Defect-tolerant structural design of wind turbine blades

Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Wetzel, Kyle K ^a  

^a Wetzel Engineering Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOND LINE; COMPOSITES MANUFACTURING; CONSTRUCTION METHOD; MANUFACTURING DEFECTS; MANUFACTURING QUALITY CONTROL; OUTER SHELLS; STIFFENING ELEMENTS; TWO-BLADE; WIND TURBINE BLADES; WIND TURBINE ROTORS;

COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; DEFECT STRUCTURES; DESIGN; INDUSTRY; QUALITY CONTROL; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

EID: 84855635305     PISSN: 02734508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (5)

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2. Guidelines for the Certification of Wind Turbines, Edition 2003, Germanischer Lloyd, Hamburg, 01 November 2003.
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