Abstract
In recent years, wind energy has begun to receive a significant amount of attention as clean energy is utilised and demanded in large quantities, resulting in a sharp increase in the use of wind turbines. The demand for wind turbines has gradually risen due to the clean and recyclable nature of wind energy. The current blade life of wind turbines in China is about 20 years, which means that the disposal of obsolete used blades can become a difficult problem in the future. Therefore, this study is of great significance to explore the regeneration performance of the blades after recycling and disposal. In this paper, wind turbine blades were mechanically recycled into recycled macrofibres, which were added to concrete as a reinforcing material to make wind impeller fibre concrete (WIC), and the three proportion ratios of 1%, 1.5%, and 2% were explored to compare the performance. The performance of WIC was also evaluated and its performance was compared to that of glass fibre concrete (GC). In addition, the material physical properties of second-generation recycled aggregate concrete (RAC) based on WIC were explored. The strength and peak strain variations and their causal mechanisms were analysed both macroscopically and microscopically by means of the classical mechanical tests (compression and bending tests), SEM, and XRD. The results show that the compressive strength of WIC was negatively correlated with the fibre content and increased by 6.04-18.12% compared to that of ordinary concrete (OG), with a maximum of 19.25 MPa; the flexural strength was positively correlated with the fibre content, with an increase of 5.37-18.5%. The microstructural analysis confirmed the macroscopic results and the intrinsic model better validated the experimental results.
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