ReliaBlade Project

A Materials Perspective towards the Digitalization of Wind Turbine Rotor Blades

authored by

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.

Organisation(s)

Institute of Wind Energy Systems

External Organisation(s)

DTU Wind Energy
Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems (IWES)

Type

Article

Journal

IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering

Volume

942

No. of pages

11

ISSN

1757-8981

Publication date

23.10.2020

Publication status

Published

Peer reviewed

Yes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Engineering, General Materials Science

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy

Electronic version(s)

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