Fiber-optical grating sensors for wind turbine blades: A review

Optical Engineering

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Glavind, Lars ^a,b   Olesen, Ib Svend ^b   Skipper, Bjarne Funch ^a   Kristensen, Martin ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Fiber applications; Fiber optical sensors; Gratings

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL INTERFERENCE; FATIGUE FAILURES; FIBER APPLICATIONS; FIBER-OPTICAL SENSORS; LONG PERIOD GRATINGS; MAINTENANCE COST; STRUCTURAL MEASUREMENTS; WIND TURBINE BLADES;

CURVE FITTING; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; OPTICAL SENSORS; TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

WIND TURBINES;

EID: 84879570608     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.OE.52.3.030901     Document Type: Review

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