Fiber Bragg grating sensor system for operational load monitoring of wind turbine blades

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6933, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Ecke, Wolfgang ^a   Schröder, Kerstin ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC LOAD MANAGEMENT; OPTICAL SENSORS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; WIND TURBINES;

BENDING LOADS; LOAD MONITORING; ON-LINE MONITORING;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 43649095378     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.778793     Document Type: Conference Paper

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