Concepts for adaptive wind turbine blades

ASME 2002 Wind Energy Symposium, WIND2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 56-69

  Ashwill, Thomas D ^a   Veers, Paul S ^a   Locke, James ^b   Contreras, Ivan ^b   Griffin, Dayton ^c   Zuteck, Mike D ^d  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b Wichita State University   (United States)

^c Global Energy Concepts   (United States)

^d MDZ Consulting   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL DESIGN; FIBER REINFORCED MATERIALS; SWEPT WINGS; TURBINE COMPONENTS; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

BEND-TWIST COUPLING; BLADE STRUCTURES; BRAIDED COMPOSITES; CRITICAL ISSUES; DESIGN ISSUES; DETAILED DESIGN; OPERATING LOADS; WIND TURBINE BLADES;

TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

EID: 27744440156     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/wind2002-28     Document Type: Conference Paper

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