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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2015
Blade Dynamics Limited, Cowes, Isle of Wight, GB;
Paul Hayden, New Orleans, LA (US);
Joaquin Gutierrez, New Orleans, LA (US);
BLADE DYNAMICS LIMITED, Isle of Wright, GB;
Abstract
A wind turbine blade comprising a fairing with a rigid structural component () which forms the majority of the aerodynamic profile and a non-actively controllable elastically deformable trailing edge component () mounted on the structural component to complete the aerodynamic profile. The trailing edge component () is formed from a material having an elastic modulus in the range of 0.5 to 2.5 GPa such it will elastically buckle when loading on the trailing edge component exceeds a predetermined threshold. The structural component () comprises a unidirectional reinforcing layer adjacent to the trailing edge component with at least one layer of unidirectional fibers () extending in a substantially spanwise direction.