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Ponte, R., Sutherland, L.S. and Garbatov, Y. (2022), “Structural analysis of a 'Foiling Moth’ sailing dinghy hydrofoil”, Trends in Maritime Technology and Engineering, Guedes Soares, C. & Santos T.A. (Eds.), Taylor and Francis, London, UK, Vol. 1, pp. 185-193.
An ABAQUS finite element analysis (FEA) of the main strut of a foiling Moth high-performance sailing dinghy has been developed and validated experimentally with full-scale mechanical tests representative of the sailing condition. Agreement between experimental and numerical results was excellent, solely by using engineering-based choices for both the internal structural arrangement and the pertinent experimentally based library material properties, i.e., without the need for ‘calibration’ of the model parameters. This gives a high level of confidence in the validation of the FE model. The FE model is the first stage of the ongoing development of a full fluid-structure interaction (FSI) tool, which will be obtained by combining the FEA with a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model. This FSI will be a valuable and economic tool in facilitating evaluations of different foil appendage lay-up and fabrication methods designed to optimize the sailing performance.
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