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b3p

Command line tools to create models for composite (wind turbine) blades.

Functionality

Building 3D models of wind turbine blades
Creating a quad mesh for the blade
Assigning scalable slab based laminate plans to the structure
Assembling a shell mesh with laminate properties
Writing mesh information to VTK files

Install

From pypi

pip install b3p

From source

git clone https://github.com/wr1/b3p.git
cd b3p 
pip install -e .

How to run

usage: b3p [-h] {build,ccx,2d,ccblade,clean} ...

Blade Design CLI

positional arguments:
  {build,ccx,2d,ccblade,clean}
    build               Build the full blade model
    ccx                 Run Calculix operations
    2d                  2D mesh and ANBA4 operations
    ccblade             Run CCBlade analysis
    clean               Clean working directory

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit

In a cloned repository:

cd examples
# build the blade model, geometry, mesh, drape
b3p build blade_test.yml
# run the ccx fea analysis
b3p ccx blade_test.yml

Output

Plot of geometric input parameters for the example blade test_blade

Visualisation of the number of plies on the mesh using Paraview 3dblade_nplies

Visualisation of a 2d cross section mesh mesh2d

CalculiX results (very coarse mesh) zstrain

Metadata

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