Comparison of tensile fatigue resistance and constant life diagrams for several potential wind turbine blade laminates

Collection of Technical Papers - 45th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting

Volumn 14, Issue , 2007, Pages 9967-9984

  Samborsky, Daniel D ^a   Wilson, Timothy J ^a   Mandell, John F ^a  

^a Montana State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON FIBERS; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; GLASS; STIFFNESS; WIND TURBINES;

CONSTANT LIFE DIAGRAMS; STATIC STRENGTHS;

LAMINATES;

EID: 34250798501     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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