Design and testing of a deformable wind turbine blade control surface

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Daynes, S ^a   Weaver, P M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROELASTIC MODELS; ANISOTROPIC PROPERTY; ARAMID HONEYCOMB; BLADE SECTION; DESIGN REQUIREMENTS; DYNAMIC TESTS; ENERGY CAPTURE; HIGH STIFFNESS; HONEYCOMB CORE; LIFT COEFFICIENT; LOAD ALLEVIATION; MORPHING; PARAMETRIC STUDY; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS; POWER SUPPLY; STATIC AND DYNAMIC; THICKNESS DIRECTION; TRAILING EDGE FLAPS; TRAILING EDGES; WIND TUNNEL TESTS; WIND TURBINE BLADES;

DESIGN; HONEYCOMB STRUCTURES; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SILICONES; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

CONTROL SURFACES;

EID: 84865975438     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/21/10/105019     Document Type: Article

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