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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 17, 2016
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Andreas Herrig, Garching bei München, DE;
Dominic Alexander von Terzi, Forstern, DE;
Shivaram Ac, Bangalore, IN;
Vidyashankar Ramasastry Buravalla, Bangalore, IN;
Norman Arnold Turnquist, Carlisle, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A wind turbine blade includes a first blade segment and a second blade segment extending in opposite directions from a chord-wise joint. Each of the blade segments having a pressure side shell member, a suction side shell member. The blade further including a coupling component extending spanwise and structurally connecting the first blade segment and the second blade segment. A thermal actuation component is coupled to the coupling component and passively actuated in response to a change in thermal conditions so as to provide for aeroelastic tailoring and pitch control to the wind turbine blade.