Advances in Wind Turbine Blade Design and Materials

A thorough review of the design and functionality of wind turbine rotor blades

Povl Brondsted (Edited by), Rogier P. L Nijssen (Edited by), Stergios Goutianos (Edited by)

9780081030073, Elsevier Science

Paperback / softback, published 18 January 2023

510 pages, Approx. 100 illustrations
23.4 x 15.6 x 3.2 cm, 1 kg

Advances in Wind Turbine Blade Design and Materials, Second Edition, builds on the thorough review of the design and functionality of wind turbine rotor blades and the requirements and challenges for composite materials used in both current and future designs of wind turbine blades.

Part I: Wind turbine blade design: challenges and developments
1. Introduction to wind turbine blade design
2. Loads on wind turbine blades
3. Aerodynamic design of wind turbine rotors
4. Aerodynamic characteristics of wind turbine blade airfoils
5. Aeroelastic design of wind turbine blades

Part II: Fatigue behaviour of composite wind turbine blades
6. Fatigue as a design driver for composite wind turbine blades
7. Effects of resin and reinforcement variations on fatigue resistance of wind turbine blades
8. Fatigue life prediction of wind turbine blade composite materials
9. Micromechanical modelling of wind turbine blade materials
10. Probabilistic design of wind turbine blades

Part III: Advances in wind turbine blade materials, development and testing
11. Biobased composites: materials, properties and potential applications as wind turbine blade materials
12. Surface protection and coatings for wind turbine rotor blades
13. Design, manufacture and testing of small wind turbine blades
14. Wind turbine blade structural performance testing

Subject Areas: Alternative & renewable energy sources & technology [THX]