Book chapter
Advanced Repairing of Composite Wind Turbine Blades and Advanced Manufacturing of Metal Gearbox Components
Advanced Wind Turbine Technology, pp.219-245
Springer International Publishing
05/08/2018
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-78166-2_8
Abstract
In recent years, size and capacity of wind turbines have increased significantly to meet the ambitious worldwide renewable energy targets. Extraordinarily high costs of manufacture and maintenance are one of the main issues to confine the expansion of the share of wind turbines in various renewables. To mitigate the high costs, advanced, and cost-effective repairing of wind turbine blades is critically needed to enable on-site repairing and restoration of damaged wind turbine blades. Moreover, advanced manufacturing technologies of hardened bearing steels are required to improve the functional performance of bearing and gearbox metal components. In this chapter, both conventional techniques and state-of-the-art repairing techniques for wind turbine blades (composites) are introduced firstly. Then, current machining process of hardened steels for bearing and gearbox components is summarized. Current achievements in novel machining process of hardened steel components are discussed for laser-assisted machining and cryogenic machining. The relationship between the desired surface integrity and manufacturing process conditions is explained through experimental results in literature. An overview is provided on the future applications of these advanced repairing technologies for wind turbine blades and advanced manufacturing technologies for wind turbine bearing and gearbox components.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Advanced Repairing of Composite Wind Turbine Blades and Advanced Manufacturing of Metal Gearbox Components
- Creators
- Ninggang Shen - University of IowaHongtao Ding - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Advanced Wind Turbine Technology, pp.219-245
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-78166-2_8
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing; Cham
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/08/2018
- Academic Unit
- Mechanical Engineering
- Record Identifier
- 9984195162802771
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