Articles | Volume 8, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-421-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-421-2023
Research article
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27 Mar 2023
Research article |  | 27 Mar 2023

Assessing the rotor blade deformation and tower–blade tip clearance of a 3.4 MW wind turbine with terrestrial laser scanning

Paula Helming, Alex Intemann, Klaus-Peter Webersinke, Axel von Freyberg, Michael Sorg, and Andreas Fischer

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Interactive discussion

Status: closed

Comment types: AC – author | RC – referee | CC – community | EC – editor | CEC – chief editor | : Report abuse
  • RC1: 'Comment on wes-2022-105', Anonymous Referee #1, 10 Dec 2022
    • AC1: 'Reply on RC1', Paula Helming, 16 Dec 2022
      • RC4: 'Reply on AC1', Muammer Özbek, 16 Dec 2022
  • RC2: 'Comment on wes-2022-105', S. Artese, 10 Dec 2022
    • AC2: 'Reply on RC2', Paula Helming, 16 Dec 2022
  • RC3: 'Comment on wes-2022-105', Muammer Özbek, 16 Dec 2022

Peer review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision | EF: Editorial file upload
AR by Paula Helming on behalf of the Authors (09 Jan 2023)  Author's response   Author's tracked changes   Manuscript 
ED: Publish as is (10 Jan 2023) by Weifei Hu
ED: Publish as is (22 Feb 2023) by Athanasios Kolios (Chief editor)
AR by Paula Helming on behalf of the Authors (27 Feb 2023)  Manuscript 
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Short summary
Using renewable energy such as wind energy is vital. To optimize the energy yield from wind turbines, they have increased in size, leading to large blade deformations. This paper measures these deformations for different wind loads and the distance between the blade and the tower from 170 m away from the wind turbine. The paper proves that the blade deformation increases in the wind direction with increasing wind speed, while the distance between the blade and the tower decreases.
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