Structural Reuse by Design

Reusing wind turbine blades for building applications

Poster (2024)

Authors

J.J. Joustra Design for Sustainability - IDE
M.A. Popescu Applied Mechanics - CEG
Adrien Bousseau Inst. Natl. Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA)
Research Group
Design for Sustainability (IDE) (TU Delft)
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Published Date

2024

Language

English

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Faculty

Industrial Design Engineering

Department

Sustainable Design Engineering

Research Group

Design for Sustainability

Abstract

Construction industry needs large volumes of materials and has a large carbon footprint. And although wind energy is renewable, the blades are hard to recycle leading to material waste. Our goal is to form a virtuous loop between these sectors by reusing wind turbine blades as construction elements. However, designing and building new structures from parts of existing ones raises novel design challenges in terms of geometry, structural properties and performance, processing and assembly. [...]

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