Laboratory Wind Turbine Blade Static Testing of the Sandia National Rotor Testbed 13-Meter Wind Turbine Blade

Technical Report · Wed Sep 29 00:00:00 EDT 2021

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1823763· OSTI ID:1823763

Gage, Bill ^[1]; Beach, Ryan  ^[1]; Hughes, Scott  ^[1]

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1. National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

The Sandia National Laboratories (SNL or Sandia) National Rotor Testbed (NRT) blade is a new design for experimental research and development at the Sandia Scaled Wind Farm Technology (SWiFT) facility, located at Texas Tech University’s National Wind Institute Research Center in Lubbock, TX. Four NRT blades were manufactured, with three blades for operation at the SWiFT facility, and one blade intended for structural validation. A series of structural validation tests including property testing, static strength testing, and fatigue testing were performed at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). This report documents the static and fatigue load cases applied to the NRT blade.

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Wind Energy Technologies Office
• DOE Contract Number: AC36-08GO28308
• OSTI ID: 1823763
• Report Number(s): NREL-TP-5000-79416; MainId:33642; UUID:1bc60aee-3fb2-4d7c-96ab-a70ca789ff38; MainAdminID:25735
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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national rotor testbed
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static fatigue
structural validation
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