Wind Turbine Blade Bridge
Slides

Paul Leahy, SFI Stokes Lecturer in Wind Energy Engineering University College Cork, Ireland (UCC)

Kieran Ruane, Lecturer, Munster Technological University
Etienne cheynet, university of Bergen
The blades, the hub, and the main shaft of a wind turbine harness the kinetic energy of the wind and convert it into rotational mechanical energy. The speed of this rotation is too slow to drive the generator efficiently, so a gearbox converts the high-torque and low-speed mechanical energy of the main shaft into the…