Decommissioning end-of-life wind turbine blades (EoL-WTBs) presents significant waste
management challenges. This comprehensive review explores the recycling of EoL-WTBs …

Various scenarios of end-of-life management of wind turbine blades are reviewed.“Reactive”
strategies, designed to deal with already available, ageing turbines, installed in the 2000s …

A fiber-reinforced composite wind turbine blade (WTB) is exposed to numerous impact
threats during its service life causing damages that can be detrimental to its structural …

A review of the root causes and mechanisms of damage and failure to wind turbine blades is
presented in this paper. In particular, the mechanisms of leading edge erosion, adhesive …

With global warming and the depletion of fossil energy sources, renewable energy is
gradually replacing non-renewable energy as the main energy in the future. As one of the …

Wind turbine structures have become increasingly popular due to global trends in
renewable energy policies. However, more than 3800 failures are reported annually, and …

Blades are critical components in wind turbines (WTs) for power generation, and condition
monitoring (CM) of WT blades is a crucial and challenging issue under operating conditions …

Blades are one of the most important components, in terms of capital and operational costs,
of wind turbines. The experienced acquired by the industry in the latest decades has shown …

Rain erosion of turbine blades causes loss of production and expensive repairs in the wind
energy sector. There is a common consensus, that the size of impacting rain drops has a …

Leading edge erosion (LEE) of wind turbine blades causes decreased aerodynamic
performance leading to lower power production and revenue and increased operations and …