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https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-19-2022
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https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-19-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Land-based wind turbines with flexible rail-transportable blades – Part 2: 3D finite element design optimization of the rotor blades
Wind Energy Technologies Department, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185, USA
Evan Anderson
Wind Energy Technologies Department, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185, USA
Josh Paquette
Wind Energy Technologies Department, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185, USA
Pietro Bortolotti
National Wind Technology Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO 80401, USA
Roland Feil
National Wind Technology Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO 80401, USA
Nick Johnson
National Wind Technology Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO 80401, USA
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- Compressive strength improvements from noncircular carbon fibers: A numerical study E. Camarena et al.
- A critical verification of beam and shell models of wind turbine blades E. Camarena & E. Anderson
- Fatigue load evaluation of multiple floating wind turbine systems M. Ucar et al.
- Onshore Wind Farm Development: Technologies and Layouts F. Haces-Fernandez et al.
- Enhanced approach to match damage-equivalent loads in rotor blade fatigue testing D. Melcher et al.
- Effect of microdamage on the failure of open-hole UD GFRP laminates: A combined experimental and numerical study Ö. Şener & A. Kayran
- Accurate Modeling of Material Nonlinearities in a Wind Turbine Spar Cap R. Clarke et al.
- The importance of aeroelasticity in estimating multiaxial fatigue behaviour of large floating offshore wind turbine blades M. Sirigu et al.
- Aero‐servo‐elastic co‐optimization of large wind turbine blades with distributed aerodynamic control devices N. Abbas et al.
- Experimental study on flexible and rigid 3D-Printed Savonius vertical axis wind turbines with aerodynamic augmentation N. Ghareeb et al.
- Leveraging machine learning for analyzing structural behavior of a composite wind turbine blade R. Rafiee et al.
- Heterogeneous Beam Element for Multiscale Modeling of Non-prismatic Composite Beam-like Structures R. Chiu & W. Yu
- Economic competitiveness of pultruded fiber composites for wind turbine applications B. Ennis et al.
- Environmental and Economic Assessment of Wind Turbine Blade Recycling Approaches E. Sproul et al.
- Elliptical biaxial testing: Overcoming the limitations of uniaxial methods in wind turbine rotor blade fatigue assessment D. Melcher & M. Rosemeier
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Short summary
The length of rotor blades of land-based wind turbines is currently constrained by logistics. Turbine manufacturers currently propose segmented solutions to overcome these limits, but blade joints come with extra masses and costs. This work investigates an alternative solution, namely the design of ultra-flexible blades that can be transported on rail via controlled bending. The results show that this is a promising pathway to further increasing the size of land-based wind turbines.
The length of rotor blades of land-based wind turbines is currently constrained by logistics....
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