Understanding evolution of fatigue damage in GFRP (Extension of Project 464)
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- Published: Wednesday, 16 November 2016 09:35
Ying Wang
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Scientific Case
This project is part of the MXIF-DTU collaboration within the CINEMA project.
Wind turbine blades are subjected to a very high number of load cycles (108-109) during their life-time of around 20-30 years. Therefore, material fatigue is one of the main limiting factors against designing longer blades. Despite that glass fibres show very limited sensitivity to fatigue loading, uni-directional glass fibre reinforced polymer composite (GFRP) used in the wind turbine blade industry is prone to fail in fatigue.
Previous scans demonstrated the capability of staining in enhancing fatigue damage detection in GFRP. A systematic ex-situ study of fatigue damage evolution will be carried out – fatigue test of GFRP sample will be interrupted for staining and CT imaging at multiple stages through its fatigue life. A multiscale imaging strategy will be used – full-scan on Heliscan and ROI-scan on Versa.
Wind turbine blades are subjected to a very high number of load cycles (108-109) during their life-time of around 20-30 years. Therefore, material fatigue is one of the main limiting factors against designing longer blades. Despite that glass fibres show very limited sensitivity to fatigue loading, uni-directional glass fibre reinforced polymer composite (GFRP) used in the wind turbine blade industry is prone to fail in fatigue.
Previous scans demonstrated the capability of staining in enhancing fatigue damage detection in GFRP. A systematic ex-situ study of fatigue damage evolution will be carried out – fatigue test of GFRP sample will be interrupted for staining and CT imaging at multiple stages through its fatigue life. A multiscale imaging strategy will be used – full-scan on Heliscan and ROI-scan on Versa.
Composites
Experiment Design
Xradia VersaXCT
15
Not Required
15
Sample & Safety
Glass fibre/polyester composite
3
Low Hazard