Wind turbines play an increasingly important role in renewable power generation. To ensure the efficient production and financial viability of wind power, it is crucial to maintain wind …
Blades play a vital role in wind turbine system performances. However, they are susceptible to damage arising from complex and irregular loading or even cause catastrophic collapse …
X Yang, Y Zhang, W Lv, D Wang - Renewable Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
An image recognition model based on a deep learning network is proposed for the automatic extraction of image features and the accurate and efficient detection of wind …
A complete surveillance strategy for wind turbines requires both the condition monitoring (CM) of their mechanical components and the structural health monitoring (SHM) of their …
W Wang, Y Xue, C He, Y Zhao - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
With global warming and the depletion of fossil energy sources, renewable energy is gradually replacing non-renewable energy as the main energy in the future. As one of the …
The scope of this article is to review the potential causes that can lead to wind turbine blade failures, assess their significance to a turbine's performance and secure operation and …
R Yang, Y He, H Zhang - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Wind energy is one of the fastest growing renewable energy resources. It is distinctly important to increase reliability and availability of wind turbines and further to reduce the …
B Le, J Andrews - Wind Energy, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents an asset model for offshore wind turbine reliability accounting for the degradation, inspection and maintenance processes. The model was developed based on …
To reduce Operation and Maintenance (O&M) expenditure on offshore wind farms, wherein 80% of the cost relates to deploying personnel, the offshore wind sector looks to advances in …