ReliaBlade Project: A Materials Perspective towards the Digitalization of Wind Turbine Rotor Blades

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Authors

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

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External Research Organisations

  • DTU Wind Energy
  • Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems (IWES)
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Original languageEnglish
Article number012006
Number of pages11
JournalIOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering
Volume942
Issue number1
Publication statusPublished - 23 Oct 2020

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.

Keywords

    adhesive, failure, manufacturing, residual stress, in situ properties, thermal imaging, digitalization, composite

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Sustainable Development Goals

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ReliaBlade Project: A Materials Perspective towards the Digitalization of Wind Turbine Rotor Blades. / Sayer, Florian; Antoniou, Alexandros; Goutianos, Stergios et al.
In: IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, Vol. 942, No. 1, 012006, 23.10.2020.

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Sayer, F, Antoniou, A, Goutianos, S, Gebauer, I, Branner, K & Balzani, C 2020, 'ReliaBlade Project: A Materials Perspective towards the Digitalization of Wind Turbine Rotor Blades', IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, vol. 942, no. 1, 012006. https://doi.org/10.1088/1757-899X/942/1/012006
Sayer, F., Antoniou, A., Goutianos, S., Gebauer, I., Branner, K., & Balzani, C. (2020). ReliaBlade Project: A Materials Perspective towards the Digitalization of Wind Turbine Rotor Blades. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 942(1), Article 012006. https://doi.org/10.1088/1757-899X/942/1/012006
Sayer F, Antoniou A, Goutianos S, Gebauer I, Branner K, Balzani C. ReliaBlade Project: A Materials Perspective towards the Digitalization of Wind Turbine Rotor Blades. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering. 2020 Oct 23;942(1):012006. doi: 10.1088/1757-899X/942/1/012006
Sayer, Florian ; Antoniou, Alexandros ; Goutianos, Stergios et al. / ReliaBlade Project : A Materials Perspective towards the Digitalization of Wind Turbine Rotor Blades. In: IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering. 2020 ; Vol. 942, No. 1.
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