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View article: Adhesive Snap-Fit Joints for Modular Wind Turbine Blades: A Numerical Feasibility Study
Adhesive Snap-Fit Joints for Modular Wind Turbine Blades: A Numerical Feasibility Study Open
Larger rotor diameters are sought by wind turbine manufacturers as they favour cost-effective energy generation. However, manufacturing, transporting, and installing longer blades gets increasingly complicated, time-consuming, and costly. …
View article: Continuously extruded wrapped tow reinforced truss beams
Continuously extruded wrapped tow reinforced truss beams Open
Recent advancements in composite truss structures have achieved high structural efficiency by combining truss geometries and composite materials within scalable manufacturing processes. Filament winding-based approaches, such as the Wrappe…
View article: Sensitivity of cross-sectional compliance to manufacturing tolerances for wind turbine blades
Sensitivity of cross-sectional compliance to manufacturing tolerances for wind turbine blades Open
Wind turbine blades are complex structures and, despite advancements in analysis techniques, differences persist between predictions of their elastic response and experimental results. This undermines confidence in the ability to reliably …
View article: Sensitivity of cross-sectional compliance to manufacturing tolerances for wind turbine blades
Sensitivity of cross-sectional compliance to manufacturing tolerances for wind turbine blades Open
Wind-turbine blades are complex structures and, despite advancements in analysis techniques, differences persist between predictions of their elastic response and experimental results. This undermines confidence in the ability to reliably …
View article: Comparison of blade optimisation strategies for the IEA 15MW reference turbine
Comparison of blade optimisation strategies for the IEA 15MW reference turbine Open
Reference wind turbine models are crucial for enabling the research community to advance technology and meet the challenges associated with upscaling. The IEA 15 MW is one such reference model, designed using NREL’s WISDEM tool, which enab…
View article: A repair algorithm for composite laminates to satisfy lay-up design guidelines
A repair algorithm for composite laminates to satisfy lay-up design guidelines Open
Composite materials, due to their high specific strength and stiffness, are commonly used to design lightweight structures. However, the anisotropy of composite laminates induces complex multi-modal failure mechanisms and often undesired m…
View article: A Novel Approach to Atomistic Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Phenolic Resins Using Symthons
A Novel Approach to Atomistic Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Phenolic Resins Using Symthons Open
Materials science is beginning to adopt computational simulation to eliminate laboratory trial and error campaigns—much like the pharmaceutical industry of 40 years ago. To further computational materials discovery, new methodology must be…
View article: Corotational Finite Element Formulation for Static Nonlinear Analyses with Enriched Beam Elements
Corotational Finite Element Formulation for Static Nonlinear Analyses with Enriched Beam Elements Open
The increasing reliance of aerospace structures on numerical analyses encourages the development of accurate, yet computationally efficient, models. Finite element (FE) beam models have, in particular, become widely used approximations dur…
View article: Finite Beam Elements for Variable Stiffness Structures
Finite Beam Elements for Variable Stiffness Structures Open
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View article: A decoupling control strategy for wind turbine blades equipped with active flow controllers
A decoupling control strategy for wind turbine blades equipped with active flow controllers Open
The use of active controls has shown to be of substantial help in supporting the increasing size of wind turbines by reducing peak stresses and fatigue loads. In this respect, this paper proposes the use of intuitive frequency‐based contro…
View article: Aeroelastic Design of Blended Composite Structures Using Lamination Parameters
Aeroelastic Design of Blended Composite Structures Using Lamination Parameters Open
The design of composite structures based on _bre angle optimisation rapidly becomes intractable as the number of design variables increases. Lamination parameters can be used instead as intermediate design variables in order to overcome th…