Multiple damage identification on a wind turbine blade using a structural neural system

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6530, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Kirikera, Goutham R ^a,c   Schulz, Mark J ^a   Sundaresan, Mannur J ^b  

^a 705 Engineering Research Center   (United States)

^b North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University   (United States)

^c Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic Emission (AE); Structural Health Monitoring (SHM); Structural Neural System (SNS)

Indexed keywords

MULTIPLE DAMAGE IDENTIFICATION; STRUCTURAL NEURAL SYSTEM (SNS); WAVE SIMULATION ALGORITHM (WSA); WIND TURBINE BLADES;

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; ALGORITHMS; COMPOSITE STRUCTURES; DATA ACQUISITION; SENSORS; STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING; TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

WIND TURBINES;

EID: 35649003016     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.716071     Document Type: Conference Paper

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