Advances in Wind Turbine Blade Design and Materials

Part I: Wind turbine blade design: challenges and developments<br>1. Introduction to wind turbine blade design <br>2. Loads on wind turbine blades<br>3. Aerodynamic design of wind turbine rotors<br>4. Aerodynamic characteristics of wind turbine blade airfoils<br>5. Aeroelastic design of wind turbine blades<br><br>Part II: Fatigue behaviour of composite wind turbine blades<br>6. Fatigue as a design driver for composite wind turbine blades<br>7. Effects of resin and reinforcement variations on fatigue resistance of wind turbine blades<br>8. Fatigue life prediction of wind turbine blade composite materials<br>9. Micromechanical modelling of wind turbine blade materials<br>10. Probabilistic design of wind turbine blades<br><br>Part III: Advances in wind turbine blade materials, development and testing<br>11. Biobased composites: materials, properties and potential applications as wind turbine blade materials<br>12. Surface protection and coatings for wind turbine rotor blades<br>13. Design, manufacture and testing of small wind turbine blades<br>14. Wind turbine blade structural performance testing