Fibre Bragg grating sensor system monitors operational load in a wind turbine rotor blade

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5855 PART I, Issue , 2005, Pages 270-273

  Schröder, Kerstin ^a   Apitz, Jörg ^b   Ecke, Wolfgang ^a   Lembke, Elfrun ^b   Lenschow, Gerhard ^c  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b JENOPTIK Laser Optik Systeme GmbH   (Germany)

^c ENERCON GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; ROTORS; STRAIN MEASUREMENT; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; WIND TURBINES;

LOAD MONITORING; ROTOR BLADES; SENSOR SYSTEM;

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS;

EID: 28544440528     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.623990     Document Type: Conference Paper

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