Optoelectronics Letters, Volume. 20, Issue 2, 83(2024)

Research on wind turbine blade damage based on pre-stressed FBG strain sensors

Yujie CAI1...2,3, Zhiquan YANG2,*, Bihua ZHANG3 and Yufeng WEI3 |Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1Faculty of Land Resources Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650093, China
  • 2Faculty of Public Safety and Emergency Management, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650093, China
  • 3Beijing FBGTECH Optic Electric Technology Co., Ltd., Beijing 100043, China
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    One of the essential parts of a wind power generator that captures wind energy is the wind turbine blade. The safety of the blades rapidly declines as a wind turbine's operating period grows. For real-time monitoring, a chip-type pre-stressed fiber Bragg grating (FBG) strain sensor was fabricated. The sensor's structure was improved using simulation analysis along with optimization. It was discovered through calibration trials that the pre-stressing method expanded the sensor's range of measurement, guaranteed overall linearity, and prevented the potential hysteresis phenomena during compression. The sensor's final sensitivity was calculated to be 1.970 pm/με, and its linear fitting coefficient was 0.999. Finally, the sensor was used to monitor the wind turbine blades and the strain change curve of the root of a normally functioning blade is found to be a sine curve, which provides a certain reference value for judging whether the blade is damaged in the future.

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    CAI Yujie, YANG Zhiquan, ZHANG Bihua, WEI Yufeng. Research on wind turbine blade damage based on pre-stressed FBG strain sensors[J]. Optoelectronics Letters, 2024, 20(2): 83

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    Paper Information

    Received: May. 16, 2023

    Accepted: Aug. 9, 2023

    Published Online: Jul. 24, 2024

    The Author Email: Zhiquan YANG (yzq1983816@kust.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1007/s11801-024-3093-6

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