Structural Reuse by Design
Reusing wind turbine blades for building applications
J.J. Joustra (TU Delft - Design for Sustainability)
M.A. Popescu (TU Delft - Applied Mechanics)
Adrien Bousseau (Inst. Natl. Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA))
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Abstract
Construction industry needs large volumes of materials and has a large carbon footprint. And although wind energy is renewable, the blades are hard to recycle leading to material waste. Our goal is to form a virtuous loop between these sectors by reusing wind turbine blades as construction elements. However, designing and building new structures from parts of existing ones raises novel design challenges in terms of geometry, structural properties and performance, processing and assembly. [...]