Design, manufacture and testing of small wind turbine blades

Title: Design, manufacture and testing of small wind turbine blades
Creator: Clausen, P. D.; Reynal, F.; Wood, D. H.
Relation: Advances in Wind Turbine Blade Design and Materials p. 413-431
Relation: Woodhead Publishing Series in Energy 47
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1533/9780857097286.3.413
Publisher: Woodhead Publishing
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2013
Description: Small wind turbine blades share a number of features with large blades, but have some important differences. The two main differences are their much higher rotational speed, which causes more fatigue cycles and higher yaw moments, and their operation at low Reynolds number, which means that thick aerofoil sections cannot be used near the root. This chapter discusses the design challenges arising from these differences, the materials commonly used for blade manufacture, and the fatigue testing of small blades. The use of timber is highlighted for very small blades, and fibre-reinforced composite manufacture of larger ones is discussed in terms of sustainability, conformity of manufactured shape, and fatigue behaviour.
Subject: small blades; timber; composites; gyroscopic loads; fatigue; testing
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1337310
Identifier: uon:27817
Identifier: ISBN:9780857094261
Language: eng

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