Development of a bamboo-based composite as a sustainable green material for wind turbine blades

Wind Engineering

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 197-210

  Holmes, John W ^a   Brøndsted, Povl ^a   Sørensen, Bent F ^a   Jiang, Zehui ^b   Sun, Zhengjun ^b   Chen, Xuhe ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR BAMBOO AND RATTAN   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ATTRIBUTES; EPOXY LAMINATES; FATIGUE LIFE; FRACTURE RESISTANCE; GREEN MATERIALS; LOADING CONDITION; MODE II; STRESS-STRAIN BEHAVIORS; TENSION-TENSION; WIND TURBINE BLADES;

BAMBOO; HOT PRESSING; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

BAMBOO; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; STRESS-STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 77954407713     PISSN: 0309524X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1260/030952409789141053     Document Type: Article

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