Preface |
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Acknowledgments |
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About the Author |
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1 Applications throughout the World |
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1.2 Large Wind: Blades and Rotors |
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1.2.1 Key Blade and Rotor Manufacturing Challenges |
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1.3 How Wind Turbines Work |
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1.3.1 Types of Wind Turbines |
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1.3.2 Sizes of Wind Turbines |
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1.3.3 Inside the Wind Turbine |
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1.3.4 Contradictory Goals |
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1.3.5 Smooth and Continuous Development |
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1.4 Market for Wind Turbine Composites |
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1.4.3 Technology Evaluation |
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1.4.4 Market and Turbine Components Material Data |
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1.4.4.1 Wind Energy Market Dynamics |
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1.4.4.2 About Owens Corning |
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1.4.4.3 Wind Turbine Database |
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1.4.5 Components Development Trends |
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2 Design Wind Power Turbine |
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2.4 Transmission for Wind Turbine Blades |
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2.5.1 Theoretical Investigation |
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2.5.2 Experimental Investigation |
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2.6 Power Control of Wind Turbines |
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2.6.1 Pitch-Controlled Wind Turbines |
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2.6.2 Hydraulic Pitch Control |
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2.6.3 Stall-Controlled Wind Turbines |
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2.6.4 Active Stall-Controlled Wind Turbines |
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2.6.5 Individual Pitch Control |
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2.6.6 Other Power Control Methods |
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2.7 Wind Turbine Components |
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2.7.2.2 Gear Rim and Pinions |
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2.8 Proposal for Robust Redesign Turbine Blades |
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2.8.2 Loads Acting Outside Wind Turbine Blades |
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2.8.3 The Automatic 3-Axial Braiding Process |
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2.8.5 Shell Curing Mold Prepreg Process |
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2.9 Minimizing the Optimal Number of Shear Webs (Spars) and Their Placement |
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2.10 Skin Stiffness and Thickness Blade Calculation |
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2.10.2 Stiffness Calculation |
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2.10.3 Skin Thickness Calculation of Blades |
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2.10.3.1 Experimental Results |
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2.11 Deflection of Wind Hybrid Blades |
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2.11.1 Experimental Investigation |
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3 Materials for Turbine Power Blades, Reinforcements, and Resins |
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3.1 Materials Requirements |
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3.2 Structural Composite Material |
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3.3 Resins Advantages: Low Viscosity and Low Curing Time |
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3.4 Rapid Curing Resin System |
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3.5 Reinforced Material: Carbon Fiber and Glass Fiber Fabrics |
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3.5.2 Twill Weave Kevlar® |
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3.6 Core Materials: Honeycomb Sandwich Structures and Adhesives |
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3.7 Material Promises a Better Blade Resistance to Wear and Tear |
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3.7.1 Owens Corning's Ultrablade Fabric Solutions |
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3.7.2 Film Layer Protects Wind Turbine Blades against Electromagnetic Fields |
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3.7.3 Painting of Wind Turbines |
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3.8 Field Study of Wind Turbine Blade Erosion |
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3.8.2 Field Study and Maintenance |
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3.8.3 Polybutadiene Resins |
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3.8.3.1 Hydroxyl Functionality |
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3.8.3.2 Hydrolytic Stability |
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3.8.3.3 High Hydrophobicity |
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3.8.3.4 Low Temperature Flexibility |
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3.8.3.5 Adhesion Properties |
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3.8.4 AIRTHANE PET-91A-Based Elastomers |
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3.9 Rheological Behavior of Flow Resins |
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3.9.3 Effect of Styrene Contents |
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3.9.4 Effect of Temperature |
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3.9.5 Effect of Molecular Weight |
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3.9.6 Relations between the Viscosity, Processing, Temperature, and Glass Transition Temperature |
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4 Manufacturing Technologies for Turbine Power Blades |
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4.2 Wet Hand Lay-Up Process |
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4.5 Resin Infusion Technology |
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4.6 Out-of-Autoclave Composite Prepreg Process |
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4.6.2 Curing Laminates without Autoclave |
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4.6.3 Select Technological Parameters and Cure Conditions |
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4.7 Developing Technology for Robust Automation Winding Process |
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4.7.1.1 Fiber Placement Process |
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4.7.1.2 Continuous Molding Prepreg Process |
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4.8 Infusion Molding Process |
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4.9.3 Equipment and Tooling |
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4.9.4 Standard Setup and Equipment for Rotational Molding |
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4.9.4.1 Rock and Roll Rotating Molding Machines |
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4.9.4.2 Clamshell Machine |
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4.9.4.3 Vertical or Up and Over Rotational Machine |
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4.9.4.4 Shuttle or Swing Arm Machine |
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4.9.6 Recent Improvements |
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4.9.7 Mold Release Agents |
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4.9.8.1 Natural Materials |
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4.9.9.2 Designing for Rotational Molding |
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4.9.9.3 Material Limitations and Considerations |
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4.9.10 Process: Advantages, Limitations, and Material Requirements |
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5.1 Stress and Vibration Analysis of Composite Wind Turbine Blades |
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5.2 Stress Analysis of Propeller Blades |
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5.3 Theoretical Investigation |
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5.5 Experimental Analysis |
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5.6 Mechanical Measurements Deformations in Hybrid Turbine Blades |
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5.6.2 Strain-Stress Relation |
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5.7 Mechanical and Thermal Properties |
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5.7.2 History of Investigating Mechanical Properties |
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5.7.3 Testing Mechanical and Thermal Properties of the Prepreg Laminates |
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5.8 Fatigue Strength and Weibull Analysis |
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5.8.2 Fatigue Strength Prediction |
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5.8.3 Static and Dynamic Fatigue Strength |
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5.8.4 Experimental Investigation |
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5.9 Dynamic Analysis: Fourier Function for Prediction of Fatigue Lifecycle Test |
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5.9.2 Theoretical Investigation |
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5.9.3 Experimental Investigation |
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5.10 Simulating Dynamics, Durability, and Noise Emission of Wind Turbines |
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5.10.2 Engineering Challenges |
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5.10.3 An Integrated Simulation Process |
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5.10.4 Multibody Simulation to Assess Dynamic Behavior |
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5.10.5 Optimizing Overall Durability Performance |
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5.10.6 Complying with Noise Regulations |
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5.10.7 Optimizing the Overall Wind Turbine System Behavior |
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6 NDE Digital Methods for Predicting Stiffness and Strength of Wind Turbine Blades |
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6.1 Ultrasonic Nondestructive Method to Determine Modulus of Elasticity of Wind Turbine Blades |
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6.1.2 Theory and Application of Ultrasonic Method |
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6.2 Dynamic Local Mechanical and Thermal Strength Prediction Using NDT for Material Parameters Evaluation of Wind Turbine Blades |
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6.2.2 Experimental Investigation Results |
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6.3 Noncontact Measurement of Delaminating Cracks Predicts the Failure in Hybrid Wind Turbine Blades |
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6.3.2 Damage Mechanisms of Failure |
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6.3.3 Temperature Measurement of the Surface of an FRP |
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6.3.4 Fatigue Strength Improvement |
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6.4 Nondestructive Inspection Technologies for Wind Turbine Blades |
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6.4.2 Measurement Concept |
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6.4.3 Application of the PSP/TSP Technique |
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6.4.4 Luminescent Paint Control |
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6.4.5 Experimental Investigation |
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7 Aerodynamic Structural Noise |
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7.2 Wind Turbine Aerodynamics |
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7.2.1 Axial Momentum and the Betz Limit |
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7.3 Measuring Wind Turbine Noise |
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7.4 Reduce Noise in Wind Turbine Blades |
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7.5 Sound Emissions, Temperature and Pressure |
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7.5.1 Density, Temperature, and Pressure Correlation |
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7.6 Offshore Support Structures for Power Wind Turbine Blades |
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7.6.1.1 Support Structure Design |
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7.6.3 Offshore Wind Initiative |
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Index |
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