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In the wind industry, the current trend is towards building larger and larger turbines. This presents additional structural challenges and requires blade materials that are both lighter and stiffer than the ones presently used. This study is aimed to aid the work of designing new wind turbine blades by providing a comparative study of different composite materials. A coupled Finite-Element-Method (FEM) - Blade Element Momentum (BEM) code was used to simulate the aerodynamic forces subjected on the blade. For this study, the finite element study was conducted on the Static Structural Workbench of ANSYS, as for the geometry of the blade it was imported from a previous study prepared by Cornell University. Confirmation of the performance analysis of the chosen wind turbine blade is presented and discussed including the generated power, tip deflection, thrust and tangential force for a steady flow of 8m/s.§A homogenization method was applied to derive the mechanical properties and ultimate strengths of the composites. The Tsai-Hill and Hoffman failure criterions were both conducted to the resulting stresses and shears for each blade composite material structure to determine the presence of static rupture. A progressive fatigue damage model was conducted to simulate the fatigue behavior of laminated composite materials, an algorithm developed by Shokrieh.

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Book category Books in English Economics, finance, business & management Business & management

• Full title: Advances in Composite Wind Turbine Blades
• Subtitle: A Comparative Study
• Author: Adam Chehouri
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 86
• EAN: 9783954892303
• ISBN: 3954892308
• ID: 02539981
• Publisher: Anchor Academic Publishing
• Weight: 113 g
• Dimensions: 210 × 148 × 6 mm
• Date of publishing: 19. March 2014

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