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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2012
Eric Morgan Jacobsen, Greenville, SC (US);
Bruce Clark Busbey, Greer, SC (US);
Qi Zhu, Simpsonville, SC (US);
Scott Gabell Riddell, Greer, SC (US);
Juergen Esser, Bevergem, DE;
Jan Willem Bakhuis, Nijverdal, NL;
Pradeepa Nagabhushana, Bangalore, IN;
Eric Morgan Jacobsen, Greenville, SC (US);
Bruce Clark Busbey, Greer, SC (US);
Qi Zhu, Simpsonville, SC (US);
Scott Gabell Riddell, Greer, SC (US);
Juergen Esser, Bevergem, DE;
Jan Willem Bakhuis, Nijverdal, NL;
Pradeepa Nagabhushana, Bangalore, IN;
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A rotor blade assembly for a wind turbine has a rotor blade. A strip-member blade accessory is mounted to one of the rotor blade surfaces that stretches under normal operating conditions of the wind turbine. The blade accessory has a base portion. An attachment layer connects the base portion to the rotor blade surface and has a lower shear modulus than the base portion to allow for shear slippage between the base portion and the underlying rotor blade surface.