It has been quite an exciting journey at Reliablade. To take a moment to look back, we present an in-depth interview with Kim Branner, project coordinator of Reliablade and Head of Section at DTU Wind and Energy Systems.
“We created a vision for a digital twin of wind turbine blades and made the first drawing. Having this vision that in the future digital twins of wind turbine blades will be something that come along with the physical blade, so the digital twin of the blade follows what happens to the physical blade during its lifetime; it is sort of becoming a movement that more people want to join in other countries.”
The Danish-German joint research project ReliaBlade develops and demonstrates techniques to create unique Digital Twin for wind turbine blades with defects and imperfections. The digital twin can track not only the current state of the blade but also predict the future state – as damages initiate and grow through its entire life cycle.
We thank EUDP – Det Energiteknologiske Udviklings- og Demonstrationsprogram for their support.
The project partners are: DTU Wind and Energy Systems, DTU Compute, Blaest A/S, CEKO Sensors ApS , FORCE Technology, Fraunhofer-Institut für Windenergiesysteme, IBM, Leibniz Universität Hannover , LM Wind Power Olsen Wings A/S, Siemens Digital Industries Software, Siemens Gamesa, Vestas, and Zebicon a/s..
Check all the details of the project on our website:
https://www.reliablade.com