The trend in the offshore wind turbine industry is towards using wind turbines with more
energy harvesting capacity per unit and greater power per mass ratios to compete with other …

Wind energy has played an increasingly vital role in renewable power generation, driving
the need for more cost-effective wind energy solutions. Health monitoring of turbines could …

Offshore wind turbines are exposed to continuous wind and wave excitation. The monitoring
of high periodic strains at critical locations is important to assess the remaining lifetime of the …

An accurate estimation of dynamic loads and structural dynamic responses is deemed an
indispensable prerequisite for developing trustworthy digital twin (DT) models of dynamically …

Today, an important challenge for offshore wind energy is to design efficient and reliable
offshore wind turbines (OWTs). The overall damping of OWTs plays an important role in the …

Vibration damping in offshore wind turbines is a key parameter to predict reliably the
dynamic response and fatigue life of these systems. Damping in an offshore wind turbine …

Reliable predictions of the lifetime of offshore wind turbine structures are influenced by the
limited knowledge concerning the inherent level of damping during downtime. Error …

Offshore wind energy is an important renewable electricity source in the UK and Europe.
Monopiles are currently the most commonly used substructures to support offshore wind …

Structural health monitoring of towers for offshore wind turbines (OWTs) is critical because
they serve as support structures. Although the modal parameters of the tower can be …

In 2011 a first vibration monitoring system was installed on a single Belgian offshore wind
turbine to research the possibility to monitor the structural integrity of the wind turbines …