Kim, Taeseong; Hansen, Anders M.; Branner, Kim - In: Renewable Energy 59 (2013) C, pp. 172-183
In this paper a new anisotropic beam finite element for composite wind turbine blades is developed and implemented into … the aeroelastic nonlinear multibody code, HAWC2, intended to be used to investigate if use of anisotropic material layups …. The element stiffness and mass matrices are first derived based on pre-calculated anisotropic beam properties, and the …