Acoustic emission monitoring of small wind turbine blades

Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 446-454

  Joosse, P A ^a   Blanch, M J ^b   Dutton, A G ^b   Kouroussis, D A ^c   Philippidis, T P ^d   Vionis, P S ^e  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c Envirocoustics ABEE   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^e CRES   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EMISSION TESTING; ACOUSTIC NOISE; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; MONITORING; WIND TURBINES;

ACOUSTIC EMISSION MONITORING; CRACKING SOUNDS; NOISE SOURCE; TURBINE BLADE CERTIFICATION;

TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

EID: 33845363392     PISSN: 01996231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1509769     Document Type: Article

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