[HTML][HTML] Recent developments in the protection of wind turbine blades against leading edge erosion: Materials solutions and predictive modelling

L Mishnaevsky Jr, A Tempelis, N Kuthe, P Mahajan - Renewable Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Leading edge erosion of wind turbine blades is the most often observed damage
mechanism of wind turbines, which causes also a lot of costs for maintenance and repair. In …

Recent Progress in the Development and Evaluation of Rain and Solid Particle Erosion Resistant Coatings for Leading Edge Protection of Wind Turbine Blades

P Bera, RV Lakshmi, SM Pathak, V Bonu… - Polymer …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
In recent years, wind energy has gained widespread attention and has been regarded as
one of the renewable energy resources for the future. However, surface erosion of wind …

[HTML][HTML] Numerical investigation of rain droplet impact on offshore wind turbine blades under different rainfall conditions: A parametric study

AS Verma, SGP Castro, Z Jiang, JJE Teuwen - Composite structures, 2020 - Elsevier
The leading edge of a fiber composite wind turbine blade (WTB) is prone to erosion
damages due to repeated rain droplet impact during its service life. Such damages are …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of offshore wind turbine blades coating thickness effect on leading edge protection system subject to rain erosion

QM Ansari, F Sánchez, L Mishnaevsky Jr, TM Young - Renewable Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
During operation, wind turbine blades are subjected to a wide range of environmental and
loading conditions and blade erosion can have a negative impact on performance and …

Evaluation of offshore wind turbine leading edge protection coating failure mode under rain erosion

QM Ansari, F Sánchez, L Doménech-Ballester… - Procedia Structural …, 2024 - Elsevier
Offshore wind turbine blades are exposed to a wide range of environmental and loading
conditions during operation. Rain droplet impact is one of the load cases that causes …

Engineering viscoelastic properties in polyurethane coatings to reduce erosion risks in wind turbine blades

I Ouachan, K Dyer, I Hamerton… - Society for the …, 2020 - research-information.bris.ac.uk
The dynamic mechanical response of a commercial prototype Leading Edge Protection
(LEP) coating based on polyurethane (PU) chemistry is analysed using Dynamic …

PD–DEM hybrid modeling of leading edge erosion in wind turbine blades under controlled impact scenarios

K Walayat, S Haeri, I Iqbal, Y Zhang - Computational Particle Mechanics, 2024 - Springer
This paper addresses the critical issue of leading edge erosion (LEE) on modern wind
turbine blades (WTBs) caused by solid particle impacts. LEE can harm the structural integrity …