A Staged Approach to Erosion Analysis of Wind Turbine Blade Coatings
| Autor: | Grant Leishman, Kirsten Dyer, David Nash, Cameron Mackie, Liu Yang |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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X-ray computed tomography
Materials science medicine.diagnostic_test Turbine blade staged analysis Computed tomography Surfaces and Interfaces coatings Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) Turbine leading-edge erosion Surfaces Coatings and Films law.invention law Coating system blades Materials Chemistry Erosion medicine wind energy microscopy Geotechnical engineering TJ TA1-2040 |
| Zdroj: | Coatings, Vol 11, Iss 681, p 681 (2021) Coatings Volume 11 Issue 6 |
| ISSN: | 2079-6412 |
| Popis: | The current wind turbine leading-edge erosion research focuses on the end of the incubation period and breakthrough when analysing the erosion mechanism. This work presented here shows the benefits of splitting and describing leading-edge erosion progression into discrete stages. The five identified stages are: (1) an undamaged, as-new, sample (2) between the undamaged sample and end of incubation (3) the end of incubation period (4) between the end of incubation and breakthrough, and (5) breakthrough. Mass loss, microscopy and X-ray computed tomography were investigated at each of the five stages. From this analysis, it was observed that notable changes were detected at Stages 2 and 4, which are not usually considered separately. The staged approach to rain erosion testing offers a more thorough understanding of how the coating system changes and ultimately fails due to rain droplet impacts. It is observed that during microscopy and X-ray computed tomography, changes unobservable to the naked eye can be tracked using the staged approach. |
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