Research and Applications in Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation – Zingoni (Ed.)
© 2013 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-00061-2
Structural health monitoring for life-cycle estimation of on-shore
wind energy converters
R. Höffer, D. Hartmann, S. Lachmann, X. Liu & K.R. Leimbach
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering Sciences, Germany
ABSTRACT: The necessity for service and health monitoring for the detection of damages of the structure
of wind energy converters (WEC) is science-based as the main hypothesis of this paper. A modern monitoring
concept is explained and a damage detection methodology by system identification is adopted. The sensor
instrumentation at a reference wind energy con ...