Characterization of High Fiber Volume Fraction Glass Pultruded Plates for Wind Turbine Blades

In recent years, the wind energy industry shows more and more interest in composite materials manufactured with a new process called pultrusion. The advantage of pultruded composite plates includes high fiber volume fraction, low price and simplified blade manufacturing. However, pultruded plates are fully cured and crosslinking is absent at...

Fatigue analysis of discharge area of 26kl tank container under railway transportation

Tank containers are intermodal containers for the transport of liquids, gases, and powders as bulk cargo However, hazardous vibration during transportation would generate fatigue damage at discharge area. This thesis aims at calculating fatigue damage at discharge area of a specified tank container. <br/><br/>The calculation is performed in time...