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Wind Turbine Blade Fatigue Loading: Haigh Diagram (2D)

2D wind-turbine blade fatigue simulator: instead of orbiting a 3D rotor, watch the actual root stress-time waveform, a live Haigh (Goodman) diagram with constant-life lines, and the Basquin S-N curve move as wind speed, rotor speed and turbulence intensity accumulate Miner's-rule damage.

Energy & Thermodynamics2DAdvanced60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version
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This is the 2D-native counterpart to the 3D wind-turbine blade fatigue simulator. Rather than orbiting a rendered rotor, it plots the quantities that actually generate the physics: a scrolling root-stress waveform combining the gravity-driven load reversal with rotationally-sampled turbulence, a live Haigh (Goodman) diagram plotting each cycle's mean stress against its amplitude against constant-life boundaries, and the material's own Basquin S-N curve with the current cycle's Goodman-corrected point marked on it. The same Goodman mean-stress correction and Basquin power-law life model feed a Miner's-rule damage accumulator exactly as in the 3D version — turbulence intensity widens the stress swing (and, because life falls with roughly the tenth power of amplitude for composite laminates, dominates fatigue life far more than mean wind speed does), while wind speed and rotor speed shift the mean stress and the cycling rate respectively.

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2D wind-turbine blade fatigue simulator: instead of orbiting a 3D rotor, watch the actual root stress-time waveform, a live Haigh (Goodman) diagram with constant-life lines, and the Basquin S-N curve move as wind speed, rotor speed and turbulence intensity accumulate Miner's-rule fatigue damage.

wind energyfatigue analysisMiner's ruleS-N curveHaigh diagramGoodman correctionstructural engineeringcomposite materials

2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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