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This section involves the solid mechanics aspects of this wind turbine blade tutorial. The pressures load found using Fluent in Part 1 are imported in Mechanical and the stresses and deformations on the blade are subsequently determined.

The blade is composed of an outer surface and an inner spar. The thickness of the outside surface linearly decreases from 0.1 m at the root to 0.005 m at the tip. The spar has a similar thickness behavior with 0.1 m at its closest point to the root and 0.03 m at the tip. To sum up, here are the thickness specifications needed along with their location with respect to the global coordinate system (which represents the center of an imaginary hub). 

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