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So in other words, you have let's say five twisted bars, three RH twists and two LH twists laid side by side RLRLR. Weld those together and forge the knife from the resulting bar. Have you watched Jerry Fisk's Youtube videos of this technique?
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Looks rather like Bill's pattern is the same basic pattern only with more bars across the same width and stretched out more than mine. Otherwise basically the same. My individual bars were twisted tighter.
For those of you who haven't figured this out, clicking the photos Karl provided will take you to his photobucket site where he has posted a lot of photos of the Turkish twist process (and other stuff). Great pictures Karl and the drawings of the TT process are good info.
The elastic torsion (or twisting) of a blade is certainly important for some wind turbine blades (but not all). However, the current version of FAST does not have blade-torsion degrees of freedom (DOFs).
The dynamics of a composite spinning blade with bending, torsion, and large deflection is quite compilicated, which is why it has taken a while for NREL to add blade torsion to FAST. However, NREL is working on introducing blade torsion to FAST as described in my Nov 26, 2012 post in the forum topic found here: Coupled blade modes in FAST.
Blading can be designed with different radial equilibrium solutions, leading to different radial profiles of work extraction, and different radial profiles of C. In the case of the free vortex design, shown in the figure above, RC is constant, leading to the distribution shown, with lower C at the larger radius. Other radial equilibrium solutions are possible, such as linear forced vortex, or parabolic forced vortex. These distributions change the radial work distribution, as well as the twist distribution, but, typically, still lead to blading which is considered twisted. The radial work distribution can impact blade twist, but the change in radius from hub to tip is the main driver.
As I understand it helicopter rotor blades keep a constant aerofoil section along their length, and are not twisted. Other rotating aerodynamic devices such as propellors, turbofan fans and wind turbines thicken and get a steeper angle towards the hub due to the lower incident airspeed (in the direction of rotation).
Helicopter blades do have twist. The relative air speed increases from blade root to blade tip, and therefore on an untwisted blade lift would increase quadratically from root to tip. Or going the other way, lift would reduce quadratically from tip to root. Blade twist fixes this: it recuperates the lift generated on the inboard section of the rotor.
By twisting the blades to reduce the lift at the tip, the flow pattern can be made more uniform and the hover figure of merit can be improved by up to about 5%. Since this may represent a 20% increase in payload and since twisted blades are about as easy to manufacture as untwisted blades, there is a good reason to use twist - and all modern helicopters do.
Due to the aerodynamic lift equation, ideal blade twist would be non-linear: again, would vary quadratically with blade span. But this ideal twist is only ideal in the hover situation, and definitely not ideal in the factory when the blade needs to be produced.
RC helicopters almost all have zero-camber (symmetrical), zero-twist rotor blades. These are almost comically inefficient (the center half of the disk produces almost no lift), leading to typical flight times of five minutes or so. They have the benefit of working just as well upside-down as rightside-up. "3D" maneuverability is critically important for this consumer base. If you watch videos of these things doing stunts, you'll often see the helicopter bouncing back and forth between positive and negative lift in a symmetrical fashion. This isn't possible with a twisted, cambered airfoil.
So all that being said, I'm curious why I'm not seeing more people in the community talk about or use the same twist-and-lock blade connection design that the Savi's sabers use. My first saber was a Savi's saber that I made at Galaxy's Edge back in February (I'm a now former WDW CM). I also got a far less expensive newer Disney store model Kylo ren saber for my partner which also has a twist-and-lock blade design. Over the summer I picked up 3 LGT/TXQ sabers on AliExpress which I customized pretty heavily and while I absolutely love them, having to screw or unscrew my blade everytime I want to connect or remove it is...annoying. Not a deal breaker obviously, but it's certainly not the quickest or easiest transition and constantly needing a hex key on me for it just doesn't seem efficient. Before the parks closed, I liked to wander around GE with my Savi's saber on my hip and my blade on my back so if I wanted to take pictures with it I could simply pull it out, plug it in, and the whole process is done. While it's not impossible to screw in a retention screw blade quickly, it's definitely nowhere near as fast or convenient.
Is there a reason for this? It seems like it would be fairly easy to create an adapter for a neopixel blade with this in mind and just as easy to make simple modifications to a blade hilt to allow for it; especially considering how clever people are with 3D printed part designs. What do you guys think? Am I missing something here? Is there a factor that makes this less practical than a screw-in blade or are we simply waiting for someone to design something that becomes the new standard? (also is there a proper term for this kind of locking mechanism because twist-and-lock was the first thing to come to my head, but it's also really fun to say)
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Abstract:This paper presents a novel integrated study of the aerodynamic performance and acoustic signature of multirotor propellers with a specific focus on the blade twist angle effect. Experimental measurements and computational fluid dynamic (CFD) simulations were utilized to examine and compare the aerodynamic performance and noise reduction between twisted and untwisted blades. A 2D phase-locked particle image velocimetry (PIV) was employed to visualize flow structures at specific blade locations in terms of tip vortices and trailing edge vortices. Good consistency between the simulations and measurements was observed in aerodynamic and acoustic performance. It is verified that the propellers with twisted blades enable a maximum increase of 9.3% in the figure of merit compared to untwisted blades while achieving the same thrust production and are further capable to reduce overall sound pressure level by a maximum of 4.3 dB. CFD results reveal that the twisted propeller remarkedly reduces far-field loading noise by suppressing trailing-edge vortices, hence mitigating kinetic energy fluctuation at the blade tip, while having minimal impact on thickness noise. This study points to the crucial role of blade twists in altering the aeroacoustic characteristics, indicating that optimal designs could lead to significant improvements in both aerodynamic and acoustic performance.Keywords: drone; aerodynamic noise; multirotor; PIV; CFD
In 2012, two wind turbine blade innovations made wind power a higher performing, more cost-effective, and reliable source of electricity: a blade that can twist while it bends and blade airfoils (the cross-sectional shape of wind turbine blades) with a flat or shortened edge.
Wind industry researchers understood that larger rotors with longer blades can capture more energy per turbine, in turn reducing the cost per kilowatt-hour. However, without changes in blade design, the weight and cost and of the longer blade would multiply, thus outweighing the benefits. Additionally, even a small expansion in blade diameter increased wear and tear caused by wind gusts and turbulence.
Competing engineering considerations represented another challenge to the goal of more power at lower cost. Aerodynamic engineers wanted thin shapes from the blade root to the tip to generate as much power as possible. Thinner blades have lower drag and are therefore inherently more efficient for producing power. Structural engineers wanted thicker blade shapes which are structurally more efficient. And manufacturing engineers struggled to control quality when layering fiberglass to support complex shapes with intricate structural requirements. 006ab0faaa
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