Advances in Wind Turbine Blade Design and Materials

2nd Edition - January 14, 2023

Editors: Povl Brondsted, Rogier P. L Nijssen, Stergios Goutianos

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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.

Cover image
Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
Contributors
Part 1. Wind turbine blade design: challenges and developments
1. Introduction to wind turbine blade design
1.1. Introduction
1.2. Design principles and failure mechanisms
1.3. Challenges and future trends in wind turbine blade design
1.4. Retrofit solutions
2. Loads on wind turbine blades
2.1. Introduction
2.2. Types of load
2.3. Generation of loads
2.4. Fatigue and extreme loads
2.5. Design verification testing
2.6. Challenges and future trends
3. Aerodynamic design of wind turbine rotors
3.1. Introduction
3.2. The blade element momentum method
3.3. Important parameters in aerodynamic rotor design
3.4. Particular design parameters
3.5. An example of the rotor design process
3.6. Future trends
3.7. Sources of further information and advice
Appendix: nomenclature
4. Aerodynamic characteristics of wind turbine blade airfoils
4.1. Introduction
4.2. Computational methods
4.3. Desired characteristics1
4.4. The impact of leading edge contamination, erosion and Reynolds number
4.5. Noise
4.6. Airfoil testing
4.7. Airfoil characteristics at high angles of attack
4.8. Correction for centrifugal and Coriolis forces
4.9. Establishing data for blade design
4.10. Future trends
Appendix: Nomenclature
5. Aeroelastic design of wind turbine blades
5.1. Introduction
5.2. Wind turbine blade aeroelasticity
5.3. Blade design
5.4. Complete turbine design
5.5. Challenges and future trends
5.6. Sources of further information and advice
6. Micromechanical modeling of wind blade materials
6.1. Introduction
6.2. Analytical methods of micromechanical modeling of fiber-reinforced composites: an overview
6.3. Unit cell modeling of fiber-reinforcedcomposites
6.4. 3D modeling of composite degradation under tensile loading
6.5. Carbon fiber-reinforced composites: statistical and compressive loading effects
6.6. Hierarchical composites with nanoengineered matrix
6.7. Conclusions, challenges, and future trends
6.8. Sources of further information
Part 2. Fatigue behavior of composite wind turbine blades
7. Fatigue as a design driver for composite wind turbine blades
7.1. Introduction
7.2. Materials in blades
7.3. Blade structure and components
7.4. Fundamentals of wind turbine blade fatigue
7.5. Rotor blade tests at Delft University of Technology in 1984 (van Delft et al., 1988)
7.6. Research into wind turbine blade fatigue and its modeling
7.7. Future trends
7.8. Conclusion
7.9. Sources of further information and advice
8. Effects of resin and reinforcement variations on Fatigue resistance of wind turbine blades
8.1. Introduction
8.2. Effects of loading conditions for glass and carbon laminates
8.3. Tensile fatigue trends with laminate construction and fiber content for glass fiber laminates
8.4. Effects of resin and fabric structure on tensile fatigue resistance
8.5. Delamination and material transitions
8.6. Comparison of fatigue trends for blade materials
8.7. Conclusion
8.8. Future trends
8.9. Sources of further information and advice
9. Fatigue behavior and life prediction of wind turbine blade composite materials
9.1. Introduction
9.2. Fatigue behavior of laminates under complex loading profiles
9.3. Fatigue life modeling and prediction
9.4. Case study: phenomenological fatigue life prediction
9.5. Summary and future trends
10. Probabilistic design of wind turbine blades
10.1. Introduction
10.2. Structural analysis models
10.3. Failure definition
10.4. Random variables
10.5. Probabilistic methods and models
10.6. Application examples and discussion of techniques
10.7. Challenges and future trends
10.8. Sources of further information and advice
Part 3. Advances in wind turbine blade materials, development, and testing
11. Biobased composites: materials, properties, and potential applications as wind turbine blade materials
11.1. Introduction
11.2. Biobased fibers and matrix materials
11.3. Biobased composites
11.4. Case study: comparison between cellulose and glass fiber composites
11.5. Special considerations in the development and application of biobased composites
12. Surface protection and coatings for wind turbine rotor blades
12.1. Introduction
12.2. Fundamentals of surface protection for wind turbine blades
12.3. Protection from blade icing, lightning and air traffic
12.4. Performance testing of protection layers: an introduction
12.5. Accelerated testing of the surface coatings of wind turbine blades in practice
12.6. Conclusions, challenges, and future trends
13. Design, manufacture, and testing of small wind turbine blades
13.1. Introduction
13.2. Requirements for small wind turbine blades
13.3. Materials and manufacture
13.4. Blade testing
13.5. Installation and operation
13.6. Challenges and future trends
14. Wind turbine blade structural performance testing
14.1. Introduction
14.2. Test program
14.3. Types of tests
14.4. Test loads
14.5. Test details
15. Maintenance and repair of wind turbine blades
15.1. Introduction
15.2. Structural health monitoring: main approaches
15.3. COST evaluation of repair technologies
15.4. Repair technologies of wind turbine blades
15.5. Computational modeling of patch repair of wind turbine blades
15.6. Conclusions, challenges, and future trends
15.7. Sources of further information
Index