The influence of the metal mesh to the attachment manner of CFRP wind turbine blades

Zixin Guo; Wanshui Yu; Zhiyang Fang; Minhao Zhang; Hongbo Li; Qingmin Li; Wah Hoon Siew

The influence of the metal mesh to the attachment manner of CFRP wind turbine blades

Zixin Guo, Wanshui Yu, Zhiyang Fang, Minhao Zhang, Hongbo Li, Qingmin Li, Wah Hoon Siew

Electronic And Electrical Engineering

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Abstract

Wind turbine blade with carbon fiber reinforced plastics (CFRP) beam has much better mechanism performance. However, it faces the severe problem of lightning protection due to the conductivity of CFRP. Metal mesh are installed on CFRP blades by many manufacturers in order to protect the main beam. The performance of the metal mesh was not fully tested with real blade tip. In this paper, the blade tip equipped with tip receptor and fully covered mesh are tested under both negative and positive switching impulses. The results show that the mesh has little influence on the attachment manner. The results between none-mesh GFRP and with-mesh CFRP blade is also compared.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The 11th Asia-Pacific International Conference on Lightning
Place of Publication	Piscataway, NJ
Publisher	IEEE
Number of pages	4
Publication status	Accepted/In press - 1 Apr 2019
Event	The 11th Asia-Pacific International Conference on Lightning - Hong Kong, Hong Kong Duration: 12 Jun 2019 → 14 Jun 2019 Conference number: 11

Conference

Conference	The 11th Asia-Pacific International Conference on Lightning
Abbreviated title	APL 2019
Country	Hong Kong
City	Hong Kong
Period	12/06/19 → 14/06/19

Keywords

lightning protection system
wind turbine blade
attachment process
CFRP

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Guo, Z., Yu, W., Fang, Z., Zhang, M., Li, H., Li, Q., & Siew, W. H. (Accepted/In press). The influence of the metal mesh to the attachment manner of CFRP wind turbine blades. In The 11th Asia-Pacific International Conference on Lightning IEEE.

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