A Staged Approach to Erosion Analysis of Wind Turbine Blade Coatings

The current wind turbine leading-edge erosion research focuses on the end of incubation period and breakthrough when analysing mechanism. This work presented here shows benefits splitting describing progression into discrete stages. five identified stages are: (1) an undamaged, as-new, sample; (2) between undamaged sample incubation; (3) period; (4) breakthrough, (5) breakthrough. Mass loss, microscopy X-ray computed tomography were investigated at each From this analysis, it was observed that notable changes detected Stages 2 4, which are not usually considered separately. staged approach to rain testing offers a more thorough understanding how coating system ultimately fails due droplet impacts. It is during tomography, unobservable naked eye can be tracked using approach.