Experimental blade research: Structural mechanisms in current and future large blades under combined loading

This project is motivated by the vision of being able to understand and model complex structural mechanisms and failure in large composite structures such as current and future wind turbine blades. The long term vision with the research is to obtain the necessary knowledge and develop reliable methods such that future blades can be manufactured cheaper, be more aerodynamic efficient and have higher safety against unexpected incidents (damage tolerant design), than current design methods allow.