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Detecting damages for wind turbine blades based on Chebyshev polynomial approximation and uniform load surface curvature
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Yi Liu 1,3
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College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou 325035, PR China
 
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Key Laboratory of Equipment Monitoring and Intelligent Operation and Maintenance under Extreme Working Conditions in the Province, Zhejiang, PR China
 
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School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin, P.R.China
 
These authors had equal contribution to this work
 
 
Submission date: 2024-12-24
 
 
Final revision date: 2025-02-11
 
 
Acceptance date: 2025-05-01
 
 
Online publication date: 2025-05-22
 
 
Publication date: 2025-05-22
 
 
Corresponding author
Naige Wang   

Wenzhou University, China
 
 
 
HIGHLIGHTS
  • An reliable and effective method for detecting WT blade damage method is proposed.
  • It reduces the requirements for the number of measurement points and modal order.
  • The process is applied to NREL 5MW WT blade and achieved high-order accuracy result.
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Wind turbine blades are among the most critical components of a wind turbine. Cracking is the most prevalent type of the WT blades damage, making it essential to develop methods for early detection and precise assessment of crack locations and severity. This paper proposes a novel method based on uniform load surface (ULS) curvature variation for determining the damage location in wind turbine blades. The Chebyshev polynomial is utilized instead of the central difference method to calculate ULS curvature. This method only needs the first-order natural frequency of the WT blade to detect the damage of the WT blade, and the numerical simulation results show that its calculation accuracy has low requirements on the number of measurement points. An experimental platform was established to collect modal data and a model updating technique was employed to adjust the simulation model parameters. Consequently, this method enhances the traditional modal curvature approach, offering a more comprehensive and reliable technique for structural health monitoring of wind turbine blades.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The authors are grateful to the support of National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 52005373 and 12202318), the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (LQ21E050002) ,Wenzhou Municipal Science and Technology Bureau, China (No. G2020014), and Innovation Project of Guangxi Graduate Education(YCBZ2023135).
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