Patent ID: 8167569

Claim:
An alignment and clamping structure for sections of a multi-section wind turbine blade, comprising: a plurality of blade sections forming joints between adjacent blade sections, including at least a first section and a second section forming a joint; a bulkhead mounted on the inner surface of a shell of the first section at an outer end; and a bulkhead mounted on the inner surface of a shell of the second section at an inner end; and the bulkhead for the first section including at least one male alignment pin and at least one bushing on an exterior surface of the bulkhead of the first section and the bulkhead of the second section including at least one bushing and at least one male alignment pin on an exterior surface of the bulkhead of the second section, the at least one male alignment pin of the bulkhead for the first section being configured to be received within the at least one bushing of the bulkhead for the second section and the at least one male alignment pin of the bulkhead for the second section being configured to be received within the at least one bushing of the bulkhead for the first section.