no. Code Research organisation City Registration number No. of publicationsNo. of publications
1.  0782  University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering  Ljubljana  1627031  29,201 
Abstract
Research and development of smart materials and smarth structural systems has been actively pursued during the last decade. Smarh materials are defined as materials that can adapt to external stimuli, such as load or environment. The control capabilities of the material can be enhanced by material composition, processing, defect or microstructure, and conditioning to adapt to various levels of stimuli. When these special types of materials are integrated into the structure, both the sensing and the actuating mechanisms become integral parts of the structure through induced strain actuation. The technological applications of this class of materials span a wide range. Today a large variety of materials and techniques exist: piezoceramics, magnetostrictives, electrostrictives, electrorheological fluids, shape-memory alloys and fiber optics that serve as sensors and actuators in smarth structures. An intelligent or smart structure is generaly considerd an integrated system of structure, sensors, actuators, and a control module. Currently there is a great deal of interest in applying smart structure tehnology to various physical systems such as active vibration, noise, aeroelastic stability, damping, shape contol, structure health monitoring, process monitoring and demage and delamination detection. A significant amount of the early development was devoted to application to space-related systems. Recently, studies have also been conducted to investigate using this concept to improve fixed wing performance. During the laste decade, significant research efforts have also been directed toward applying these concepts to rotary wing aircraft. In our research the intelligent materials will be used for aircraft propellers and wind turbines. The improvement of such propellers and wind turbines will be better efficiency and low noise, that mean more environment friendly.
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