Patent ID: 9605651
Date: 2017-03-28
CPC Classifications: F03D,F05B,Y02E,Y02P,Y10T

Claim:
1. A rotor blade assembly for a wind turbine, the rotor blade assembly comprising: a rotor blade comprising a first blade segment and a second blade segment, each segment comprising a pressure side shell member and an opposite suction side shell member; and, a spar assembly comprising a first spar cap segment and a second spar cap segment, the first spar cap segment configured on an interior surface of the first blade segment, the second spar cap segment configured on an interior surface of the second blade segment, each of the spar cap segments comprising respective adjacent ends having complementary first and second joint sections that are joinable at a chord-wise joint, each of the first and second joint sections including a plurality of holes formed therein, the spar assembly further comprising a plurality of dowel pins each having a solid cross-section inserted into the plurality of holes of the first and second joint sections to join the first and second blade segments, wherein the dowel pins are fixed in the plurality of holes with an adhesive.