A methodology for the structural analysis of composite wind turbine blades under geometric and material induced instabilities

Computers and Structures

Volumn 88, Issue 19-20, 2010, Pages 1092-1109

  Overgaard, L C T ^a   Lund, E ^a   Camanho, P P ^b  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Buckling; Composite materials; Damage mechanics; Delamination; Nonlinear finite element; Solution strategy

Indexed keywords

COHESIVE ELEMENT; COMPOSITE WIND TURBINE BLADE; CONTROL STRATEGIES; DAMAGE MECHANICS; ELASTIC SOLIDS; MIXED MODE; MODELING STRATEGY; MULTIPLE CRACK; MULTIPLE DELAMINATIONS; NON-LINEAR FINITE ELEMENTS; SOLUTION STRATEGY; SUB-MODELING APPROACH;

DELAMINATION; LAMINATED COMPOSITES; LAMINATING; MECHANICS; STEEL SHEET; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION); THREE DIMENSIONAL; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

EID: 77955775664     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruc.2010.06.008     Document Type: Article

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