Energy, Climate, & Infrastructure Security (ECIS)

Wind

Online Abstracts and Reports

On April 27, 2011, in

Active Aero Blade Load Control Design [Abstract] (136KB PDF) [Report] (604KB PDF) “Fabrication, Integration, and Initial Testing of a SMART Rotor” J.C. Berg, D.E. Berg, J. White 50th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting January, 2012 Nashville, TN [Abstract] (104KB PDF) [Report] (492KB PDF) [Video] “Design, Fabrication, Assembly and Initial Testing of a SMART Rotor” D.E. Berg, [...]

Publications

On April 25, 2011, in

Online Abstracts and Reports Topic Selection

Workshops

On April 21, 2011, in

Sandia National Laboratories Wind Energy Technologies department has been holding Wind Turbine Blade and Wind Turbine Reliability workshops since 2004. These  workshops bring together industry experts, wind farm stakeholders and operators, and manufacturers and vendors from throughout the wind industry who address the major issues for wind turbine blades and wind turbine reliability, and allow [...]

Numerical Manufacturing And Design Tool (NuMAD)

On April 5, 2011, in

A software tool named NuMAD© (Numerical Manufacturing And Design) has been developed to simplify the process of creating the three-dimensional finite element model a wind turbine blade. NuMAD© manages all blade information including databases of airfoils, materials, and material placement. NuMAD© is a stand-alone, user-friendly, graphical pre-processor for the ANSYS® commercial finite element package. The [...]

Wind Energy Personnel

On March 24, 2011, in
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