Design of a fibrous composite preform for wind turbine rotor blades

Materials and Design

Volumn 56, Issue , 2014, Pages 635-641

  Zangenberg, J ^a,b   Brondsted P ^b   Koefoed, M ^a  

^a LM WIND POWER   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Composite; Glass fibre; Non crimp fabric; Preform design; Wind turbine rotor blade

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; DESIGN; GLASS FIBERS; HELICOPTER ROTORS; PREFORMING; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; WIND TURBINES;

DESIGN OF COMPOSITES; FIBROUS COMPOSITES; INFORMATION SOURCES; NON-CRIMP FABRICS; PREFORM DESIGN; WIND TURBINE BLADE TECHNOLOGY; WIND TURBINE BLADES; WIND TURBINE ROTORS;

LAMINATED COMPOSITES;

EID: 84890373293     PISSN: 02613069     EISSN: 18734197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2013.11.036     Document Type: Article

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