Materials for Wind Turbine Blades: An Overview

A short overview of composite materials for wind turbine applications is presented here. Requirements toward the wind turbine materials, loads, as well as available materials are reviewed. Apart from the traditional composites for wind turbine blades (glass fibers/epoxy matrix composites), natural c...

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Published inMaterials Vol. 10; no. 11; p. 1285
Main Authors Mishnaevsky, Leon, Branner, Kim, Petersen, Helga, Beauson, Justine, McGugan, Malcolm, Sørensen, Bent
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland MDPI AG 09.11.2017
MDPI
Subjects
Composite materials
Epoxy matrix composites
Glass fiber reinforced plastics
Glass-epoxy composites
Polymer matrix composites
Review
Turbine blades
Turbines
Wind turbines
blades
modeling
reliability
manufacturing
wind turbine
wind energy
properties
composite materials
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Summary:A short overview of composite materials for wind turbine applications is presented here. Requirements toward the wind turbine materials, loads, as well as available materials are reviewed. Apart from the traditional composites for wind turbine blades (glass fibers/epoxy matrix composites), natural composites, hybrid and nanoengineered composites are discussed. Manufacturing technologies for wind turbine composites, as well their testing and modelling approaches are reviewed.
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ISSN:1996-1944
1996-1944
DOI:10.3390/ma10111285