Big Area Additive Manufacturing Application in Wind Turbine Molds

Parthiv Kurup; Dale Jenne; Brian Post; Bradley Richardson; Randall Lind; Lonnie Love; Peter Lloyd; Vlastimil Kunc; Breanna Rhyne; Alex Roschli; Jim Hannan; Steve Nolet; Kevin Veloso; Timothy Remo

Big Area Additive Manufacturing Application in Wind Turbine Molds

Parthiv Kurup, Dale Jenne, Brian Post, Bradley Richardson, Randall Lind, Lonnie Love, Peter Lloyd, Vlastimil Kunc, Breanna Rhyne, Alex Roschli, Jim Hannan, Steve Nolet, Kevin Veloso, Timothy Remo

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Abstract

Tooling is a primary target for current additive manufacturing (AM), or 3D printing, technology because of its rapid prototyping capabilities. Molds of many sizes and shapes have been produced for a variety of industries. However, large tooling remained out of reach until the development of large-scale composite AM manufacturing processes like the Big Area Additive Manufacturing (BAAM) system. The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) worked with TPI Composites to use the BAAM system to fabricate a wind turbine blade mold. The fabricated wind turbine blade mold was produced in 16 additively manufactured sections, was 13 meters long, had heating channels integrated into the design, and was mounted into a steel frame post fabrication. This research effort serves as a case study to examine the technological impacts of AM on wind turbine blade tooling and evaluate the efficacy of this approach in utility scale wind turbine manufacturing.

Original language	American English
Pages	2430-2446
Number of pages	17
State	Published - 2017
Event	28th Annual International Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium - An Additive Manufacturing Conference, SFF 2017 - Austin, United States Duration: 7 Aug 2017 → 9 Aug 2017

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Conference	28th Annual International Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium - An Additive Manufacturing Conference, SFF 2017
Country/Territory	United States
City	Austin
Period	7/08/17 → 9/08/17

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Copyright © SFF 2017.All rights reserved.

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NREL/CP-6A20-74522

Keywords

3D printing
additive manufacturing
molds
wind turbines

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Kurup, P., Jenne, D., Post, B., Richardson, B., Lind, R., Love, L., Lloyd, P., Kunc, V., Rhyne, B., Roschli, A., Hannan, J., Nolet, S., Veloso, K., & Remo, T. (2017). Big Area Additive Manufacturing Application in Wind Turbine Molds. 2430-2446. Paper presented at 28th Annual International Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium - An Additive Manufacturing Conference, SFF 2017, Austin, United States. https://sffsymposium.engr.utexas.edu/sites/default/files/2017/Manuscripts/BigAreaAdditiveManufacturingApplicationinWin.pdf

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