Recent advances in damage detection of wind turbine blades: A state-of-the-art review

P Kaewniam, M Cao, NF Alkayem, D Li… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Wind turbine structures are key components for modern transformation into free energy and
greener environment. In recent years, a rapid growth in the development and installation of …

An artificial neural network methodology for damage detection: Demonstration on an operating wind turbine blade

A Movsessian, DG Cava, D Tcherniak - Mechanical Systems and Signal …, 2021 - Elsevier
This study presents a novel artificial neural network (ANN) based methodology within a
vibration-based structural health monitoring framework for robust damage detection. The …

Active vibration-based structural health monitoring system for wind turbine blade: Demonstration on an operating Vestas V27 wind turbine

D Tcherniak, LL Mølgaard - Structural Health Monitoring, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
This study presents a structural health monitoring system that is able to detect structural
defects of wind turbine blade such as cracks, leading/trailing-edge opening, or delamination …

Structural health monitoring under environmental and operational variations using MCD prediction error

M Mousavi, AH Gandomi - Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a novel technique that aims at detecting the effect of damage on
structural frequency signals as “bad” outliers. To this end, a procedure is developed based …

An experimental study on the data-driven structural health monitoring of large wind turbine blades using a single accelerometer and actuator

D García, D Tcherniak - Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 2019 - Elsevier
The study aimed to investigate the performance of a Structural Health Monitoring (SHM)
methodology based on use of a single accelerometer and single actuator in the detection …

A case study on risk-based maintenance of wind turbine blades with structural health monitoring

JS Nielsen, D Tcherniak… - Structure and Infrastructure …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The paper presents a case study demonstrating the methods used to estimate the value of
the information (VoI) delivered by a structural health monitoring (SHM) system. The …

Monitoring onsite‐temperature prediction error for condition monitoring of civil infrastructures

M Mousavi, AH Gandomi… - Structural Control and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
An inverse input–output method is proposed for long‐term condition monitoring of civil
infrastructures through monitoring the prediction error of air temperature recorded at the site …

Remaining useful life (RUL) prediction of internal combustion engine timing belt based on vibration signals and artificial neural network

M Khazaee, A Banakar, B Ghobadian… - Neural Computing and …, 2021 - Springer
Timing belt rupture, which can develop quickly and cause severe harm to various engine
components, usually occurs unexpectedly and without prior warning signs. Due to the rapid …

Subspace‐based Mahalanobis damage detection robust to changes in excitation covariance

S Greś, M Döhler, P Andersen… - Structural Control and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In the context of detecting changes in structural systems, several vibration‐based damage
detection methods have been proposed and successfully applied to both mechanical and …

Addressing practicalities in multivariate nonlinear regression for mitigating environmental and operational variations

C Roberts, DG Cava… - Structural Health …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
A significant problem associated with the implementation of Vibration-Based Structural
Health Monitoring (VSHM) systems originates from the detrimental effects caused by …