Innovative structural and aerodynamic design approaches for large wind turbine blades

43rd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit - Meeting Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 9523-9534

  Van Dam, C P ^a,e,f   Mayda, E A ^a,e   Chao, D D ^a,e   Jackson, K J ^b   Zuteck, M D ^c   Berry, D ^d,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Dynamic Design Engineering Inc   (United States)

^c MDZ Consulting   (United States)

^d TPI Composites Inc   (United States)

^e Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering ^*  (United States)

^f AIAA   (United States)

^g Wind Turbine Division

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRFOIL CONCEPTS; CROSS SECTIONS; DESIGN EVALUATION;

AERODYNAMICS; AIRFOILS; DEFLECTION (STRUCTURES); STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

WIND TURBINES;

EID: 30744472955     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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