Evaluation of Basalt Fibers on Wind Turbine Blades through Finite Element Analysis

Table 5

Structural results for the basalt-epoxy and E-glass-epoxy wind blade composite.

Wind velocity	Results	E-glass/epoxy	Basalt/epoxy
12 m/s	Equivalent stress	3.78 × 10^6 Pa	3.14 × 10^6 Pa
	Total deformation	0.5209 m	0.0161 m
40 m/s	Equivalent stress	4.72 × 10^7 Pa	4.55 × 10^7 Pa
	Total deformation	0.8035 m	0.2555 m