Damage mitigation techniques in wind turbine blades: A review

What is it about?

Wind blades are major structural elements of wind turbines, but they are prone to damage like any other composite component. Blade damage can cause sudden structural failure and the associated costs to repair them is high. Primary causes of the wind blade damage are described in this article. Early detection and mitigation techniques are required to avoid or reduce damage in costly wind turbine blades. This paper provides an extensive review of viable solutions and approaches for damage mitigation in wind turbine blades.

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Why is it important?

This extensive review article lists and explains the causation of damage in expensive wind blades as well as thorough discussion about their mitigation techniques.

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