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LMS to exhibit at renewable energy event

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Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Mar 12, 2009

LMS has announced that it will be participating in EWEC 2009, Europe's premier wind energy event.

At EWEC 2009, which attracts renewable energy experts from around the world, LMS will present several of its dedicated wind energy solutions for wind turbine manufacturers, including the Motion Aerodyn Wind Loads feature in its latest release of LMS Virtual.Lab Rev 8B.

Wind turbine developers face some very particular challenges such as aeroelastic wind load modelling, automating numerous and varying load runs and comprehensive pre- and post-processing.

To solve this previously, users had to rely on specialised third-party software outside the LMS Virtual.Lab environment and the related time-consuming data translations and importation.

With the Motion Aerodyn Wind Loads feature in LMS Virtual.Lab Rev 8B, users will be able to reliably predict transient dynamic loads and use them as input for subsequent fatigue life and radiated noise emission calculations - all from within the LMS Virtual.Lab environment.

LMS Virtual.Lab Motion can be used to create the blade and its structural flexibility and the wind behavioural traits, incorporating the modelling of any other critical elements in appropriate detail, such as gearboxes, bearings and controls.

The wind loads themselves are computed using the Aerodyn subroutine for LMS Virtual.Lab Motion.

Numerous pre-processing options are available to help create correctly formatted wind input data and include wind behaviour traits ranging from turbulent to constant and even IEC wind standards to validate the wind turbine design.

Based on this wind information, blade orientation and speed during each time step, the LMS Virtual.Lab Aerodyn subroutine takes over, calculating the apparent wind speed on the blades and the precise subsequent wind load for each blade section enabling accurate dynamic simulation studies in LMS Virtual.Lab Motion.

LMS International will be present at the European Wind Energy Conference and Exhibition (EWEC) in Marseille, France, from 16-19 March 2009 on stand 1736 in hall 1.

LMS will also be holding a press conference in the EWEC Press Centre on Tuesday, 17 March at 15:00.

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