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Advances in Wind Turbine Blade Design and Materials

  • 2nd Edition - January 14, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Povl Brondsted, Rogier P. L Nijssen, Stergios Goutianos
  • Language: English

Advances in Wind Turbine Blade Design and Materials, Second Edition, builds on the thorough review of the design and functionality of wind turbine rotor blades and the requir… Read more

Description

Advances in Wind Turbine Blade Design and Materials, Second Edition, builds on the thorough review of the design and functionality of wind turbine rotor blades and the requirements and challenges for composite materials used in both current and future designs of wind turbine blades.

Key features

  • Reviews the design and functionality of wind turbine rotor blades
  • Examines the requirements and challenges for composite materials used in both current and future designs of wind turbine blades
  • Provides an invaluable reference for researchers and innovators in the field of wind

Readership

Materials scientists and engineers; Wind turbine blade manufacturers and maintenance technicians; Wind industry professionals, composite materials professionals, resin and fiber/fabric professionals; Scientists, researchers and academics in the field of composite materials and structures

Table of contents

Part I: Wind turbine blade design: challenges and developments

1. Introduction to wind turbine blade design

2. Loads on wind turbine blades

3. Aerodynamic design of wind turbine rotors

4. Aerodynamic characteristics of wind turbine blade airfoils

5. Aeroelastic design of wind turbine blades

Part II: Fatigue behaviour of composite wind turbine blades

6. Fatigue as a design driver for composite wind turbine blades

7. Effects of resin and reinforcement variations on fatigue resistance of wind turbine blades

8. Fatigue life prediction of wind turbine blade composite materials

9. Micromechanical modelling of wind turbine blade materials

10. Probabilistic design of wind turbine blades

Part III: Advances in wind turbine blade materials, development and testing

11. Biobased composites: materials, properties and potential applications as wind turbine blade materials

12. Surface protection and coatings for wind turbine rotor blades

13. Design, manufacture and testing of small wind turbine blades

14. Wind turbine blade structural performance testing

Product details

  • Edition: 2
  • Latest edition
  • Published: January 14, 2023
  • Language: English

About the editors

PB

Povl Brondsted

Prof. Povl Brøndsted leads a research program on composites and material mechanics at the Materials Research Department in the National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy at the Technical University of Denmark.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Risø-DTU National Laboratory of Sustainable Energy, Denmark

RN

Rogier P. L Nijssen

Dr Rogier Nijssen is a research scientist at the Knowledge Centre Wind Turbine Materials and Constructions, The Netherlands. Their research has been both in research contracts and in public projects. Brøndsted and Nijssen have worked together in material research consortia such as the European Optimat and Upwind projects.
Affiliations and expertise
Research Scientist, Wind Turbine Materials and Constructions (WMC), The Netherlands

SG

Stergios Goutianos

Dr Stergios Goutianos is Senior Researcher, Department of Wind Energy, Composites and Materials Mechanics, DTU, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet Areas of interest, inter-fibre, fibrous networks, fracture resistance, mix load, fatigue testing in wind turbines
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Researcher, Department of Wind Energy, Composites and Materials Mechanics, DTU, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Demark

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