%0 Journal Article %T Simulation of Mechanical Behavior and Damage of a Large Composite Wind Turbine Blade under Critical Loads %+ Institut de Recherche Dupuy de Lôme (IRDL) %+ Université Hassan II [Casablanca] (UH2MC) %A Tarfaoui, Mostapha %A Nachtane, Mourad %A Khadimallah, Hafedh %A Saifaoui, Dennoun %< avec comité de lecture %@ 0929-189X %J Applied Composite Materials %I Springer Verlag (Germany) %V 25 %N 2 %P 237-254 %8 2018-04-01 %D 2018 %R 10.1007/s10443-017-9612-x %K Composite wind turbine blade %K Finite element analysis %K Mechanical behavior %Z Engineering Sciences [physics] %Z Engineering Sciences [physics]/Mechanics [physics.med-ph]/Materials and structures in mechanics [physics.class-ph]Journal articles %X Issues such as energy generation/transmission and greenhouse gas emissions are the two energy problems we face today. In this context, renewable energy sources are a necessary part of the solution essentially winds power, which is one of the most profitable sources of competition with new fossil energy facilities. This paper present the simulation of mechanical behavior and damage of a 48 m composite wind turbine blade under critical wind loads. The finite element analysis was performed by using ABAQUS code to predict the most critical damage behavior and to apprehend and obtain knowledge of the complex structural behavior of wind turbine blades. The approach developed based on the nonlinear FE analysis using mean values for the material properties and the failure criteria of Tsai-Hill to predict failure modes in large structures and to identify the sensitive zones. %G English %L hal-01715408 %U https://hal.science/hal-01715408 %~ UNIV-BREST %~ ENSTA-BRETAGNE %~ CNRS %~ UNIV-UBS %~ UBS %~ ENIB %~ IRDL %~ ENSTA-BRETAGNE-MECA %~ TEST-HALCNRS %~ ENSTA-BRETAGNE-PTR1-IRDL