Method and system of manufacturing a wind turbine blade
AssigneeBlade Dynamics Limited
InventorPaul Hayden
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Abstract
A wind turbine blade including a shell structure defining a leading edge and a trailing edge, and an upwind shell and a downwind shell joined along at least one of the leading edge or the trailing edge. The shell structure includes an assembly of preformed parts processed into a collection of prefabricated laminates. The invention also includes a method of manufacturing a wind turbine blade, the method includes processing a number of preformed parts into a collection of prefabricated laminates and assembling the collection of prefabricated laminates to build a shell structure defining a leading edge and a trailing edge.
Claims20
A wind turbine blade comprising:
- a shell structure defining a leading edge and a trailing edge;
- and
- an upwind shell and a downwind shell joined along at least one of said leading edge and said trailing edge, wherein said shell structure comprises:
- a spar cap laminate made from a first plurality of spar cap preformed parts;
- a root laminate made from a second plurality of blade root preformed parts;
- and
- an aerodynamic fairing laminate made from a third plurality of aerodynamic fairing preformed parts.
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