AnalySwift, LLC, a provider of efficient high-fidelity modeling software for composites and other advanced materials, announced today the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy ...

Thanks to the innovative radar scanner, defects in the material composition of the wind turbine blades can now be detected with far greater accuracy and visualized in a cross-sectional view, thereby ...

This chapter focuses on those parameters that pertain to the manufacturing process for rotor blades. However, the design and the process are so interrelated that one can not be discussed without the ...

Is the wind turbine’s rotor blade still intact? Or does it have tiny air bubbles that could expand and eventually cause a fracture? Material defects can be quickly and cost-efficiently detected using ...

Although short by comparison with other composites markets, the history of wind turbine blade manufacturing has been quite varied in terms of the materials and technologies used. Yet, to this point, ...

Unprecedented wind energy growth — nearly 30 percent per annum over the past five years — is pressuring wind blade manufacturers to turn out more blades, more quickly, at a lower cost. Many ...

Wind turbine rotor blades are a high-technology product that must be produced at moderate cost for the resulting energy to be competitive in price. This means that the basic materials must provide a ...