Reconstruction of Wind Turbine Blade Geometry and Shape Matching of Airfoil Profiles to Point Clouds

Wind Turbine Blades have a limited operation life due to safety and performance concerns. At the end of this cycle, these massive composite structures still retain more than sufficient structural capacity for architectural and infrastructure re-use applications. Re-Wind research group develops ideas and technologies for at scale solutions of accumulating blade waste problem. Blade Machine (BM) is the software workflow used in construction of reliable digital twins for these objects. We share the results of turbine blade geometry reconstructions from 3D point clouds using a knowledge-based approach. With necessary adjustments the described method can be generalized for application in a vast array of objects in the built environment for surveying or re-use.