Innovative Offshore Vertical-Axis Wind Turbine Rotors December 22, 2021 12:04 pm This project seeks to advance large offshore vertical-axis wind turbine (VAWT) rotor technology from concept to lab-scale prototype stage through... View Article
Radar Friendly Blades December 22, 2021 11:59 am Some wind farms have the potential to cause interference with the normal operation of radar systems used for security, weather... View Article
Wind Publications December 22, 2021 11:31 am Innovative Vertical Axis Wind Turbine Brandon L. Ennis, D. Todd Griffith. System Levelized Cost of Energy Analysis for Floating Offshore... View Article
About the Facility December 22, 2021 10:24 am Test-Bed Wind Turbines Allow Facility Flexibility While Providing Reliable Data in Many Regimes SWiFT will initially consist of three research-scale... View Article
Blade Materials and Substructures Testing December 22, 2021 9:01 am Wind turbine blades are subjected to a higher number of complex loading cycles not experienced in other applications of composite... View Article
Reliability, O&M, Standards Development December 22, 2021 9:00 am Building on a foundation of analysis capabilities, methods, and industry partnerships established in the Continuous Reliability Enhancement for Wind (CREW)... View Article
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