Design, manufacture and testing of small wind turbine blades

Advances in Wind Turbine Blade Design and Materials

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 413-431

  Clausen, P D ^a   Reynal, F ^a   Wood, D H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Composites; Fatigue; Gyroscopic loads; Small blades; Testing; Timber

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FATIGUE TESTING; FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; MANUFACTURE; MATERIALS TESTING; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TESTING; TIMBER; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; WIND TURBINES;

DESIGN CHALLENGES; FATIGUE BEHAVIOUR; FIBRE REINFORCED COMPOSITES; GYROSCOPIC LOADS; LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER; ROTATIONAL SPEED; SMALL BLADES; SMALL WIND TURBINE BLADES;

TURBINE COMPONENTS;

EID: 84902555300     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1533/9780857097286.3.413     Document Type: Chapter

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