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Materials for Wind Turbine Blades: An Overview [PDF]
Materials, 2017 A short overview of composite materials for wind turbine applications is presented here. Requirements toward the wind turbine materials, loads, as well as available materials are reviewed. Apart from the traditional composites for wind turbine blades (glass fibers/epoxy matrix composites), natural composites, hybrid and nanoengineered composites are ...
Leon Mishnaevsky +5 more
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Shanghai Jiaotong Daxue xuebao, 2022 Based on the integrated jacket-support offshore wind turbine model of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) method is coupled with the wind turbine integrated analysis method to study the blade icing ...
CHUANG Zhenju, LI Chunzheng, LIU Shewen
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Determining Division Location for Sectional Wind Turbine Blades
Energies, 2017 Sectional wind turbine blades, by dividing an intact blade into multiple segments, have the advantage of being easy to handle and transport. To determine a suitable blade division location, this study was performed to clarify some crucial aspects and ...
Zhiwen Qin +5 more
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Energies, 2023 In this paper, based on the lift-type wind turbine, an adaptive double-drive lift–drag composite vertical-axis wind turbine is designed to improve the wind energy utilization rate. A drag blade was employed to rapidly accelerate the wind turbine, and the
Pengfei Yan +4 more
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EVOLUTIONARY DESIGN OF WIND TURBINE BLADES
International Journal of Computing, 2014 An automatic design environment is implemented for the aerodynamic design of wind turbine blades. This tool involves the integration of evolutionary techniques and a simple, fast, and robust aerodynamic simulator which was developed for the prediction of the performance of any turbine blade produced by the evolutionary process.
Vicente Díaz Casás +2 more
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Stability Analysis of Wind Turbine Blades Based on Different Structural Models
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2023 In order to better simulate the actual working conditions of wind turbines more realistically, this paper adopts the two-way fluid–structure coupling method to study the NREL 5 MW wind turbine, considering the blade coupling deformation and equivalent ...
Bin Wang +8 more
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Force Measurements on a VAWT Blade in Parked Conditions
Energies, 2017 The forces on a turbine at extreme wind conditions when the turbine is parked is one of the most important design cases for the survivability of a turbine.
Anders Goude, Morgan Rossander
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Autonomous Wind-Turbine Blade Inspection Using LiDAR-Equipped Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
IEEE Access, 2020 This paper presents a LiDAR-equipped unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) performing semi-autonomous wind-turbine blade inspection which includes traversing to the blade tip and back, while keeping constant relative distance and heading to the blade plane ...
Marko Car +4 more
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Structural Analysis of Basalt Fiber Reinforced Plastic Wind Turbine Blade
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2014 In this study, Basalt fiber reinforced plastic (BFRP) wind turbine blade was analyzed and compared with Glass fiber reinforced plastic blade (GFRP). Finite element analysis (FEA) of blade was carried out using ANSYS.
Mengal Ali Nawaz +2 more
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Acoustic Emissions from Wind Turbine Blades [PDF]
Journal of Aerospace Technology and Management, 2019 Research on broadband aerodynamic noise from wind turbine blades is becoming important in several countries. In this work, computer simulation of acoustic emissions from wind turbine blades are predicted using quasi empirical model for a three-bladed ...
Vasishta Bhargava, Rahul Samala
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