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SUMMARY:CESS seminar series - Advanced Testing and Digital Twinning of Lar
 ge-scale Thin-walled Composite Structures
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Xiao Chen\, Technical University of Denmark\nAbstract\n
 With a length of over 120 m\, composite wind turbine blades are among the 
 largest single components in the world which are primarily made of fiber p
 olymer composite materials. Working in harsh environments and under comple
 x loading\, such large-scale\, thin-walled composite structures must maint
 ain their structural integrity and reliability over 25 years service life 
 with minimum maintenance. This challenges the wind energy industry in many
  ways as the time to market is crucial and yet the prototype certification
  is extremely expensive and time-consuming. In this seminar\, the latest r
 esearch and innovation in advanced structural testing and high-performance
  modeling techniques of large-scale thin-walled composite blade structures
  will be presented. Particular focus will be placed on full-scale and subc
 omponent structural testing under realistic static and fatigue loads\, nov
 el computer-vision-based damage inspection and structural health monitorin
 g techniques\, and advanced finite element modeling techniques that can pr
 edict complex fracture and damage phenomena in full-scale wind turbine bla
 de structures and their critical structural details – not only accuratel
 y but also efficiently. The simulation efficiency and calculation speed ar
 e greatly escalated to an unparalleled level by several recently developed
  key enabling technologies which will achieve high-fidelity and high-speed
  digital twinning of such large-scale thin-walled composite structures.\n\
 nShort bio\nDr. Chen is Associate Professor at Department of Wind and Ener
 gy Systems at Technical University of Denmark (DTU). He received his docto
 ral degree in structural engineering in 2011 from Nagoya University in Jap
 an and worked as a postdoctoral research fellow in the National Wind Energ
 y Center at the University of Houston\, Texas\, USA. From 2013\, he was an
  assistant professor and then associate professor at the Chinese Academy o
 f Sciences in Beijing before he joined DTU in 2017\, where he is the team 
 leader of composite structures. Dr. Chen is a member of several internatio
 nal scientific and technical committees such as the International Ship and
  Offshore Structures Congress\, Villum Center for Advanced Structural and 
 Material Testing\, International Conference on Composite Structures\, and 
 International Conference on Mechanics of Composites. He is the Principe In
 vestigator of several research projects funded by Innovation Fond of Denma
 rk\, the Danish Energy Agency\, the European Commission\, The Villum Found
 ation\, Danish Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Program and
  the National Science Foundation of China. He has published more than 30 r
 esearch articles in the field of advanced testing and high-performance mod
 eling of composite blades with a focus on structural damage\, fracture and
  digitalization using Industry 4.0 technologies.\n 
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