Month: March 2020

  • Wind turbine blade damage detection systems

    Wind turbine blades are rarely subject to catastrophic failures, although you can find a bunch of videos on YouTube with blades flying away or falling into pieces. They are however subject to several problems, such as cracks, debonding of the various layers, internal delamination, etc. As an order of magnitude blade failures are accountable for…

  • Taking over – it really matters

    One of most the relevant milestones in the life of a wind farm is the taking over. It happens when the contractual requirements for the wind farm are considered fulfilled by the subcontractor, except for smaller items that are noted in a “punch list” and have to be fixed as soon as possible. The requirements…