Structural health monitoring of wind turbines: Method and application to a HAWT

Wind Energy

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 603-623

  Adams, Douglas ^a   White, Jonathan ^b   Rumsey, Mark ^b   Farrar, Charles ^c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

accelerometers; horizontal axis wind turbine; structural health monitoring; vibrations

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; DAMAGE DETECTION; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PATTERN RECOGNITION; STATISTICS; STIFFNESS; WIND; WIND TURBINES;

DAMAGE SCENARIOS; DYNAMIC DISPLACEMENTS; HORIZONTAL AXIS WIND TURBINES; MODAL ASSURANCE CRITERION; STANDARD DEVIATION; STATISTICAL PATTERN RECOGNITION; VERTICAL WIND SHEAR; VIBRATIONS;

STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING;

ACCELEROMETER; CALIBRATION; DAMAGE; DATA SET; DEFLECTION; MONITORING SYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PATTERN RECOGNITION; STIFFNESS; TURBULENT FLOW; VIBRATION; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINE; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 79956197427     PISSN: 10954244     EISSN: 10991824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/we.437     Document Type: Article

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