WIND TURBINE ROTOR BLADE WITH TRAILING EDGE EXTENSION AND METHOD OF ATTACHMENT

摘要

A wind turbine rotor blade assernbly includes a rotor blade having a pres sure side, a suction side, a leading edge, and a trailing edge extending in a generally span wise direction between a tip and a root. An edge extension is attached along the trailing edge and includes a first strip member having a span-wise attachment section attached to pressure side, and a second strip member having a span-wise attachment section attached to the suction side. Each of the first and second strip members has an outboard edge and an extension section that projects chord-wise beyond the trailing edge. The extension sections are adhesively attached to each other outboard of the trailing edge along a span-wise length of the first and second strip members and define an adhesively bonded closure edge of the edge extension. A method is also provided for forming an edge extension on a wind turbine rotor blade.