Journal
STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL
Volume 16, Issue 1, Pages 79-96Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/1475921716663876
Keywords
Wind turbine blade; structural health monitoring; statistical damage detection; modal damage detection; power spectral density; vector ARX
Funding
- China Scholarship Council (CNC) [201206370030]
- Albert Luck Foundation
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Structural health monitoring offers an attractive tool for condition assessment, fault prognosis and life-cycle management of wind turbine components. However, owing to the intense loading conditions, geometrical nonlinearities, complex material properties and the lack of real-time information on induced structural response, damage detection and characterization of structural components comprise a challenging task. This study is focused on the problem of damage detection for a small-scale wind turbine (Sonkyo Energy Windspot 3.5 kW) experimental blade. To this end, the blade is dynamically tested in both its nominal (healthy) condition and for artificially induced damage of varying types and intensities. The response is monitored via a set of accelerometers; the acquired signals serve for damage detection via the use of appropriate statistical and modal damage detection methods. The former rely on extraction of a characteristic statistical quantity and establishment of an associated statistical hypothesis test, while the latter rely on tracking of damage-sensitive variations of modal properties. The results indicate that statistical-based methods outperform modal-based ones, succeeding in the detection of induced damage, even at low levels.
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