Blade Reliability & Composite Materials December 22, 2021 8:56 am Improving wind-turbine blade manufacturing quality and determining the most cost-effective methods to mitigate environmental damage. Unplanned maintenance and component failures... View Article
Rotor Reliability December 22, 2021 8:54 am Rotor Reliability Blade Materials and Substructures Testing Wind turbine blades are subjected to a higher number of complex loading cycles... View Article
Rotor Blade Sensors and Instrumentation December 22, 2021 8:50 am Why Rotor Instrumentation? During a wind turbine’s operational lifetime, its rotor blades endure a wide variety of wind loading. The... View Article
Rotor Design Tools December 22, 2021 8:42 am Sandia develops computer-aided engineering (CAE) tools with capabilities driven by the needs of current research projects. Rotor design is supported... View Article
Sandia Wind Turbine Loads Database December 22, 2021 8:40 am eval_id: Simulation number The Sandia Wind Turbine Loads Database is divided into six files, each corresponding to approximately 16 years... View Article
Rotor Design December 22, 2021 8:35 am Advanced rotor concepts—from aerodynamics to instrumentation—offer great potential for further improving wind plant performance and reducing energy costs. Sandia leads... View Article
Grid System Planning for Wind: Wind Generator Modeling December 22, 2021 7:57 am Wind generation dominates the interconnection queues and the need for generic, standard, and validated publicly available models, for variable generation... View Article
Hydrogen for Rail Applications December 7, 2021 8:59 am Sandia’s hydrogen for rail program enables the safe and effective use of hydrogen systems for rail applications. Our contribution includes... View Article
Sandia CSP researcher awarded 2021 SHPE STAR Award November 24, 2021 10:00 am Sandia National Laboratories’ concentrating solar power researcher Ken Armijo was recently awarded a 2021 SHPE Technical Achievement and Recognition (STAR)... View Article
Marine and Hydrokinetic Graduate Student Research Program accepting applications November 8, 2021 9:00 am Today is National STEM/STEAM Day! STEM/STEAM Day celebrates Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) and Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and... View Article