Fatigue crack detection performance comparison in a composite wind turbine rotor blade

Structural Health Monitoring

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 252-262

  Taylor, Stuart G ^a,b   Park, Gyuhae ^b,c   Farinholt, Kevin M ^d   Todd, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Chonnam National University   (South Korea)

^d Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

composite structures; detection performance; diffuse wave field; Fatigue crack; guided waves; rotor blade; wind turbine

Indexed keywords

DETECTION PERFORMANCE; DIFFUSE WAVES; FATIGUE CRACKS; MULTIPLE DETECTORS; RESONANT EXCITATION; ROTOR BLADES; THROUGH-THICKNESS; WIND TURBINE ROTORS;

COMPOSITE STRUCTURES; CRACKS; FATIGUE CRACK PROPAGATION; GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; HARDWARE; LOADING; STATISTICAL TESTS; STATISTICS; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; WIND TURBINES;

HELICOPTER ROTORS;

EID: 84878097421     PISSN: 14759217     EISSN: 17413168     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1475921712471414     Document Type: Article

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