Static and fatigue performance of wind turbine blade epoxy adhesives

Abstract

In this research work, short-glass fiber modified and core-shell rubber particle modified epoxy adhesives used in the wind turbine rotor blade assembly are considered for developing four different hybrid adhesives. The adhesives are fabricated by two different methods, an automated machine mixing method (M1) at the facilities of Gurit (UK) Ltd and a manual mixing (M2) at CCLab/EPFL.