Wind Turbine Blade Nondestructive Testing with a Transportable Radiography System | Zendy

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Wind Turbine Blade Nondestructive Testing with a Transportable Radiography System

Author(s) -

J. G. Fantidis,

C. Potolias,

D. V. Bandekas

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

science and technology of nuclear installations

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417

H-Index - 24

eISSN - 1687-6083

pISSN - 1687-6075

DOI - 10.1155/2011/347320

Subject(s) - turbine , nondestructive testing , turbine blade , wind power , engineering , neutron imaging , blade (archaeology) , range (aeronautics) , marine engineering , radiography , nuclear engineering , environmental science , structural engineering , mechanical engineering , neutron , aerospace engineering , electrical engineering , medicine , physics , quantum mechanics , radiology

Wind turbines are becoming widely used as they are an environmentally friendly way for energy production without emissions; however, they are exposed to a corrosive environment. In addition, as wind turbines typically are the tallest structures in the surrounding area of a wind farm, it is expected that they will attract direct lightning strikes several times during their operating life. The purpose of this paper is to show that the radiography with a transportable unit is a solution to find defects in the wind turbine blade and reduce the cost of inspection. A transportable neutron radiography system, incorporating an Sb–Be source, has been simulated using the MCNPX code. The simulated system has a wide range of radiography parameters

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