Abstract

The experience in designing aircraft components for lightning protection was employed to develop knitted soldered meshes to decrease damage of composites used to make wind blades to benefit from improved dissipative properties. Conductive nanostructured carbon modifiers are proposed to improve the electric conductivity of carbon fiber-reinforced plastic laminates and enhance the adhesion strength between the carbon fibers and binder. Knitted soldered copper meshes are suggested to improve the lightning protection of wind turbine blades (lightning arresters and down conductors). The research results will be useful for overall efficient lightning protection of wind turbine blades.

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