Wind turbine blade structural health monitoring dataset
DOI10.5281/zenodo.13692213Zenodo13692213MaRDI QIDQ6700888FDOQ6700888
Dataset published at Zenodo repository.
Pawel Kudela, Paul Sieber, E. N. Chatzi, Rohan Soman
Publication date: 5 September 2024
Copyright license: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
The dataset is related to a unique experiment conducted at ETH Zurich in collaboration with the Institute of Fluid Flow Machinery, Polish Academy of Sciences. The synchronisation between fatigue loading and guided wave excitation and sensing is unique. The dataset can be used to construct and test damage indexes for structural health monitoring. The tests were carried out on a Sonkyo Windspot 3.5 kW wind turbine blade equipped with strain gauges, a thermocouple, and five piezoelectric transducers. One piezoelectric transducer was used for Hann windowed sine excitation whereas the remaining piezoelectric transducers were used as sensors. The fatigue loading was induced by using a 1 kN capable Tira shaker. The fatigue program is explained in the readme.txt file and involves overloading the blade with a crane up to the blade's failure. The shaker was excited by a sine signal of frequency around the first resonant frequency of the wind turbine blade. The synchronisation with guided wave excitation was realised during three characteristic moments: (1) at maximum amplitude of sine, (2) at zero crossing, and (2) at the minimum amplitude of sine. This stage of the experiment is called 'dynamic' for short, and the data is stored in respective 'raw' folders. After each set of 1000 cycles, the shaker was stopped until the blade stopped vibrating. Then another set of guided wave measurements was taken at the blade's rest position. This stage of the experiment is called 'static' for short, and the data is stored in respective 'average' folders. It contains signals averaged over 10 measurements. During the whole process strain as well as temperature were measured. Three files are included for data visualization: (1) 'plot_strain_temperature.m', (2) 'read_plot_static.m', and (3) 'read_plot_dynamic.m'. These are MATLAB scripts showing how to load data and visualize the dependence of strains and temperatures on fatigue cycle number or time, plot exemplary signals of guided waves, and construct a damage index for structural health monitoring of the wind turbine blade. The details of experimental setup can be found in the paper.
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