International Symposium on

MATERIALS FOR WIND ENERGY

APPLICATIONS
Development, Modelling and
Future Directions
September 17-19, 2012, Beijing, China

Organized in the framework of Sino-Danish collaborative project High

reliability of large wind turbines, supported by Danish Council for Strategic
Research and Ministry of Science and Technology, China

Programme

Overview and Objectives

In order to reduce the fossil fuel dependency, many countries seek to expand the wind
energy sector. The efficiency and practical usability of wind energy technology depend on the
reliability and lifetime of wind turbines. Generally, a life span of a wind turbine is expected to
be at least 20-25 years without repair and with minimum maintenance. Yet, up to 20% of
wind turbine blades fail within first three years of functioning. In order to ensure the reliable
work of future wind turbines and necessary expansion of the wind energy sector, strong and
damage resistant wind turbine materials with improved properties are necessary. This will be
the subject of the Symposium.
The Symposium will bring together specialists in the area of composites and materials for
wind energy application from different countries, to discuss the development of the wind
turbine materials, their modelling, service properties, case studies and promising directions
of future development.
The Symposium is organized in the framework of Sino-Danish collaborative project High
reliability of large wind turbines via computational based enhancement of materials and
Danish Centre for Composite Structures and Materials for Wind Turbines (DCCSM),
supported by Danish Council for Strategic Research, and the Program of International S & T
Cooperation Experimental and computational studies on mechanics of advanced materials
for large-scale wind turbine blades supported by Ministry of Science and Technology, China.

Symposium Topics
The Symposium will cover the following main themes:
Materials for wind blades: composites, sandwich structures, processing, testing and
modelling and service properties of wind blade materials;
Reliability and strength of wind turbine blade materials, degradation processes,
fracture and fatigue and computational modelling;
Large and extra-large wind blades: specific requirements and development of
materials for large wind turbines;
Materials for small wind turbines and small scale wind energy in developing and
developed countries;
Future directions in the development of materials for wind turbines.

Organizing Committee
Jianyong Qiao (CUMTB, China)
Yaodong Jiang (CUMTB, China)
John Holmes (Beihang U, China)
Leon Mishnaevsky Jr. (Chairman, DTU, Denmark)
Bent F. Srensen (DTU, Denmark)
Hongwei Zhou (Chairman, CUMTB, China)
David Wood (Calgary U, Canada)

Programme September 17, 2012

9:00- 9:30

Registration

OPENING SESSION
9:30- 9:40

Opening, Leon Mishnaevsky Jr. (DTU, Denmark)

9:40- 9:50

Opening, Hongwei Zhou (CUMTB, China)

9:50-10:00

Welcome, Jianyong Qiao (President of CUTMB, China)

10:00-10:10

Welcome, Bent F. Srensen (DTU, Denmark)

10:10-10:40

Keynote Lecture: Rogier Nijssen (WMC, Netherlands) Long-term behaviour of wind

turbine rotor blade materials

10:40-11:10

Coffee

11:10-11:40

Keynote Lecture: Hui Li (Harbin Inst of Technology, China) High performance FRP
materials and performance monitoring for wind turbine blade

11:40-12:10

Keynote Lecture: Povl Brndsted (DTU, Denmark) Composites for wind turbine
blades: Requirements and testing

12:10-14:00

Lunch

SESSION: MATERIALS FOR WIND TURBINE BLADES

14:00-14:30

Keynote Lecture: Bent F. Srensen (DTU, Denmark) Development of wind

turbines blades: Challenges for the materials

14:30-14:50

Ying Li, J. Lu, (CityUHK, China) Light weight structural design of wind turbine tower
by using nano-materials

14:50-15:10

Peng-Cheng Ma (Xinjiang Technical Institute of Chem. & Phys, China) Prospects of

carbon nanotubes/polymer nanocomposites for wind blades

15:10-15:40

Coffee

15:40-16:10

Keynote Lecture: Ping Gao (HKUST, China) Polymer nanocomposite membranes

for green energy applications

16:10-16:30

Matias Sesserago (Calgary U, Canada) Multi-objective optimization of large wind

turbine blades

16:30-16:50

Yajun Yin (Tsinghua U, China) Multi-scale micro/nano composite structures in

dragonfly wing veins and their inspirations to wind blades

16:50-17:10

RamChandra Adhikari (Calgary U, Canada) Bamboo as a material for small wind

turbines

18:30-20:30

Dinner

Programme September 18, 2012

SESSION: MODELLING OF STRENGTH PROPERTIES OF WIND
BLADE COMPOSITES
9:30-10:00

Keynote Lecture: Wilfried Becker (TU Darmstadt, Germany) Stress concentrations

in composite structures and their assessment in regard of effective strength,

10:00-10:20

Bent F. Srensen (DTU, Denmark) Use of cohesive laws for describing fracture of
composites and adhesive joints

10:20-10:40

Chunan Tang (Dalian U Technology, China) Reality modeling on brittle failure of

composite materials

10:40-11:00

Coffee

11:00-11:30

Keynote Lecture: John W. Holmes and Chia-Chin Cheng (Beihang U, China)

Current and future trends in wind turbine blade design, materials and testing

11:30-11:50

Jingshen Wu (Hong Kong U Science and Technology, China) Fracture behaviour of

hybrid nanoreinforced composites

11:50-12:10

Hongwei Zhou (CUMTB, China) Fractional derivative approach to time-dependent

behavior of wind turbine rotor blade materials

12:30-14:00

Lunch

SESSION: EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS OF COMPOSITES

FOR WIND BLADES
14:00-14:20

Gui Lele (CUMTB, China) SEM-in-situ experimental investigations of damage

mechanisms in wind blade composites

14:20-14:40

Qingyuan Wang, Jiangfeng Dong (Sichuan U, China) Experimental research on steel

tube columns filled with RAC and strengthened with CFRP sheets under compressive
loading

14:40-15:00

Haiyang Yi (CUMTB, China) Experimental investigation on shear strength of nanoreinforced polymer composite

15:00-15:20

David Wood (Calgary U, Canada) Development of a copying router to manufacture

small wind turbine blades from timber

15:20-15:50

Coffee

SPECIAL SESSION ON SINO-EU COLLABORATION

15:50-16:20

Dawei Han (Bristol U, UK) EU-China Environmental Research Cooperation

SPRING Project

16:20-16:40

Leon Mishnaevsky Jr. (DTU, Denmark) Research collaboration between China and
EU: Possibilities of funding and our experiences

16:40-17:00

Hima Yang (Innovation Center Denmark, Shanghai, China) Denmark--your R&D

Centre for Wind Energy

18:30-20:30

Dinner

Programme September 19, 2012

SPECIAL SESSION: PRESENTATION OF BOOK BY DAVID
WOOD
09:30-10:00

David Wood (Calgary U, Canada) Materials and Blade Design for Small Wind
Turbines. Book presentation

SESSION: MATERIALS
MODELLING

FOR

WIND

TURBINE

BLADES:

10:00-10:20

Yao Zhenhan (Tsinghua U, China) Investigation on the simulation of composite

materials using fast boundary element methods

10:20-10:40

Ruidong Peng (CUMTB, China) Computational simulation of elastic behavior and

damage in nanoreinforced composites

10:40-11:00

Coffee

11:00-11:20

Qian Cheng (WMC, The Netherlands) Simulated fatigue degradations of

mechanical properties of unidirectional GFRP composite unit cells

11:20-11:40

Chunying Dong (Beijing U Technology, China) Boundary element method of

nanoscale inhomogeneities

11:40-12:00

Huaiwen Wang (Tianjin U, China) 3D Finite element modelling of damage

mechanisms in UD fiber reinforced composites for wind turbine applications

12:00-12:10

Closing Remarks, Hongwei Zhou (CUMTB, China)

12:10-12:20

Closing Remarks, Leon Mishnaevsky Jr (DTU, Denmark)

12:20-14:00

Lunch

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