ReliaBlade Project

A Materials Perspective towards the Digitalization of Wind Turbine Rotor Blades

verfasst von

Florian Sayer, Alexandros Antoniou, Stergios Goutianos, Ingo Gebauer, Kim Branner, Claudio Balzani

Abstract

In many industries, digitalization is expected to have a significant economic potential. The digitalization of wind turbine rotor blades including their materials could contribute to accelerate the development of novel and tailored materials, to improve the blades’ reliability, and to make wind energy more cost efficient. However, the digitalization of the blades through their entire life cycle is challenging e.g. due to the dependence of the material properties on the manufacturing process parameters, the complex structural health monitoring and the challenging modelling of blade response under complex loading. In the presented work based on the results of the ReliaBlade project, a theoretical approach is attempted towards describing the blade insitu structural performance, based on the material properties, the blade manufacturing processes and loading history. In the first phase of the ReliaBlade project, an experimental blade for fullscale testing with three pre-defined internal damage modes is designed. Based on these damage modes the digitalization approach towards increasing the blade structural reliability is exemplarily shown.

Organisationseinheit(en)

Institut für Windenergiesysteme

Externe Organisation(en)

DTU Wind Energy
Fraunhofer-Institut für Windenergiesysteme (IWES)

Typ

Artikel

Journal

IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering

Band

942

Anzahl der Seiten

11

ISSN

1757-8981

Publikationsdatum

23.10.2020

Publikationsstatus

Veröffentlicht

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Allgemeiner Maschinenbau, Allgemeine Materialwissenschaften

Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung

SDG 7 – Erschwingliche und saubere Energie

Elektronische Version(en)

https://doi.org/10.1088/1757-899X/942/1/012006 (Zugang: Offen)