1. FULL 3D SIMULATION OF COMPOSITE MATERIALS USING PRIMAL – MIXED FEA
Dubravka Mijuca

2. Wind turbine rotor blade design
Vesta turbine design
The blade is of glass fibre/epoxy matrix pre-pregs
The gear box is made of fibre/epoxy
The adhesive is made of epoxy
External load – gravitational, CFD

3. Wind turbine rotor blade design -Failure assessment

4. Wind turbine rotor blade design – FE results
Delamination
Debonding
Potential Split Crack

5. Wind turbine rotor blade design -Pressure load from CFD - animation
Model without gear box
Model with gear box

6. Wind turbine rotor blade design – Full multiscale analysis - animation
18789 dof per displacement vector and stress tensor

7. Embedded fibre optic sensor in PVB/Aramid Composite
Height of the specimen is 7.3mm
Diameter the optical fiber is 0.5mm

8. Embedded fibre optic sensor in PVB/Aramid Composite

9. Embedded fibre optic sensor in PVB/Aramid Composite