Method of repairing wind turbine blade
AssigneeMitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
InventorKeisuke Ota
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Abstract
Provided is a method of repairing damage on a wind turbine blade with a simple method. The method of repairing a wind turbine blade is a method of repairing a wind turbine blade for a damage portion caused by a lightning strike, including the steps of: generating in advance a repairing member molded in a predetermined flat plate shape and solidified; determining a damage determination range defined in advance for the damage portion; and bonding the repairing member when a result of inspecting the wind turbine blade indicates that the damage portion is within the damage determination range. The step of generating the repairing member may include stacking glass fiber materials to generate the repairing member.
Claims14
A method of repairing a wind turbine blade for a damage portion caused by a lightning strike, the method comprising the steps of:
- based on inspection results of the wind turbine blade, determining whether or not the damage portion has a size less than a criterion;
- when the size is less than the criterion, sanding and removing a circular region of a coating layer of the wind turbine blade to expose a glass fiber reinforced plastics (GFRP) layer of the wind turbine blade under the circular region of the coating layer of the wind turbine blade, the exposed glass fiber reinforced plastics layer encompassing the damage portion;
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- bonding onto the exposed glass fiber reinforced plastics layer a repairing member prefabricated and procured such that stacked glass fiber materials embedded in the repairing member is arranged outside an outer skin of the wind turbine blade, the repairing member having a circular shape corresponding to the circular region,
- wherein the exposed glass fiber reinforced plastics layer encompassing the damage portion is covered by the stacked glass fiber materials of the repairing member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.