Applications of matched field processing to damage detection in composite wind turbine blades

Jeffery D. Tippmann; Francesco Lanza di Scalea

doi:10.1117/12.2084461

23 March 2015 Applications of matched field processing to damage detection in composite wind turbine blades

Jeffery D. Tippmann, Francesco Lanza di Scalea

Proceedings Volume 9438, Health Monitoring of Structural and Biological Systems 2015; 94380H (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2084461
Event: SPIE Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, 2015, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

There are many structures serving vital infrastructure, energy, and national security purposes. Inspecting the components and areas of the structure most prone to failure during maintenance operations by using non- destructive evaluation methods has been essential in avoiding costly, but preventable, catastrophic failures. In many cases, the inspections are performed by introducing acoustic, ultrasonic, or even thermographic waves into the structure and then evaluating the response. Sometimes the structure, or a component, is not accessible for active inspection methods. Because of this, there is a growing interest to use passive methods, such as using ambient noise, or sources of opportunity, to produce a passive impulse response function similar to the active approach. Several matched field processing techniques most notably used in oceanography and seismology applications are examined in more detail. While sparse array imaging in structures has been studied for years, all methods studied previously have used an active interrogation approach. Here, structural damage detection is studied by use of the reconstructed impulse response functions in ambient noise within sparse array imaging techniques, such as matched-field processing. This has been studied in experiments on a 9-m wind turbine blade.

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Jeffery D. Tippmann and Francesco Lanza di Scalea "Applications of matched field processing to damage detection in composite wind turbine blades", Proc. SPIE 9438, Health Monitoring of Structural and Biological Systems 2015, 94380H (23 March 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2084461

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