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Zhang, Y. (author), Avallone, F. (author), Watson, S.J. (author)Recent decades have witnessed more and more wind turbines (WTs) being installed onshore and offshore. Health condition monitoring for WTs structures and components is increasingly becoming a compelling concern for stable power output and operational safety of a wind farm [1]. Blade damages seem to occur with a higher probability ahead of other...abstract 2021
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de Ronde, Remko (author)Future wind turbines require larger rotor blade radius, leading to an increase of rotor swept area. The larger rotor swept area results in more energy production of the wind turbine. Further increase is however limited as a result of the structural weight, which induces a large bending moment and could result in buckling of the rotor blade. An...master thesis 2018
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Velez Isaza, A. (author)The process of designing a wind turbine blade involves many disciplines and is of an iterative character, making it cumbersome and sometimes inefficient. In this thesis an increased understanding of the physical and modeling considerations required for a better aero-elastic design of a blade is sought. To this end, an aero-structural model is...master thesis 2012
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Joncas, S. (author)This thesis proposes a new structural design concept for future large wind turbine blades based on fully recyclable thermoplastic composites (TPC). With respect to material properties, cost and processing, reactively processed anionic polyamide-6 (APA-6) has been identified as the most promising thermoplastic polymer system for these future wind...doctoral thesis 2010
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Ashuri, T. (author), Van Bussel, G.J.W. (author), Zaayer, M.B. (author), Van Kuik, G.A.M. (author)A wind turbine blade has a complex shape and consists of different elements with dissimilar material properties. To do any aeroelastic simulation, the structural properties of the blade such as stiffnesses and mass per unit length should be known in advance, and extracting these properties is a difficult task. This paper presents an analytical...conference paper 2010
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Shishkin, A. (author), Wagner, C. (author)Large Eddy Simulations (LES) of incompressible turbulent flow around a wind turbine blade at a chord Reynolds number of 5000 are performed using high-order spectral/hp element method (SEM). The method and the early results of the simulations are presented. Some requirements with respect to mesh generation for the SEM concerning h- and p...conference paper 2006