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Daniel L. Laird
Researcher at Sandia National Laboratories
Publications - 20
Citations - 1064
Daniel L. Laird is an academic researcher from Sandia National Laboratories. The author has contributed to research in topics: Turbine blade & Finite element method. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 20 publications receiving 747 citations. Previous affiliations of Daniel L. Laird include National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
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Grand challenges in the science of wind energy
Paul S. Veers,Katherine Dykes,Eric Lantz,Stephan Barth,Carlo L. Bottasso,Ola Carlson,Andrew Clifton,Johney B. Green,Peter F. Green,Hannele Holttinen,Daniel L. Laird,Ville Lehtomäki,Julie K. Lundquist,Julie K. Lundquist,James F. Manwell,Melinda Marquis,Charles Meneveau,Patrick Moriarty,Xabier Munduate,Michael Muskulus,Jonathan W. Naughton,Lucy Y. Pao,Joshua Paquette,Joachim Peinke,Amy Robertson,Javier Sanz Rodrigo,Anna Maria Sempreviva,J. Charles Smith,Aidan Tuohy,Ryan Wiser +29 more
TL;DR: This Review explores grand challenges in wind energy research that must be addressed to enable wind energy to supply one-third to one-half, or even more, of the world’s electricity needs.
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Trends in the Design, Manufacture and Evaluation of Wind Turbine Blades
Paul S. Veers,Thomas D. Ashwill,Herbert J. Sutherland,Daniel L. Laird,Don W. Lobitz,Dayton A. Griffin,John F. Mandell,Walter Musial,Kevin L. Jackson,Michael D. Zuteck,Antonio Miravete,Stephen W. Tsai,James L. Richmond +12 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a review of wind turbine blade design trends and design drivers, as well as the ways these design drivers have changed, and some possible directions for future blade design options are presented, namely new planforms, aerofoils and aeroelastic tailoring.
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Extraction of equivalent beam properties from blade models
David J. Malcolm,Daniel L. Laird +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a method is presented for extracting the equivalent beam properties from a finite element model of a wind turbine blade so that full aeroelastic models can be constructed more reliably.
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Finite Element Modeling of Wind Turbine Blades
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the pitfalls associated with offset nodes for a layered shell element, the issues associated with modeling a wind turbine blade with mid-thickness shells, and a discussion of the feasibility of migrating from shell elements to either layered or non-layered solid (brick) elements.
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Analysis of SNL/MSU/DOE fatigue database trends for wind turbine blade materials.
John F. Mandell,Thomas D. Ashwill,Timothy J. Wilson,Aaron Sears,Pancasatya Agastra,Daniel L. Laird,Daniel D. Samborsky +6 more
TL;DR: The Fatigue of Composite Materials for Wind Turbine Blades (FOMF) program as mentioned in this paper has been a major focus of research and testing of a broad range of structural laminate materials of interest to blade structures.