Date of download: 10/22/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Design and Fatigue Performance of Large Utility-Scale Wind Turbine Blades J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2013;135(3):031019-031019-11. doi:10.1115/1.4023926 Figure Legend: Weibull wind distribution of the K13 Deep Water Site [16]

Date of download: 10/22/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Design and Fatigue Performance of Large Utility-Scale Wind Turbine Blades J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2013;135(3):031019-031019-11. doi:10.1115/1.4023926 Figure Legend: Blade cross-section seen from the root

Date of download: 10/22/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Design and Fatigue Performance of Large Utility-Scale Wind Turbine Blades J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2013;135(3):031019-031019-11. doi:10.1115/1.4023926 Figure Legend: Stress time series at low pressure side of a blade at Vhub = 15 m/s and I15 = 0.16 (class B turbulence)

Date of download: 10/22/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Design and Fatigue Performance of Large Utility-Scale Wind Turbine Blades J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2013;135(3):031019-031019-11. doi:10.1115/1.4023926 Figure Legend: 95/95 S-N data for material QQ1

Date of download: 10/22/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Design and Fatigue Performance of Large Utility-Scale Wind Turbine Blades J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2013;135(3):031019-031019-11. doi:10.1115/1.4023926 Figure Legend: CLD of the QQ1 material. The lines are constructed with the method outlined in this paper.

Date of download: 10/22/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Design and Fatigue Performance of Large Utility-Scale Wind Turbine Blades J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2013;135(3):031019-031019-11. doi:10.1115/1.4023926 Figure Legend: GG2 and GH4 CLDs constructed with 95/95 strain S-N model

Date of download: 10/22/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Design and Fatigue Performance of Large Utility-Scale Wind Turbine Blades J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2013;135(3):031019-031019-11. doi:10.1115/1.4023926 Figure Legend: Location of fatigue damage of the 10 MW NOWITECH baseline blade design, shown as shaded areas. The darker shades means more fatigue damage. The upper blade shows tensile damage at pressure side for the GG2 material. The lower blade shows compressive damage at suction side for the GH4 material. The compressive damage is up-scaled to visualize damage locations.

Date of download: 10/22/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Design and Fatigue Performance of Large Utility-Scale Wind Turbine Blades J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2013;135(3):031019-031019-11. doi:10.1115/1.4023926 Figure Legend: Cross-sectional location of tensile damage (left) for GG2 and compressive damage (right) for GH4. Note that the bar lengths are considerably up-scaled in the right figure to visualize the damage.

Date of download: 10/22/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Design and Fatigue Performance of Large Utility-Scale Wind Turbine Blades J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2013;135(3):031019-031019-11. doi:10.1115/1.4023926 Figure Legend: Span-wise distributions of blade stiffness and annual mean bending moments

Date of download: 10/22/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Design and Fatigue Performance of Large Utility-Scale Wind Turbine Blades J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2013;135(3):031019-031019-11. doi:10.1115/1.4023926 Figure Legend: Comparison of the tailored GG2 CLD and a shifted linear CLD based on the GL 2010 standard

Date of download: 10/22/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Design and Fatigue Performance of Large Utility-Scale Wind Turbine Blades J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2013;135(3):031019-031019-11. doi:10.1115/1.4023926 Figure Legend: Fatigue damage locations on the baseline blade estimated using a GL 2010 shifted linear CLD

Date of download: 10/22/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Design and Fatigue Performance of Large Utility-Scale Wind Turbine Blades J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2013;135(3):031019-031019-11. doi:10.1115/1.4023926 Figure Legend: QQ1 CLDs constructed with S-N data for six R values versus three R-values

Date of download: 10/22/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Design and Fatigue Performance of Large Utility-Scale Wind Turbine Blades J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2013;135(3):031019-031019-11. doi:10.1115/1.4023926 Figure Legend: Weight trends of commercial wind turbine blades together with NOWITECH blade designs

Date of download: 10/22/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Design and Fatigue Performance of Large Utility-Scale Wind Turbine Blades J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2013;135(3):031019-031019-11. doi:10.1115/1.4023926 Figure Legend: GG2 CLD and WS* CLD (constructed with WindStrand HiPer-texTMR = 0.1 S-N data for T-T and T-C regions and QQ1 R = 10 S-N data for C-C)