Abstract: A rotor blade for a wind energy installation includes a blade root, a blade tip, and at least one rotor blade shell extending in a longitudinal direction from the blade root to the blade tip, and having an inner shell region and an outer shell region. The inner shell region includes a first fiber composite with at least two first fiber layers, and the outer shell region includes a second fiber composite with at least two second fiber layers. The first and second fiber layers extend substantially in the longitudinal direction. At least a first fiber layer of the first fiber composite terminates in the region of at least one end position in the longitudinal direction, whereas the remaining first fiber layers extend beyond the end position. At least a second fiber layer of the second fiber composite terminates in the region of the end position in the longitudinal direction, whereas the remaining second fiber layers extend beyond the end position.

Abstract: A rotor blade mold and a method for manufacturing a rotor blade for a wind energy installation, wherein the rotor blade includes a blade root and a blade tip and wherein the rotor blade extends in a longitudinal direction from the blade root to the blade tip. The mold includes a first rotor blade mold segment adapted for manufacturing a portion of the rotor blade that includes the blade root, a second rotor blade mold segment adapted for manufacturing a portion of the rotor blade that includes the blade tip, and at least a third rotor blade mold segment adapted to be integrated in the rotor blade mold between the first mold segment and the second mold segment, and/or to be removed from the rotor blade mold and thereby lengthen or shorten the rotor blade mold in the longitudinal direction.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a rotor blade component for a rotor blade of a wind energy installation, a rotor blade component, and a wind energy installation comprising such a rotor blade component. The method includes manufacturing a layer system including a first layer of a first material and a second layer of a second material. The second material has a smaller modulus of elasticity than the first material, and the second layer extends at least partially along the first layer. The layer system is beveled at least at one end with the aid of at least one separation process such that the second layer projects beyond the first layer at the at least one end of the layer system. The layer system is connected to at least one other such layer system so as to form the rotor blade component.

Abstract: A method of introducing a rotor blade spar cap into a rotor blade shell for a rotor blade of a wind energy installation, a spar cap mold for manufacturing a rotor blade spar cap, a rotor blade comprising such a spar cap, and a wind energy installation including such a rotor blade. At least two strip-shaped spar cap elements are arranged on at least one substantially flat spar cap forming surface of the spar cap mold. The at least one spar cap forming surface extends along a longitudinal direction of the spar cap mold which corresponds to a longitudinal axis of the rotor blade. The spar cap elements are arranged on the at least one spar cap forming surface along the longitudinal direction and are connected to one another so as to form the rotor blade spar cap. The spar cap elements connected to one another are removed from the spar cap mold, are introduced into the rotor blade shell, and are connected to the rotor blade shell.

Abstract: A rotor blade for a wind energy installation includes a blade root, a blade tip, and at least one rotor blade shell extending in a longitudinal direction from the blade root to the blade tip, and having an inner shell region and an outer shell region. The inner shell region includes a first fiber composite with at least two first fiber layers, and the outer shell region includes a second fiber composite with at least two second fiber layers. The first and second fiber layers extend substantially in the longitudinal direction. At least a first fiber layer of the first fiber composite terminates in the region of at least one end position in the longitudinal direction, whereas the remaining first fiber layers extend beyond the end position. At least a second fiber layer of the second fiber composite terminates in the region of the end position in the longitudinal direction, whereas the remaining second fiber layers extend beyond the end position.

Abstract: The invention relates to a rotor blade of a wind power plant having two rotor blade half-shells (1, 21) with in each case a leading-edge periphery and a trailing-edge periphery (8a, 22a), which rotor blade half-shells are adhesively fastened to each other along the leading-edge and trailing-edge peripheries (8a, 22) and which in case have a trailing-edge girder (3, 25), and each of the trailing-edge girders (3, 25) at least in certain sections is of rectangular design in a cross section along its longitudinal extent.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a rotor blade of a wind power plant which has an area close to the blade root in which the rotor blade has an obtuse rear edge. The method includes manufacturing a half-shell on the pressure side and a half-shell on the suction side, introducing and adhesively bonding filler bodies into at least one section of the area of the obtuse rear edge of the pressure-side half-shell and the suction-side half-shell, wherein the sections with the filler bodies lie opposite one another in the assembled rotor blade, assembling and positioning the half-shells relative to one another, wherein an adhesive gap which is delimited by the first adhesive surfaces of the filler bodies remains between the filler bodies, and introducing an adhesive medium into the adhesive gap. Also a rotor blade manufactured according to the method, and a wind power plant including such a rotor blade.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for producing a rotor blade spar cap for a rotor blade of a wind turbine. The apparatus includes a mold, which has a cavity-like depression in cross section, in which material for a rotor blade spar cap can be placed, and a sheet-like mold covering for sealing off the depression. The depression has side walls, an opening bounded by the side walls and a base area between the side walls. In accordance with the method, fiber material and/or fiber-reinforced material is placed in the depression of the mold such that the material finishes flush with the side walls with respect to the height of the rotor blade spar cap, the depression is sealed off by the sheet-like mold covering, the material is fused together to form the rotor blade spar cap and the rotor blade spar cap is removed from the mold.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a composite fiber component for a rotor blade of a wind turbine that includes introducing a fiber material into a mold, supplying a flowable matrix material via a longitudinally extending runner of the mold using a vacuum infusion method such that the fiber material is soaked with matrix material from the runner and the matrix material flows transversely to the longitudinal extension of the runner such that a first region of the fiber material is substantially soaked with matrix material from a first section of the runner and a second region of the fiber material is substantially soaked with matrix material from a second region of the runner, and matrix material flow rates are set for the first section and the second section of the runner depending on thicknesses of the fiber material in the first region and the second region of the runner, respectively.

Abstract: A composite fiber component for a rotor blade of a wind power plant including a first sandwich core and a second sandwich core arranged next to each other, each having an inside facing a rotor blade interior and an outside facing a rotor blade exterior. A first fiber-containing laminate layer is arranged on the inside of the first sandwich core and on the outside of the second sandwich core. A second fiber-containing laminate layer is arranged on the outside of the first sandwich core and on the outside of the second sandwich core. And, a third fiber-containing laminate layer is arranged on the inside of the first sandwich core and on the inside of the second sandwich core. Also disclosed is a rotor blade for a wind power plant having a composite fiber component as disclosed.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a rotor blade by arranging foam (23, 24) in a semi-finished product, introducing resin into the foam-containing semi-finished product, and curing the introduced resin while heat is dissipated and a curing temperature distribution is obtained, a first foam (23) being arranged in regions of the semi-finished product with a higher curing temperature, and a second foam (24) in regions with a lower curing temperature, and a foam with a higher temperature resistance than the second foam (24) being chosen as the first foam (23).

Abstract: The invention relates to a rotor blade of a wind power plant having two rotor blade half-shells (1, 21) with in each case a leading-edge periphery and a trailing-edge periphery (8a, 22a), which rotor blade half-shells are adhesively fastened to each other along the leading-edge and trailing-edge peripheries (8a, 22) and which in case have a trailing-edge girder (3, 25), and each of the trailing-edge girders (3, 25) at least in certain sections is of rectangular design in a cross section along its longitudinal extent.

Abstract: The invention relates to a system and to a method for producing a rotor-blade spar cap with pultruded rods made of a fiber-reinforced material. According to the invention, the system includes at least one retaining apparatus for rotatably mounting at least one rod-layer roll with a rolled-up layer of pultruded rods arranged one beside the other, and a laminating mold for receiving layers of pultruded rods. The system further includes at least one guiding apparatus and additionally at least one trimming apparatus. The guiding apparatus is designed to guide onto the laminating mold a layer of pultruded rods which has been unrolled from a rod-layer roll. And, the trimming apparatus, for trimming the layers of pultruded rods, has a sawing apparatus and/or a milling apparatus.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a rotor blade of a wind power plant which has an area close to the blade root in which the rotor blade has an obtuse rear edge. The method includes manufacturing a half-shell on the pressure side and a half-shell on the suction side, introducing and adhesively bonding filler bodies into at least one section of the area of the obtuse rear edge of the pressure-side half-shell and the suction-side half-shell, wherein the sections with the filler bodies lie opposite one another in the assembled rotor blade, assembling and positioning the half-shells relative to one another, wherein an adhesive gap which is delimited by the first adhesive surfaces of the filler bodies remains between the filler bodies, and introducing an adhesive medium into the adhesive gap. Also a rotor blade manufactured according to the method, and a wind power plant including such a rotor blade.

Abstract: A rotor blade and a method and a manufacturing mold for the production of a rotor blade for a wind turbine, which extends longitudinally in the operational state from a blade root area to the connection to a rotor hub of the wind turbine and which is divided into at least two segments for its production, wherein at least one subdivision is provided approximately transverse to its longitudinal extension between the blade root area and the blade tip. The method facilitates and shortens the production of the rotor blade, in particular for a series production and to still provide the completed rotor blade as a familiar uniform rotor blade. In the method, the at least two segments, preferably after they have been at least partially produced or partially produced mainly parallel in time, are interconnected in an integration device.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for producing a rotor blade spar cap for a rotor blade of a wind turbine. The apparatus includes a mold, which has a cavity-like depression in cross section, in which material for a rotor blade spar cap can be placed, and a sheet-like mold covering for sealing off the depression. The depression has side walls, an opening bounded by the side walls and a base area between the side walls. In accordance with the method, fiber material and/or fiber-reinforced material is placed in the depression of the mold such that the material finishes flush with the side walls with respect to the height of the rotor blade spar cap, the depression is sealed off by the sheet-like mold covering, the material is fused together to form the rotor blade spar cap and the rotor blade spar cap is removed from the mold.

Abstract: The invention relates to a system and to a method for producing a rotor-blade spar cap with pultruded rods made of a fiber-reinforced material. According to the invention, the system includes at least one retaining apparatus for rotatably mounting at least one rod-layer roll with a rolled-up layer of pultruded rods arranged one beside the other, and a laminating mold for receiving layers of pultruded rods. The system further includes at least one guiding apparatus and additionally at least one trimming apparatus. The guiding apparatus is designed to guide onto the laminating mold a layer of pultruded rods which has been unrolled from a rod-layer roll. And, the trimming apparatus, for trimming the layers of pultruded rods, has a sawing apparatus and/or a milling apparatus.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a rotor blade by arranging foam (23, 24) in a semi-finished product, introducing resin into the foam-containing semi-finished product, and curing the introduced resin while heat is dissipated and a curing temperature distribution is obtained, a first foam (23) being arranged in regions of the semi-finished product with a higher curing temperature, and a second foam (24) in regions with a lower curing temperature, and a foam with a higher temperature resistance than the second foam (24) being chosen as the first foam (23).

Abstract: A composite fiber component for a rotor blade of a wind power plant including a first sandwich core and a second sandwich core arranged next to each other, each having an inside facing a rotor blade interior and an outside facing a rotor blade exterior. A first fiber-containing laminate layer is arranged on the inside of the first sandwich core and on the outside of the second sandwich core. A second fiber-containing laminate layer is arranged on the outside of the first sandwich core and on the outside of the second sandwich core. And, a third fiber-containing laminate layer is arranged on the inside of the first sandwich core and on the inside of the second sandwich core. Also disclosed is a rotor blade for a wind power plant having a composite fiber component as disclosed.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a composite fiber component for a rotor blade of a wind turbine that includes introducing a fiber material into a mold, supplying a flowable matrix material via a longitudinally extending runner of the mold using a vacuum infusion method such that the fiber material is soaked with matrix material from the runner and the matrix material flows transversely to the longitudinal extension of the runner such that a first region of the fiber material is substantially soaked with matrix material from a first section of the runner and a second region of the fiber material is substantially soaked with matrix material from a second region of the runner, and matrix material flow rates are set for the first section and the second section of the runner depending on thicknesses of the fiber material in the first region and the second region of the runner, respectively.