Interdisciplinary damage and stability analysis of a wind turbine blade

ICCM International Conferences on Composite Materials

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Overgaard, Lars C T ^a   Lund, Erik ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Instability; Mixed mode cohesive element; Wind turbine blade

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE MECHANICS; GLASS CERAMICS; PLASMA STABILITY; STABILITY; TURBINE COMPONENTS; WIND TURBINES;

COHESIVE ELEMENT; FINITE ELEMENT PROGRAMS; GEOMETRIC INSTABILITIES; GEOMETRICALLY NON-LINEAR ANALYSIS; GEOMETRICALLY NONLINEAR; NONLINEAR FRACTURE MECHANICS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE; WIND TURBINE BLADES;

TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

EID: 85076868948     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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