Industry Standard Software

The Garrad Hassan approach to the calculation of wind turbine performance and loading has been developed over the last twenty years. The main aim of this development has been to produce reliable tools for use in the design and certification of wind turbines.

The Windows-based graphical user interface and on-line help facility makes GH Bladed easy and convenient to use. It is the industry standard for wind turbine design calculations. GH Bladed supports calculations of combined wind and wave loading, with full aeroelastic and hydroelastic modelling and seismic excitation. GH Bladed has been validated by Germanischer Lloyd for the calculation of wind turbine loads for design and certification.

GH Bladed is used by wind turbine and component manufacturers, certification agencies, design consultants and research organisations across the world. A number of modules are available, covering steady state analysis, dynamic load simulations, analysis of loads and energy capture, batch processing and automated report generation, interaction with the electrical network, and model linearisation for control design.

GH Bladed is also available in an educational version which provides a world class tool for teaching wind turbine technology.