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Leibniz Universität Hannover – IWES

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Scopus Author ID: 23975382100
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Composite Structures, Finite Element Method, High-Resolution X-Ray Microscopy, Micro-CT, Rotor Blade Design, Structural Mechanics, Wind Energy Technology

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Leibniz University Hannover: Hannover, DE

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Leibniz Universität Hannover: Hannover, Niedersachsen, DE

2011-07-01 to present | Senior scientist (Institute for Wind Energy Systems)
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Claudio Balzani

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology: Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, DE

2011-04-01 to 2011-05-31 | Research staff (Institute for Structural Analysis)
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Claudio Balzani

Technische Universität Dortmund: Dortmund, Nordrhein-Westfalen, DE

2010-09-01 to 2011-03-31 | Deputy chair holder / Research staff (Chair of Mechanics-Statics)
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Claudio Balzani

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology: Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, DE

2004-01-01 to 2010-08-31 | Research staff (Institute for Structural Analysis)
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Claudio Balzani

Education and qualifications (2)

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology: Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, DE

2004-01-01 to 2009-01-16 | PhD student (Institute for Structural Analysis)
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Claudio Balzani

Universität Duisburg-Essen: Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, DE

1997-10-01 to 2003-12-31 | Student of Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
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Claudio Balzani

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GACM (German Association for Computational Mechanics): Registered in the register of associations of the district court Hannover, Niedersachsen, DE

2011-09-01 to present | Personal membership
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Works (43)

Determination of delamination-related material properties and sensitivities in a ply drop composite using a semi-numerical approach

Journal of Physics: Conference Series
2024 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/2767/8/082008
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Contributors: Claudio Balzani; Basem Rajjoub; Andreas Schulz; Florian Sayer
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FIS - Leibniz Universität Hannover

Leveraging Vision Transformers for Detecting Porosity in Wind Energy Composites

Journal of Physics: Conference Series
2024 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/2767/5/052044
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Contributors: A. W. Khan; Claudio Balzani
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FIS - Leibniz Universität Hannover

Superelement-based acceleration of finite-element simulations of wind turbine rotors

Journal of Physics: Conference Series
2024 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/2767/5/052029
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Contributors: Florian Schleich; Zijian Chen; Matthis Graßmann; Claudio Balzani; Matthias Stammler
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Uncertainty quantification of structural blade parameters for the aeroelastic damping of wind turbines: a code-to-code comparison

Wind Energy Science
2024-08-20 | Journal article
DOI: 10.5194/wes-9-1747-2024
Contributors: Hendrik Verdonck; Oliver Hach; Jelmer D. Polman; Otto Schramm; Claudio Balzani; Sarah Müller; Johannes Rieke
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On the influence of cross-sectional deformations on the aerodynamic performance of wind turbine rotor blades

2024-07-24 | Preprint
DOI: 10.5194/wes-2024-91
Contributors: Julia Sabrina Gebauer; Felix Konstantin Prigge; Dominik Ahrens; Lars Wein; Claudio Balzani
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Comparison of different cross-sectional approaches for the structural design and optimization of composite wind turbine blades based on beam models

Wind Energy Science
2024-07-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.5194/wes-9-1465-2024
Contributors: Edgar Werthen; Daniel Hardt; Claudio Balzani; Christian Hühne
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Buckling behavior of rotor blade sandwich panels with spatially distributed material uncertainties

IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering
2024-06-10 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/2767/5/052027
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Contributors: Felix Prigge; Claudio Balzani
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Non-proportionality analysis of multiaxial fatigue stress histories in trailing edge adhesive joints of wind turbine rotor blades

2024-01-15 | Preprint
DOI: 10.5194/wes-2023-167
Contributors: Claudio Balzani; Pablo Noever Castelos
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On the Estimation of Short Fiber Orientation in a Filled Epoxy Adhesive and its Effect on the Tensile Strength

AIAA SCITECH 2023 Forum
2023 | Conference paper | Author
DOI: 10.2514/6.2023-1922
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Part of ISBN: 9781624106996
Contributors: T. Holst; A. Antoniou; N. Englisch; Nikolas Manousides; Claudio Balzani
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Using conditional generative adversarial networks for the prediction of stresses in an adhesive composite

PAMM
2023-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/pamm.202300165
Contributors: Abdul Wasay Khan; Claudio Balzani
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Comparison of different cross-sectional approaches for the structural design and optimization of composite wind turbine blades based on beam models

2023-10-26 | Preprint
DOI: 10.5194/wes-2023-147
Contributors: Edgar Werthen; Daniel Hardt; Claudio Balzani; Christian Hühne
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Effects of non-proportionality and tension–compression asymmetry on the fatigue life prediction of equivalent stress criteria

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures
2023-08-10 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1111/ffe.14065
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Contributors: Michael Kuhn; Nikolas Manousides; Alexandros Antoniou; Claudio Balzani
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Uncertainty quantification of structural blade parameters for the aeroelastic damping of wind turbines: a code-to-code comparison

2023-08-08 | Preprint
DOI: 10.5194/wes-2023-80
Contributors: Hendrik Verdonck; Oliver Hach; Jelmer D. Polman; Otto Braun; Claudio Balzani; Sarah Müller; Johannes Rieke
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Cross-Sectional Deformation of Wind Turbine Rotor Blades

Proceedings of the 33rd International Ocean and Polar Engineering Conference, 2023
2023-06-19 | Conference paper | Author
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Part of ISBN: 9781880653807
Contributors: Julia Gebauer; Claudio Balzani
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Fatigue properties of a structural rotor blade adhesive under axial and torsional loading

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures
2023-02-08 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1111/ffe.13925
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Contributors: Michael Kuhn; Nikolas Manousides; Alexandros Antoniou; Claudio Balzani
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Determination of as-built properties of fiber reinforced polymers in a wind turbine blade using scanning electron and high-resolution X-ray microscopy

Composites Part C: Open Access
2022-10 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcomc.2022.100310
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Contributors: Malo Rosemeier; Catherine Lester; Alexandros Antoniou; Christoph Fahrenson; Nikolas Manousides; Claudio Balzani
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Yield surface derivation for a structural adhesive based on multiaxial experiments

Polymer testing
2022-09 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymertesting.2022.107648
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Contributors: Michael Kuhn; Nikolas Manousides; Alexandros Antoniou; Claudio Balzani
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An open-source framework for the uncertainty quantification of aeroelastic wind turbine simulation tools

Floating Wind; Systems Design and Multi-Fidelity/Multi-Disciplinary Modelling; Future Wind; Smaller Wind Turbines
2022-06-02 | Conference paper | Author
DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/2265/4/042039
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Contributors: Hendrik Verdonck; Oliver Hach; Jelmer Derk Polman; Otto Braun; Claudio Balzani; Sarah Müller; Johannes Rieke
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Model updating of a wind turbine blade finite element Timoshenko beam model with invertible neural networks

Wind Energy Science
2022-03-16 | Journal article
DOI: 10.5194/wes-7-623-2022
Contributors: Pablo Noever-Castelos; David Melcher; Claudio Balzani
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Model updating of wind turbine blade cross sections with invertible neural networks

WIND ENERGY
2022-03-10 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1002/we.2687
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Contributors: Pablo Noever-Castelos; Lynton Ardizzone; Claudio Balzani
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Validation of a modeling methodology for wind turbine rotor blades based on a full-scale blade test

Wind Energy Science
2022-01-21 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.5194/wes-7-105-2022
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Contributors: Pablo Noever-Castelos; Bernd Haller; Claudio Balzani
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Design and manufacturing optimization of epoxy-based adhesive specimens for multiaxial tests

Materials and design
2021-12-15 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2021.110213
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EID:

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Contributors: Michael Wentingmann; Nikolas Manousides; Alexandros Antoniou; Claudio Balzani
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Model updating of a wind turbine blade finite element beam model with invertible neural networks

2021-09-17 | Preprint
DOI: 10.5194/wes-2021-84
Contributors: Pablo Noever-Castelos; David Melcher; Claudio Balzani
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Validation of a modelling methodology for wind turbine rotor blades based on a full scale blade test

2021-04-29 | Preprint
DOI: 10.5194/wes-2021-24
Contributors: Pablo Noever-Castelos; Bernd Haller; Claudio Balzani
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An adaptive algorithm to accelerate the critical plane identification for multiaxial fatigue criteria

Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Computational Mechanics: Solids, Structures and Coupled Problems, ECCM 2018 and 7th European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics, ECFD 2018
2020 | Conference paper
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Contributors: Wentingmann, M.; Noever-Castelos, P.; Balzani, C.
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Finite element analysis and failure prediction of adhesive joints in wind turbine rotor blades

Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Computational Mechanics: Solids, Structures and Coupled Problems, ECCM 2018 and 7th European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics, ECFD 2018
2020 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85081060766
Contributors: Balzani, C.; Noever-Castelos, P.; Wentingmann, M.
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ReliaBlade Project: A Materials Perspective towards the Digitalization of Wind Turbine Rotor Blades

IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering
2020 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1088/1757-899X/942/1/012006
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2-s2.0-85096505519

Part of ISSN: 1757899X 17578981
Contributors: Sayer, F.; Antoniou, A.; Goutianos, S.; Gebauer, I.; Branner, K.; Balzani, C.
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Wind turbine stability: Comparison of state-of-the-art aeroelastic simulation tools

Journal of Physics: Conference Series
2020 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/1618/5/052048
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2-s2.0-85092385219

Part of ISSN: 17426596 17426588
Contributors: Hach, O.; Verdonck, H.; Polman, J.D.; Balzani, C.; Müller, S.; Rieke, J.; Hennings, H.
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Selected results on the development and testing of smart blades technologies for wind turbines

9th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Smart Structures and Materials, SMART 2019
2019 | Conference paper
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Contributors: Montano, Z.M.; Opitz, S.; Riemenschneider, J.; Werthen, E.; Pohl, M.; Govers, Y.; Gundlach, J.; Petrović, V.; Ungurán, R.; Neuhaus, L. et al.
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The Challenge of Teaching Control of Wind Turbines in a Civil Engineering School

IFAC-PapersOnLine
2019 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2019.08.199
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Part of ISSN: 24058963
Contributors: Gambier, A.; Balzani, C.
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On the impact of multi-axial stress states on trailing edge bondlines in wind turbine rotor blades

Journal of Physics: Conference Series
2016 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/753/6/062002
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2-s2.0-84995480698

Part of ISSN: 17426596 17426588
Contributors: Castelos, P.N.; Balzani, C.
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The impact of geometric non-linearities on the fatigue analysis of trailing edge bond lines in wind turbine rotor blades

Journal of Physics: Conference Series
2016 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/749/1/012009
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Part of ISSN: 17426596 17426588
Contributors: Castelos, P.N.; Balzani, C.
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Aerodynamic and structural aspects of swept blades in the context of wind turbine load reduction

European Wind Energy Association Annual Conference and Exhibition 2015, EWEA 2015 - Scientific Proceedings
2015 | Conference paper
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Contributors: Sevinc, A.; Bleich, O.; Balzani, C.; Reuter, A.
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Claudio Balzani via Scopus - Elsevier

Evaluation of the possibility of replacing pitch control by active trailing edge flaps in wind turbines

European Wind Energy Association Conference and Exhibition 2014, EWEA 2014
2014 | Conference paper
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Contributors: Ortega Gómez, J.; Balzani, C.; Reuter, A.
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Adhesive joints in composite laminates - A combined numerical/experimental estimate of critical energy release rates

International Journal of Adhesion and Adhesives
2012 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijadhadh.2011.09.002
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2-s2.0-81955164861

Part of ISSN: 01437496
Contributors: Balzani, C.; Wagner, W.; Wilckens, D.; Degenhardt, R.; Büsing, S.; Reimerdes, H.-G.
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Finite element modeling of stringer-stiffened fiber reinforced polymer structures

Advanced Structured Materials
2012 | Book
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2-s2.0-84870486939

Part of ISSN: 18698433 18698441
Contributors: Wagner, W.; Balzani, C.
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Damage sensitivity of axially loaded stringer-stiffened curved CFRP panels

Composites Science and Technology
2010 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.compscitech.2009.10.013
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Part of ISSN: 02663538
Contributors: Lauterbach, S.; Orifici, A.C.; Wagner, W.; Balzani, C.; Abramovich, H.; Thomson, R.
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Finite element modeling of stringer-stiffened fiber reinforced polymer structures

Computer Methods in Mechanics. Advanced Structured Materials, Vol. 1
2010 | Book chapter | Author
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-05241-5_27
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Part of ISBN: 978-3-642-05241-5
Part of ISBN: 978-3-642-05240-8
Contributors: Werner Wagner; Claudio Balzani
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Numerical treatment of damage propagation in axially compressed composite airframe panels

International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics
2010 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1142/S0219455410003683
EID:

2-s2.0-77955668120

Part of ISSN: 02194554
Contributors: Balzani, C.; Wagner, W.
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Prediction of the postbuckling response of composite airframe panels including ply failure

Engineering Fracture Mechanics
2010 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2010.05.009
EID:

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Part of ISSN: 00137944
Contributors: Wagner, W.; Balzani, C.
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FE-modeling of damage propagation in axially compressed composite airframe panels

12th International Conference on Fracture 2009, ICF-12
2009 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-84869760489
Contributors: Wagner, W.; Balzani, C.
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An interface element for the simulation of delamination in unidirectional fiber-reinforced composite laminates

Engineering Fracture Mechanics
2008 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2007.03.013
EID:

2-s2.0-40749128074

Part of ISSN: 00137944
Contributors: Balzani, C.; Wagner, W.
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Claudio Balzani via Scopus - Elsevier

Simulation of delamination in stringer stiffened fiber-reinforced composite shells

Computers and Structures
2008 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruc.2007.04.018
EID:

2-s2.0-40849085774

Part of ISSN: 00457949
Contributors: Wagner, W.; Balzani, C.
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