Energies | Free Full-Text | Comparison of Shell and Solid Finite Element Models for the Static Certification Tests of a 43 m Wind Turbine Blade | HTML
Abstract: A commercial 43 m wind turbine blade was tested under static loads. During these tests, loads, displacements, and local strains were recorded. In this work, the blade was modeled using the finite element method. Both a segment of the spar structure and the full-scale blade were modeled. In both cases, conventional outer mold layer shell and layered solid models were created by means of an in-house developed software tool....
