The future of wind energy industry passes through the use of larger and more flexible wind turbines in remote locations, which are increasingly offshore to benefit stronger and more uniform wind conditions. Cost of operation ...

The value of wind power generation for energy sustainability in the future is undeniable. Since operation and maintenance activities take a sizeable portion of the cost associated with offshore wind turbines operation, ...

Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) are, in general, more robust than finite elements for large distortion problems. Nevertheless, updating the reference configuration may be necessary in some problems involving extremely ...

Every physical actuator is subject to saturation. It has been well recognized that, when the actuator saturates, the performance of the closed-loop system (designed without considering actuator saturation) may seriously ...

This work presents a simple damage detection strategy for wind turbine blades. In particular, a vibration analysis-based damage detection methodology is proposed that requires only healthy data and detects damage in different ...

The future of the wind energy industry passes through the use of larger and more flexible wind turbines in remote locations, which are increasingly offshore to benefit stronger and more uniform wind conditions. The cost ...

This work addresses the problem of online fault detection of an advanced wind turbine benchmark under actuators (pitch and torque) and sensors (pitch angle measurement) faults of different type. The fault detection scheme ...

This paper addresses the problem of online fault detection of an advanced wind turbine benchmark under actuators (pitch and torque) and sensors (pitch angle measurement) faults of different type: fixed value, gain factor, ...

A structural health monitoring (SHM) system verifies the mechanical state of a structure toensure its proper functioning and determines whether it needs some kind of maintenance. Thus, SHMfor wind turbines (WT) in remote ...