OPTIMAT BLADES- OPTIMAL AND RELIABLE USEOF COMPOSITE MATERIALS FOR WIND TURBINES -

摘要

Wind turbine technology provides maturing means of renewable energy production.Maintaining the wind turbine blades’ reliability in a demanding environment, and for ever increasingblade sizes, is an important challenge. For an adequate design, reliable and accurate design rules anddetailed knowledge of the material behavior under various circumstances and load scenarios must beavailable. The OPTIMAT project, which started in January 2002, aims to help provide thisknowledge. This paper introduces and outlines the OPTIMAT project. It describes the rationalebehind the project, the organization of the most important tasks and it indicates the foreseen approachto arrive at the project’s ambitious goals.