Solutions for Wind Turbine Blades
Design and manufacturing of efficient blades for wind turbines with best-in-class quality.
Ensure high-performance blade design, manufactured with the highest precision
Wind turbine blades are increasing in dimensions and facing new challenges such as weight, aero-elasticity, harsher onshore and offshore environments, and requirements for longer service lives. Hexagon provides solutions to design blades optimized for weight, aeroelasticity, efficiency, resilience and manufactured with highest precision while saving costs and time for production.
Materials engineering for wind turbine blades
Accelerate the material selection and development by enabling a better understanding of its mechanical behavior and its design impact on the performances. Different material microstructures and layups can be virtually defined and tested to efficiently screen and identify the material candidate with the required mechanical performance.
Materials Design
Material Modeling
Structural Analysis
CT Analysis
Products used
Structural simulation and design validation
Verify the design and accurately predict the structural behavior and life of the wind turbine blade, saving the need for costly physical prototypes and re-designs. Simulate structural behavior under numerous specific aeroelastic loading types and accurately predict overall structural life due to long-term fatigue.
Material Modeling
Structural Analysis
Products used
Optimize wind turbine noise performance
Reduce the time and effort required to ensure noise emission compliance of wind power blades by substituting physical with virtual tests. Predict wind turbine blade acoustic behavior at varying levels of fidelity for early stage design or late stage validation, enabling the optimization of blade shapes for noise reduction.
Computational Fluid Dynamics, Multiphysics Simulation
Simulation of the matrix curing process
Anticipate and remedy manufacturing issues, such as geometry deviations, before they arise by simulating the curing process. Multi-scale simulation of matrix curing using a thermo-visco-elastic model for the resin predicts residual stresses and resulting dimensional changes like spring-back, shrinkage and distortion.
Material Modeling
Structural Analysis
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Blades and mold inspection
Increase the efficiency of high-quality production with fast, flexible and accurate inspection on the shopfloor and on site. Inspect the surfaces of blades and molds using a large-volume scanner, in either manual or semi-automated modes.
Dimensional Analysis, Automated Inspection
Process Control & Analytics
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Inspection of flange flatness in milling machines
Reduce inspection times by up to 75% using contactless in-machine measuring, compared to measurements outside of the milling machine. Measure hundreds of projected points across a milling machine's flange, determining flange flatness by using specialist precision metrology software.
Dimensional Analysis
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