Wind turbine blades suffer from relatively high failure rates resulting in long downtimes. The motivation of this research is to improve the reliability of wind turbine blades via non-destructive evaluation (NDE) for the early warning of faults and condition-based maintenance. Failure in wind turbine blades can be categorised as three types of major defect in carbon fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP), which are cracks, delaminations and impact damages. To detect and characterise those defects in their early stages, this work proposes eddy current pulsed thermography (ECPT) NDE method for...
Wind turbine blades suffer from relatively high failure rates resulting in long downtimes. The motivation of this research is to improve the reliabili...