Abstract
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.
Original language | American English |
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Number of pages | 88 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2021 |
NREL Publication Number
- NREL/TP-5000-79416
Keywords
- national rotor testbed
- NRT
- static fatigue
- structural validation
- wind turbine blade