Impact loading and damage detection in a carbon composite TX-100 wind turbine rotor blade

46th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  White, Jonathan R ^a   Adams, Douglas E ^a   Rumsey, Mark A ^b   Van Dam, Jeroen ^c   Hughes, Scott ^c  

^a Purdue University   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; CAPACITIVE SENSORS; CARBON CARBON COMPOSITES; CRACKS; DAMAGE DETECTION; PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATORS; THERMAL FATIGUE; TURBINE COMPONENTS; WIND TURBINES;

ACTIVE DIAGNOSTICS; CAPACITIVE ACCELEROMETERS; COMPOSITE ROTOR BLADE; IMPACT IDENTIFICATION; IN-PLANE DISPLACEMENT MEASUREMENT; IN-PLANE MEASUREMENTS; TRIAXIAL ACCELEROMETER; WIND TURBINE ROTORS;

TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

EID: 43649093261     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2008-1349     Document Type: Conference Paper

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