A coupled aeroelastic damage progression model for wind turbine blades

Composite Structures

Volumn 94, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 3072-3081

  Cárdenas, Diego ^a   Elizalde, Hugo ^a   Marzocca, Piergiovanni ^b   Gallegos, Sergio ^a   Probst, Oliver ^a  

^a SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND SCIENCES   (Mexico)

^b CLARKSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aeroelasticity; Composite structures; Finite element; Progressive failure analysis; Thin wall beam; Wind turbine blade

Indexed keywords

BEAM MODEL; COMPOSITE WIND TURBINE BLADE; DAMAGE PROGRESSION; FINITE ELEMENT; FINITE-ELEMENT MODELS; HIGH-ORDER; MULTI-STEP; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL; PROGRESSIVE FAILURE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME; REAL-TIME PREDICTION; REDUCED ORDER MODELS; STRESS FIELD; THIN WALLS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRESS FIELD; TURBINE BLADE; USER INTERVENTION; WIND TURBINE BLADES;

AERODYNAMICS; AEROELASTICITY; COMPOSITE STRUCTURES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; STRESSES; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; WIND TURBINES;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 84862201374     PISSN: 02638223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2012.03.034     Document Type: Article

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