Factory-Scale Simulation and Economic Modeling for the Advancement of the Manufacturing Process of Composite Wind Turbine Blades

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
MATTEO POLCARI ◽  
STEPHEN JOHNSON ◽  
JAMES SHERWOOD
Keyword(s):  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Manufacturing Process ◽  
Turbine Blades ◽  
Economic Modeling ◽  
Wind Turbine Blades

Structural design and manufacturing process of a low scale bio-inspired wind turbine blades

2019 ◽  
Vol 208 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camilo Herrera ◽  
Mariana Correa ◽  
Valentina Villada ◽  
Juan D. Vanegas ◽  
Juan G. García ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Structural Design ◽  
Manufacturing Process ◽  
Turbine Blades ◽  
Wind Turbine Blades ◽  
Design And Manufacturing

Study on Material Selection and Manufacturing Process of Wind Turbine Blades

2010 ◽  
Vol 150-151 ◽  
pp. 1621-1624
Author(s):  
Jin Xu ◽  
Wei Zhang ◽  
Chun Xia Wang
Keyword(s):  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Manufacturing Process ◽  
Material Selection ◽  
Structural Characteristics ◽  
Turbine Blades ◽  
Wind Turbine Blades ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Manufacturing Technologies

The materials and structural characteristics of several kinds of wind turbine blades are introduced and analyzed as well as the advantages and disadvantages of blades composites in this paper. Then the manufacturing technologies between traditional and high-quality composite wind turbine blades are studied and compared in this paper.

scholarly journals Manufacturing of Advanced Composite Wind Turbine Blades for Counter Rotating Vertical Wind Turbine

2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-56
Author(s):  
Mihaela Raluca Condruz ◽  
Ion Malael ◽  
Ionut Sebastian Vintila ◽  
Mihail Puscas Cernat
Keyword(s):  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Manufacturing Process ◽  
Turbine Blades ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Manufacturing Technology ◽  
Vertical Wind ◽  
Iterative Approach ◽  
Wind Turbine Blades ◽  
Advanced Composite ◽  
Advanced Technologies

The paper presents the manufacturing process of advanced composite wind turbine blades designed for an experimental counter rotating vertical wind turbine (CR-VAWT). An iterative approach was used to present the manufacturing process of turbine blades starting from presentation of the turbine structure and material description as well as all manufacturing process stages. Two types of turbine blades were successfully manufactured using metallic molds and a cost-effective manufacturing technology. Based on the turbine blades obtained it can be said that the selected manufacturing process showed good results, very similar with results expected in case of using advanced technologies (i.e. autoclave technology.

Simulating the Manufacturing Process and Subsequent Structural Stiffness of Composite Wind Turbine Blades with and without Defects

2012 ◽  
Vol 504-506 ◽  
pp. 249-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Konstantine A. Fetfatsidis ◽  
Cynthia Mitchell ◽  
James A. Sherwood ◽  
Eric Harvey ◽  
Peter Avitabile
Keyword(s):  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Manufacturing Process ◽  
Turbine Blades ◽  
Hybrid Approach ◽  
Structural Stiffness ◽  
Wind Turbine Blades ◽  
Forming Process ◽  
Shell Elements ◽  
Reinforced Composite ◽  
Out Of Plane

Traditional ply-based and zone-based models are limited in their ability to account for the fiber directions resulting from the forming of fabric-reinforced composite wind turbine blades. Compounding the problem is the presence of defects such as resin-rich pockets of the polymer matrix due to out-of-plane and in-plane waves resulting from the manufacturing process. As a result, blades are typically overdesigned, unnecessarily increasing weight and material costs. In the current research, a methodology is presented for simulating the manufacturing process for fabric-reinforced composite wind turbine blades using ABAQUS/Explicit. The methodology captures the evolution of the yarn directions during the forming process thereby allowing for a map of the fiber orientations throughout the blade. A hybrid approach using conventional beam and shell elements is used to model the various fabric layers. Using experimental shear, tensile, bending, and friction data to characterize the mechanical behavior of the fabric layers, the model captures in-plane yarn waviness and changes in the in-plane yarn orientations as they conform to the shape of the mold, as well as out-of-plane wave defects as a result of the manufacturing process. Subsequently, after the fabric layers have been laid into the mold and the final yarn orientations are known, the structural stiffness of the blade resulting from the resin-infused fabrics can be calculated. The methodology can thereby link the resulting bending and torsional stiffnesses of the blade back to the manufacturing process. This paper discusses the methodology for determining the material properties of the beam and shell elements in their final orientations in the cured composite to predict the structural stiffness of a wind turbine blade.

Experiments of Wind Turbine Blades with Rocket Triggered Lightning

2009 ◽  
Vol 129 (5) ◽  
pp. 689-695
Author(s):  
Masayuki Minowa ◽  
Shinichi Sumi ◽  
Masayasu Minami ◽  
Kenji Horii
Keyword(s):  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Turbine Blades ◽  
Wind Turbine Blades ◽  
Triggered Lightning

Folding of flexible hinges for aircraft wingtips and wind turbine blades

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aileen G. Bowen Perez ◽  
Giovanni Zucco ◽  
Paul Weaver
Keyword(s):  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Turbine Blades ◽  
Wind Turbine Blades

Evaluation of the influence of wind speed and angle of attack on the aerodynamic effect of wind turbine blades

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salete Alves ◽  
Luiz Guilherme Vieira Meira de Souza ◽  
Edália Azevedo de Faria ◽  
Maria Thereza dos Santos Silva ◽  
Ranaildo Silva
Keyword(s):  
Wind Speed ◽  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Turbine Blades ◽  
Angle Of Attack ◽  
Wind Turbine Blades ◽  
Aerodynamic Effect
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