Advances in Wind Turbine Blade Design and Materials
- 2nd Edition - January 14, 2023
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Editors: Povl Brondsted, Rogier P. L Nijssen, Stergios Goutianos
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 1 0 3 0 0 7 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 1 0 3 0 0 8 - 0
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Request a sales quoteAdvances 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.
- 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
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
- 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
- Edition: 2
- Published: January 14, 2023
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- No. of pages: 510
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780081030073
- eBook ISBN: 9780081030080
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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, DenmarkRN
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 NetherlandsSG
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, DemarkRead Advances in Wind Turbine Blade Design and Materials on ScienceDirect