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Fatigue life prediction of wind turbine blade composite materials

Vassilopoulos, Anastasios P.  
Nijssen, RPL
•
Brondsted, P.
2013
Advances in wind turbine blade design and materials

Fatigue life prediction of wind turbine rotor blades is a very challenging task, as blade failure is led by different failure types that act synergistically. Inherent defects like wrinkles, fiber misalignments and voids, that can be introduced during fabrication, can constitute potential damage initiation points and rapidly develop to failure mechanisms like matrix cracking, transverse-ply cracking, interface cracking, debonding, fiber breakage, etc. Different methods have been established to address this problem, some based on phenomenological and others on actual damage mechanics modeling. This chapter aims to provide an overview of fatigue life modeling and prediction methodologies for the composite materials and structural composite elements that compose a wind turbine rotor blade under complex loading conditions

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DOI
10.1533/9780857097286.2.251
Author(s)
Vassilopoulos, Anastasios P.  
Editors
Nijssen, RPL
•
Brondsted, P.
Date Issued

2013

Publisher

Woodhead publishing

Published in
Advances in wind turbine blade design and materials
ISBN of the book

0-85709-426-2

Start page

251

End page

297

Issue
2
Subjects

fatigue life prediction

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phenomenological fatigue modeling

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residual strength

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residual stiffness

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fracture

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OTHER

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