Remote surface damage detection on rotor blades of operating wind turbines by means of infrared thermography

Traphan, Dominik; Herráez, Iván; Meinlschmidt, Peter; Schlüter, Friedrich; Peinke, Joachim; Gülker, Gerd

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-3-639-2018

Articles | Volume 3, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-3-639-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-3-639-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 3, issue 2

Research article

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13 Sep 2018

Research article |

| 13 Sep 2018

Remote surface damage detection on rotor blades of operating wind turbines by means of infrared thermography

Dominik Traphan, Iván Herráez, Peter Meinlschmidt, Friedrich Schlüter, Joachim Peinke, and Gerd Gülker

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'wes-2018-22_Commented_By_Xiao_Chen', Xiao Chen, 10 May 2018
- AC1: 'response to referee comments', Dominik Traphan, 06 Jul 2018
- AC3: 'revised manuscript', Dominik Traphan, 06 Jul 2018
RC2: 'Referee comments', Anonymous Referee #2, 04 Jun 2018
- AC2: 'response to referee comments', Dominik Traphan, 06 Jul 2018
- AC4: 'revised manuscript', Dominik Traphan, 06 Jul 2018

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Dominik Traphan on behalf of the Authors (07 Jul 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (20 Jul 2018) by Mingming Zhang

AR by Dominik Traphan on behalf of the Authors (30 Jul 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (09 Aug 2018) by Mingming Zhang

ED: Publish as is (19 Aug 2018) by Jakob Mann (Chief editor)

AR by Dominik Traphan on behalf of the Authors (23 Aug 2018) Manuscript

Short summary

Wind turbines are exposed to harsh weather, leading to surface defects on rotor blades emerging from the first day of operation. Defects grow quickly and affect the performance of wind turbines. Thus, there is demand for an easily applicable remote-inspection method that is sensitive to small surface defects. In this work we show that infrared thermography can meet these requirements by visualizing differences in the surface temperature of the rotor blades downstream of surface defects.