The largest turbine is GE''s Haliade-X offshore wind turbine, with blades 351 feet long (107 meters) – about the same length as a football field. When wind flows across the blade, the air pressure on one side of the blade decreases. The
A typical drag coefficient for wind turbine blades is 0.04; compare this to a well-designed automobile with a drag coefficient of 0.30. Even though the drag coefficient for a blade is fairly constant, as the wind speed increases, the
Blades in strong wind conditions are prone to various failures and damage that is due to the action of random variable amplitude loads. In this study, we analyze the failure of 1.5 MW horizontal axis wind turbine blades.
