Effects of defects in composite wind turbine blades – Part 2: Progressive damage modeling of fiberglass-reinforced epoxy composites with manufacturing-induced waves

Nelson, Jared W.; Riddle, Trey W.; Cairns, Douglas S.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2-653-2017

Articles | Volume 2, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2-653-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2-653-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 2, issue 2

Research article

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19 Dec 2017

Research article |

| 19 Dec 2017

Effects of defects in composite wind turbine blades – Part 2: Progressive damage modeling of fiberglass-reinforced epoxy composites with manufacturing-induced waves

Jared W. Nelson, Trey W. Riddle, and Douglas S. Cairns

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Final revised paper (published on 19 Dec 2017)
Preprint (discussion started on 12 Apr 2017)

Interactive discussion

Status: closed

AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review of Progressive Damage Modeling of Fiberglass/Epoxy Composites with manufacturing induced waves common to wind turbine blades', Anonymous Referee #1, 15 May 2017
- AC1: 'Reply to Reviewer #1', Jared Nelson, 10 Jul 2017
RC2: 'Comments for submitted manuscript wes-2017-15', Anonymous Referee #2, 06 Jun 2017
- AC2: 'Reply to Reviewer #2', Jared Nelson, 10 Jul 2017

Peer-review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (25 Jul 2017) by Lars Pilgaard Mikkelsen

AR by Jared Nelson on behalf of the Authors (21 Aug 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (24 Aug 2017) by Lars Pilgaard Mikkelsen

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (04 Sep 2017)

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (08 Sep 2017)

ED: Publish as is (30 Sep 2017) by Lars Pilgaard Mikkelsen

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (04 Oct 2017) by Jakob Mann (Chief editor)

AR by Jared Nelson on behalf of the Authors (16 Oct 2017) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

The Blade Reliability Collaborative was formed to address wind turbine blade reliability. To better understand and predict these effects, various progressive damage modeling approaches, built upon the characterization previously addressed, were investigated. The results indicate that a combined continuum–discrete approach provides insight into reliability with known defects when used in conjunction with a probabilistic flaw framework.