Newsunpower Aluminum Ground Mounting System Strength Calculation Report

1.Design Condition
1.1Design Application
Length 2279 2.279 m
Solar Panel Dimension
Width 1134 mm= 1.134 m
2
Area 2.58 m
Weight 28.5 Kg= 279.3 N
Panels Layout： 3 Lines 49 Rows
Installation Tilt Angle： 5 deg

2.2 The Strength calculation conditions

a.The Designing reference wind speed(3S gust)V= 47 m/s
wind speed(10min)V0=V/1.3= 36 m/s
b.Adopting the fixed load G,wind pressure load W and the combination of short-term composite load caused by the storm
without considering the snow pressure.
c.Basis of calculation： JIS C 8955 2017 Japan《Solar Panel mounting system designing standard》

2.Strength Calculation

2.1 Fixed load

Solar Panel Area A= 379.90 ㎡
Solar Panel Weight Gm= 41057.10 N

Rail Length 56760 mm

Rail Qty 6 KG for Rails GL 427.74 kg= 4191.88 N

Portrait Beam Length 6150mm =6.15m KG for per Rail= 9.51Kg

Portrait Beam Qty 16 Pcs，Total KG= 152.13Kg = 1490.8387 N

Fixed load G 45248.98 N

Fixed load G1 46739.824 N

2. 2 Wind load
Wind load W=Cw x qx Aw
=Cw x [0.6x V0^2 xE x I] x Aw
=Cw x [0.6x V0^2 x(Er^2 x Gf) x I] x Aw
=Cw x [0.6x V0^2 x(1.7x [H/Zg]^a x Gf) x I] x Aw
Formula：
When H <Zb Er=1.7x [Zb/Zg]^a Er= 0.691
When H >Zb Er=1.7x [H/Zg]^a Er= 0.501
Ground Type [positive pressure]
Cw[positive pressure]= 0.35+0.055θ-0.0005θ^2
= 0.613 （5~60deg)

Ground Type [negative pressure]

Cw[negative pressure]= 0.85+0.048θ-0.0005θ^2
= 1.078 （5~60deg)

Ground roughness classification III

H= 1 m
Zb= 5 m
Zg= 450 m
a= 0.2
V0= 36 m/s
I= 1
Degree= 5 deg
Aw= 379.90 ㎡
Cw[positive pressure]= 0.613
Cw[negative pressure]= 1.078
Gf= 2.5
To sum up:
positive pressure Wz 217962.568 N
negative pressure Wf 383436.192 N
2.3 Load combination
When only take short-term storm into account：
Rail
positive pressure L1wz= G1+Wz= 263211.553 N
negative pressure L1wf= G1+Wf= -338187.207 N

Portrait Beam
positive pressure L2wz= G2+Wz= 264702.392 N
negative pressure L2wf= G2+Wf= -336696.368 N
The absolute value of positive pressure is less than the negative pressure.

3.Rail Strength Check

Rail Basci Info
Material：Al6005-T5
Yield strength：[σ]= 215 Mpa
Elastic coefficient: E= 6.90E+10 N/㎡
Section factor Wx= 12509 mm^3 1.25E-05 m^3
Secondary Torque Ix 564122 mm^4 5.64E-07 m^4

Rail Length 56760 mm 56.760 m，total 6 pcs

Stress by each Rail L3= 43868.592 N
Rail by line load qL= 772.879 N/m

Stress model as shown below

630 3700

Simplified B,C and calculae by simply supporting beam

BC Length= 3.7 m
BC Bending Torque M= qL*BC^2/8= 1322.59 N*m
Stress σ=M/Wx= 1.06E+08 N/m^2= 105.73 Mpa
Safty Factor=[σ]/σ= 2.03 > 1 OK

AB=CD， AB Simplified as a cantilever beam structure

LAB= 630 mm= 63 cm
MAB=qL×AB^2/2= 15337.8 N*cm
σAB=MAB/WZ= 1226 N/cm^2 12.26 MP
Safty factor=[σ]/σAB= 17.53 > 1 OK
4. Portrait Beam Strength Check
Portrait Beam Basci Info
Material：Al6005-T5
Yield strength：[σ]= 215 Mpa
Elastic coefficient: E= 6.90E+10 N/㎡
Section factor Wx= 14979 mm^3 1.50E-05 m^3
Secondary Torque Ix 710097 mm^4 7.10E-07 m^4

Rail Length 6150mm mm 6.150 m，共 16 本

Stress by each Rail L3= 16543.900 N
Rail by line load qL= 2690.065 N/m

Stress model as shown below

Simplified B-C and calculae by simply supporting beam

BC Length= 1.315 m
BC Bending Torque M= qL*BC^2/8= 581.47 N*m
Stress σ=M/Wx= 3.88E+07 N/m^2= 38.82 Mpa
Safty Factor=[σ]/σ= 5.54 > 1 OK

A -B simplified to the cantilever beam structure

LAB= 200 mm= 20 cm
MAB=qL×AB^2/2= 5380.1 N*cm
σAB=MAB/WZ= 359 N/cm^2 3.59 MP
Safty factor=[σ]/σAB= 59.86 > 1 OK

5.Buckling of Supporting
Basci Info
Material：Al6005-T5
Yield strength：[σ]= 215 Mpa
Elastic coefficient: E= 6.90E+10 N/㎡ 6.90E+06 N/cm²
Section factor Wx= 14439 mm^3 1.44E-05 m^3
Secondary Torque Ix 613644 mm^4 6.14E+01 cm^4
The Rear leg is longer,and just allows less pressure on the system;Here we calculted based on the longer Rear leg.
n= 1
L 6= 323 cm
The Max pressure allowed for Rear Leg as: P k=n*∏^2*E*I M/L6^2= 40015 N= 40.01 KN

1.This 3*49 array is with 32 leg in total(Front Leg 16Pcs、Rear Leg 16Pcs）
W4=G2+Wz/32= 8271.949751 N= 8.27 KN
8.27KN<40.01KN OK