Increasing economic viability and safety through structural health monitoring of wind turbines
- 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.
| Author: | Daniel Schwahlen, Jens Fey, Christoph Nieß, Martin Reimann, Uwe Handmann |
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| URL: | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8333511/ |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1109/SusTech.2017.8333511 |
| Parent Title (English): | 2017 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech) |
| Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2017 |
| Contributing Corporation: | IEEE |
| Release Date: | 2019/07/02 |
| Page Number: | 5 |
| Institutes: | Fachbereich 1 - Institut Informatik |
| DDC class: | 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 600 Technik |
| Licence (German): |  No Creative Commons |
