TEAMER: Structural Tidal Turbine Blade Test to Failure
This TEAMER-funded project advanced the state of the art in validating that a blade design could withstand predicted extreme loading for current energy converters. Utilizing the turbine blade testing expertise at NLR, the campaign conducted a controlled static test to failure of the Verdant Power Gen5d epoxy turbine blade. This blade design had performed successfully at RITE and had previously been tested by NLR under static and fatigue loading. The results validated that the blade design could withstand model-predicted extreme loads and confirmed that the blade design and manufacturing process incorporated a sufficient safety factor to support a 20-year lifetime. Lessons learned from the campaign enabled cost reductions in the design and manufacturing of future turbine blades by helping avoid unnecessary over-design.
This submission contains the post-access report, raw data files for all instrumentation for the final tests to blade failure, MATLAB functions and datasets for processing CreaForm point tracking data, and all datasets used to produce figures for the post-access report.
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AB - This TEAMER-funded project advanced the state of the art in validating that a blade design could withstand predicted extreme loading for current energy converters. Utilizing the turbine blade testing expertise at NLR, the campaign conducted a controlled static test to failure of the Verdant Power Gen5d epoxy turbine blade. This blade design had performed successfully at RITE and had previously been tested by NLR under static and fatigue loading. The results validated that the blade design could withstand model-predicted extreme loads and confirmed that the blade design and manufacturing process incorporated a sufficient safety factor to support a 20-year lifetime. Lessons learned from the campaign enabled cost reductions in the design and manufacturing of future turbine blades by helping avoid unnecessary over-design.
This submission contains the post-access report, raw data files for all instrumentation for the final tests to blade failure, MATLAB functions and datasets for processing CreaForm point tracking data, and all datasets used to produce figures for the post-access report.
AU - Murdy, Paul
A2 - Murray, Robynne
A3 - Beach, Ryan
A4 - Colby, Jonathan
A5 - Phillips, Bruce
DB - Marine and Hydrokinetic Data Repository
DP - Open EI | National Laboratory of the Rockies
DO -
KW - MHK
KW - Marine
KW - Hydrokinetic
KW - energy
KW - power
KW - tidal
KW - structural validation
KW - ultimate strength
LA - English
DA - 2026/09/29
PY - 2026
PB - National Laboratory of the Rockies
T1 - TEAMER: Structural Tidal Turbine Blade Test to Failure
UR - https://mhkdr.openei.org/submissions/738
ER -
Murdy, Paul, et al. TEAMER: Structural Tidal Turbine Blade Test to Failure. National Laboratory of the Rockies, 29 September, 2026, Marine and Hydrokinetic Data Repository. https://mhkdr.openei.org/submissions/738.
Murdy, P., Murray, R., Beach, R., Colby, J., & Phillips, B. (2026). TEAMER: Structural Tidal Turbine Blade Test to Failure. [Data set]. Marine and Hydrokinetic Data Repository. National Laboratory of the Rockies. https://mhkdr.openei.org/submissions/738
Murdy, Paul, Robynne Murray, Ryan Beach, Jonathan Colby, and Bruce Phillips. TEAMER: Structural Tidal Turbine Blade Test to Failure. National Laboratory of the Rockies, September, 29, 2026. Distributed by Marine and Hydrokinetic Data Repository. https://mhkdr.openei.org/submissions/738
@misc{MHKDR_Dataset_738,
title = {TEAMER: Structural Tidal Turbine Blade Test to Failure},
author = {Murdy, Paul and Murray, Robynne and Beach, Ryan and Colby, Jonathan and Phillips, Bruce},
abstractNote = {This TEAMER-funded project advanced the state of the art in validating that a blade design could withstand predicted extreme loading for current energy converters. Utilizing the turbine blade testing expertise at NLR, the campaign conducted a controlled static test to failure of the Verdant Power Gen5d epoxy turbine blade. This blade design had performed successfully at RITE and had previously been tested by NLR under static and fatigue loading. The results validated that the blade design could withstand model-predicted extreme loads and confirmed that the blade design and manufacturing process incorporated a sufficient safety factor to support a 20-year lifetime. Lessons learned from the campaign enabled cost reductions in the design and manufacturing of future turbine blades by helping avoid unnecessary over-design.
This submission contains the post-access report, raw data files for all instrumentation for the final tests to blade failure, MATLAB functions and datasets for processing CreaForm point tracking data, and all datasets used to produce figures for the post-access report.},
url = {https://mhkdr.openei.org/submissions/738},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {Marine and Hydrokinetic Data Repository, National Laboratory of the Rockies, https://mhkdr.openei.org/submissions/738},
note = {Accessed: 2026-09-29}
}
Details
Data from Sep 29, 2026
Last updated Sep 29, 2026
Submission in progress
Organization
National Laboratory of the Rockies
Contact
Paul Murdy
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