Book description
Wind energy is gaining critical ground in the area of renewable energy, with wind energy being predicted to provide up to 8% of the world’s consumption of electricity by 2021. Advances in wind turbine blade design and materials reviews the design and functionality of wind turbine rotor blades as well as the requirements and challenges for composite materials used in both current and future designs of wind turbine blades.Part one outlines the challenges and developments in wind turbine blade design, including aerodynamic and aeroelastic design features, fatigue loads on wind turbine blades, and characteristics of wind turbine blade airfoils. Part two discusses the fatigue behavior of composite wind turbine blades, including the micromechanical modelling and fatigue life prediction of wind turbine blade composite materials, and the effects of resin and reinforcement variations on the fatigue resistance of wind turbine blades. The final part of the book describes advances in wind turbine blade materials, development and testing, including biobased composites, surface protection and coatings, structural performance testing and the design, manufacture and testing of small wind turbine blades.
Advances in wind turbine blade design and materials offers a comprehensive review of the recent advances and challenges encountered in wind turbine blade materials and design, and will provide an invaluable reference for researchers and innovators in the field of wind energy production, including materials scientists and engineers, wind turbine blade manufacturers and maintenance technicians, scientists, researchers and academics.
- 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 energy production
Table of contents
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributor contact details
- Woodhead Publishing Series in Energy
- Introduction
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Part I: Wind turbine blade design: challenges and developments
- Chapter 1: Introduction to wind turbine blade design
- Chapter 2: Loads on wind turbine blades
- Chapter 3: Aerodynamic design of wind turbine rotors
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Chapter 4: Aerodynamic characteristics of wind turbine blade airfoils
- Abstract:
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Computational methods
- 4.3 Desired characteristics
- 4.4 The effect of leading edge contamination (roughness) and Reynolds number
- 4.5 Airfoil testing
- 4.6 Airfoil characteristics at high angles of attack
- 4.7 Correction for centrifugal and Coriolis forces
- 4.8 Establishing data for blade design
- 4.9 Future trends
- Chapter 5: Aeroelastic design of wind turbine blades
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Part II: Fatigue behaviour of composite wind turbine blades
- Chapter 6: Fatigue as a design driver for composite wind turbine blades
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Chapter 7: Effects of resin and reinforcement variations on fatigue resistance of wind turbine blades
- Abstract:
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 Effects of loading conditions for glass and carbon laminates
- 7.3 Tensile fatigue trends with laminate construction and fiber content for glass fiber laminates
- 7.4 Effects of resin and fabric structure on tensile fatigue resistance
- 7.5 Delamination and material transitions
- 7.6 Comparison of fatigue trends for blade materials
- 7.7 Conclusion
- 7.8 Future trends
- 7.9 Sources of further information and advice
- 7.10 Acknowledgments
- Chapter 8: Fatigue life prediction of wind turbine blade composite materials
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Chapter 9: Micromechanical modelling of wind turbine blade materials
- Abstract:
- 9.1 Introduction
- 9.2 Analytical models of the mechanical behaviour, strength and damage of fibre-reinforced composites: an overview
- 9.3 Unit cell modelling of fibre-reinforced composites
- 9.4 Three-dimensional modelling of composite degradation under tensile loading
- 9.5 Carbon fibre-reinforced composites: statistical and compressive loading effects
- 9.6 Hierarchical composites with nanoengineered matrix
- 9.7 Conclusions and future trends
- 9.8 Sources of further information and advice
- 9.9 Acknowledgements
- Chapter 10: Probabilistic design of wind turbine blades
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Part III: Advances in wind turbine blade materials, development and testing
- Chapter 11: Biobased composites: materials, properties and potential applications as wind turbine blade materials
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Chapter 12: Surface protection and coatings for wind turbine rotor blades
- Abstract:
- 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
- Chapter 13: Design, manufacture and testing of small wind turbine blades
- Chapter 14: Wind turbine blade structural performance testing
- Index
Product information
- Title: Advances in Wind Turbine Blade Design and Materials
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2013
- Publisher(s): Woodhead Publishing
- ISBN: 9780857097286
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