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Bul. Inst. Polit. Iaşi, t. LVI (LX), f. 2, 2010 183<br />

The main construction elements of a turbine blade are shown in Fig. 2. The<br />

blades are made of a mixture of fiberglass and composite materials. They are<br />

designed to capture wind energy and transfer it to the turbine rotor and their<br />

profile is the result of complex aerodynamic studies, on which turbine<br />

efficiency is dependant. The development in size of the blades also caused an<br />

increase in the size of the rotor.<br />

Damage to blades may occur in different ways. The most common types of<br />

damage is listed below [5] and a sketch of these is available in Fig. 3.<br />

Typical damage description:<br />

1. Damage formation and growth in the adhesive layer joining the skin and<br />

the main spar flanges (skin/adhesive debonding and/or main<br />

spar/adhesive layer debonding);<br />

2. Damage formation and growth in the adhesive layer joining the up and<br />

downwind skins along leading and/or trailing edges (adhesive joint<br />

failure between skins);<br />

3. Damage formation and growth at the interface between face and core in<br />

sandwich panels in skins and main spar web (sandwich panel face/core<br />

debonding);<br />

4. Internal damage formation and growth in laminates in skin and/or main<br />

spar flanges, under a tensile or compression load (delamination driven<br />

by a tensional or a buckling load);<br />

5. Splitting and fracture of separate fibres in laminates of the skin and main<br />

spar (fibre failure in tension; laminate failure in compression);<br />

6. Buckling of the skin due to damage formation and growth in the bond<br />

between skin and main spar under compressive load (skin/adhesive<br />

debonding induced by buckling, a specific type 1 case);<br />

7. Formation and growth of cracks in the gel-coat; debonding of the gel-coat<br />

from the skin (gel-coat cracking and gel-coat/skin debonding).<br />

Fig. 2 – Components blade.

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