Xiao Chen / Researcher / DTU Wind Energy Introduction To make wind energy more competitive with traditional fossil fuels, wind turbines should operate as continuously as possible with minimal unscheduled downtime during their intended design lifetime. One of the main challenges to achieving this goal is component failure, which can lead to considerably long stoppages…

The facility in Denmark will have three test stands capable of delivering static deflection testing and dynamic (directly coupled and mass resonant excitation) testing of wind turbine blades measuring 15, 25, and 45-m long, and the flexibility to test other large structures.