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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 13, 2011
Steven Alan Kyriakides, Simpsonville, SC (US);
Scott Gabell Riddell, Greer, SC (US);
Alan Majors Walker, Simpsonville, SC (US);
Steven Alan Kyriakides, Simpsonville, SC (US);
Scott Gabell Riddell, Greer, SC (US);
Alan Majors Walker, Simpsonville, SC (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A method provides for assembling a wind turbine blade from at least two blade segments, with each of the blade segments having a pressure side shell member, a suction side shell member, internal support structure, and ends with joint sections that are offset span-wise from the pressure side shell member to the suction side shell member. The blade segments are aligned in an end-to-end orientation and moved into a mating configuration with relative movement that includes overlapping the respective joint sections of adjacent blade segments. The overlapped joint sections are subsequently moved into engagement with each other and joined along respective joint profiles at a chord-wise joint.