...Ryoichi S. Amano; Giovanni Lewinski; Rulin Shen Self-healing wind turbine blades can reduce costs associated with maintenance, repair, and energy compensation. Self-healing is the ability to sustain and recover from damage autonomously. We discuss the efforts made to optimize the self-healing...

..., the use of an auxetic core instead of a honeycomb core is proposed for use in wind turbine blades to reduce structural vibrations. Different auxetic topologies are investigated and compared with the half-power method, and their vibration and damping behavior is analyzed in comparison with the conventional...

...Rulin Shen; Meijian Ren; Ryoichi S. Amano; Mingjun Long; Yanling Gong Self-healing is a promising way to solve the difficulty in wind turbine blades repair, yet the embedded healing agent may have a disadvantage because of being exposed to outdoor for a long time. Pressurized delivery...

...Rulin Shen; Ryoichi S. Amano; Giovanni Lewinski Hollows produced by wires and borosilicate tubes are two significant approaches for the storage and transport of healing agent for self-healing wind turbine blades. To compare the performance for the two approaches, sheet samples and prototype blades...

...Rulin Shen; Ryoichi S. Amano; Giovanni Lewinski; Arun Kumar Koralagundi Matt Self-healing wind turbine blades offer a substantial offset for costly blade repairs and failures. We discuss the efforts made to optimize the self-healing properties of wind turbine blades and provide a new system...