Almost 1000 participants, almost 800 presentations. It was the biggest WESC ever. IWES was there again, this time with 6 team members, which was almost the entire team. We presented our research to the community in the following 7 presentations:
- Wasay Khan: A deep learning and computer vision framework for the analysis of adhesive composite in wind energy blades
- Claudio Balzani: Extraction of initial digital twin representations from wind turbine rotor blades via invertible neural networks
- Felix Prigge: Stochastic FEM: Material uncertainties in rotor blade panel buckling simulations
- Can Muyan: The effect of modeling debonding failure on the progressive damage analysis of a wind turbine blade
- Claudio Balzani: On the characterization of a short fiber-reinforced adhesive used in wind turbine rotor blades
- Yixing Wang: Prediction of residual stresses in thick composite laminates considering unsteady temperature distributions during curing
- Julia Gebauer: A comparison of cross-sectional deformations in a rotor blade for different load distributions
We had many constructive discussions and definitely learned something. Besides the technical aspects, it was also a great team-building measure and once again an opportunity to meet many great personalities. It's always nice to meet people who pursue the same goals as we do: Making the world a better place through more wind energy and slowing down climate change.
By the way, a large part of the team travelled there by train. It was quite a ride, but somehow it's fitting to travel to a wind energy conference by train, even if it would have been faster by plane. All in all, we enjoyed the WESC very much and are looking forward to the next WESC in 2025 in Nantes. Then again by train...
In the picture from left to right: Julia Gebauer, Wasay Khan, Can Muyan, Felix Prigge, Yixing Wang, Claudio Balzani.
