Advances in Wind Turbine Blade Design and Materials, Second Edition, builds on the thorough review of the design and functionality of wind turbine rotor blades and the requirements and challenges for composite materials used in both current and future designs of wind turbine blades.
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Table of Contents
Part I: Wind turbine blade design: challenges and developments1. Introduction to wind turbine blade design
2. Loads on wind turbine blades
3. Aerodynamic design of wind turbine rotors
4. Aerodynamic characteristics of wind turbine blade airfoils
5. Aeroelastic design of wind turbine blades
Part II: Fatigue behaviour of composite wind turbine blades
6. Fatigue as a design driver for composite wind turbine blades
7. Effects of resin and reinforcement variations on fatigue resistance of wind turbine blades
8. Fatigue life prediction of wind turbine blade composite materials
9. Micromechanical modelling of wind turbine blade materials
10. Probabilistic design of wind turbine blades
Part III: Advances in wind turbine blade materials, development and testing
11. Biobased composites: materials, properties and potential applications as wind turbine blade materials
12. Surface protection and coatings for wind turbine rotor blades
13. Design, manufacture and testing of small wind turbine blades
14. Wind turbine blade structural performance testing
Authors
Povl Brondsted Professor, Ris�-DTU National Laboratory of Sustainable Energy, Denmark. Prof. Povl Br�ndsted leads a research program on composites and material mechanics at the Materials Research Department in the National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy at the Technical University of Denmark. Rogier P. L Nijssen Research Scientist, Wind Turbine Materials and Constructions (WMC), The Netherlands. Dr Rogier Nijssen is a research scientist at the Knowledge Centre Wind Turbine Materials and Constructions, The Netherlands. Their research has been both in research contracts and in public projects. Br�ndsted and Nijssen have worked together in material research consortia such as the European Optimat and Upwind projects. Stergios Goutianos Senior Researcher, Department of Wind Energy, Composites and Materials Mechanics, DTU, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Demark. Dr Stergios Goutianos is Senior Researcher, Department of Wind Energy, Composites and Materials Mechanics, DTU, Danmarks Tekniske UniversitetAreas of interest, inter-fibre, fibrous networks, fracture resistance, mix load, fatigue testing in wind turbines
