TY - CHAP U1 - Konferenzveröffentlichung A1 - Schwahlen, Daniel A1 - Fey, Jens A1 - Nieß, Christoph A1 - Reimann, Martin A1 - Handmann, Uwe T1 - Increasing economic viability and safety through structural health monitoring of wind turbines T2 - 2017 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech) N2 - Serious accidents with property damage or even human casualties, result from structural flaws in wind turbine rotor blades. Common maintenance practices result in long downtimes and do not lead to the required results. Therefore, the Ruhr West University of Applied Sciences and the iQbis Consulting GmbH, currently research a new structural health monitoring method for wind turbine rotor blades. The goal of this project is to build a sensor system that can detect structural weaknesses inside of rotor blades without the need of downtime for industrial climbers. This technology has the potential to prevent accidents, save lives, extend the useful life of wind turbines and optimize the production of green energy. Y1 - 2017 UR - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8333511/ U6 - https://doi.org/10.1109/SusTech.2017.8333511 DO - https://doi.org/10.1109/SusTech.2017.8333511 SP - 5 S1 - 5 ER -