DASHWIN
Development of Advanced Shearography System for On-Site Inspection of Wind Turbine Blades
| Coordinatore | TWI LIMITED
Organization address
address: Granta Park, Great Abington contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | United Kingdom [UK] |
| Totale costo | 1˙380˙130 € |
| EC contributo | 1˙085˙100 € |
| Programma | FP7-SME
Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs |
| Code Call | FP7-SME-2011 |
| Funding Scheme | BSG-SME |
| Anno di inizio | 2011 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2011-10-01 - 2014-05-31 |
Partecipanti
| # | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
TWI LIMITED
Organization address
address: Granta Park, Great Abington contact info |
UK (CAMBRIDGE) | coordinator | 106˙072.00 |
| 2 |
INNORA PROIGMENA TECHNOLOGIKA SYSTIMATA KAI YPIRESIES AE
Organization address
address: IOANNOY METAXA 59 KARELAS 59 contact info |
EL (KOROPI ATTIKIS) | participant | 264˙092.58 |
| 3 |
BS ROTOR TECHNIC (UK) LTD
Organization address
address: TWYFORD contact info |
UK (CROFTON HIGHFIELD) | participant | 225˙165.40 |
| 4 |
PRO-OPTICA S.A.
Organization address
address: 67 Gheorghe Petrascu street contact info |
RO (BUCHAREST) | participant | 224˙259.50 |
| 5 |
MICROTEST SA
Organization address
address: CALLE VALLE DE TOBALINA NAVE 10 contact info |
ES (MADRID) | participant | 198˙417.80 |
| 6 |
INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE LIMITED - INNOTECUK
Organization address
address: HILDERSHAM ROAD NORTH WING THE OLD LIVERY contact info |
UK (CAMBRIDGE) | participant | 35˙325.86 |
| 7 |
KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN
Organization address
address: Oude Markt 13 contact info |
BE (LEUVEN) | participant | 14˙934.94 |
| 8 |
RWE NPOWER PLC
Organization address
address: Trigonos Windmill Hill Buisiness Park Whitehill Way contact info |
UK (SWINDON WILTSHIRE) | participant | 10˙000.00 |
| 9 |
INNORA PROIGMENA TECHNOLOGIKA SYSTIMATA KAI YPIRESIES ETERIA PERIORISMENIS EFTHYNIS (EPE)
Organization address
address: ILIADOS STR 7 contact info |
EL (HALANDRI ATHINA) | participant | 4˙946.42 |
| 10 |
BS ROTOR TECHNIC GMBH & CO KG
Organization address
address: RINGSTRASSE 14 contact info |
DE (NORTHEIM) | participant | 1˙885.05 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
'Wind energy is a fast growing (>20% pa) industry worldwide and European companies have two-thirds of the share, according to European Wind Energy Association. Due to the increase in wind farms, new techniques are required to provide maintenance and inspection of the wind installations with reduced cost and enhanced reliability. It is estimated that the business opportunity for wind turbine blade inspection is at least €1bn per annum, and is increasing rapidly.
In the DashWin project, a novel non-contact NDT system will be developed. It will consist of an advanced shearography kit and a robotic deployment platform. The system will be able to inspect the composite wind turbine blades (WTB) on-site without dismantling the blades, so that the degradation of WTB due to fatigue or natural incidents can be found before a breakdown or catastrophic failure occurs which is significantly better than existing systems.
Objectives: • Develop a novel shearographic system able to inspect WTB on-site without dismantling the blades. This will be the first time that a shearography system is used for inspecting a WTB in-service at a wind energy installation. The proposed concept and system is not limited to NDT of rotating WTBs, and can be extended to inspect other dynamic structures with large rigid body motion. • Develop a wavefront splitter and/or a compact spatial carrier mask to achieve simultaneous spatial phase shifting. • Integrate the shearography system with a robotics platform to carry out on-site inspections. • Develop a comprehensive software package for image processing, automatic phase compensation, result interpretation and information storage. • Validate the reliability of the new system and associated opto-mechanical set-ups through a stringent field trial test. System assembly and potential manufacturing routes will also be established. • Develop and validate a new procedure for conducting regular inspection of WTB using the new robotic shearography system.'