Presentation
Characterization of waviness in wind turbine blades using air coupled ultrasonics
Center for Nondestructive Evaluation Conference Papers, Posters and Presentations
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Conference
Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation
Publication Date
7-1-2010
Geolocation
(32.7153292, -117.1572551)
Abstract
Waviness in glass fiber reinforced composite is of great interest in composite research, since it results in the loss of stiffness. Several NDE techniques have been used previously to detect waviness. This work is concerned with waves normal to the plies in a composite. Air‐coupled ultrasonics was used to detect waviness in thick composites used in the manufacturing of wind turbine blades. Composite samples with different wave aspect ratios were studied. Different wavy samples were characterized, and a three step process was developed to make sure the technique is field implementable. This gives us a better understanding of the effect of waviness in thick composites, and how it affects the life and performance of the composite.
Copyright Owner
American Institute of Physics
Copyright Date
2011
Language
en
Citation Information
Sunil Kishore Chakrapani, Vinay Dayal, David K. Hsu, Daniel J. Barnard, et al.. "Characterization of waviness in wind turbine blades using air coupled ultrasonics" San Diego, CA(2010) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/vinay_dayal/18/
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This article appeared in AIP Conference Proceedings 1335 (2011): 956–962 and may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3592041.