Acoustic Emission Attenuation and Source Location of Resin Matrix for Wind Turbine Blade Composites

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In recent years, acoustic emission (AE) testing technology is the one of the most important non-destructive testing (NDT) methods. The characteristics can be described by AE signals, including the location, nature and severity. In order to obtain the basic data for monitoring the wind turbine blade composite structure, the experiment adopted Φ0.5 mm lead pencil as artificial acoustic emission source and measured AE parameters, attenuation and source location of resin matrix for wind turbine blade. This paper introduced linear location and two-dimensional positioning technology of time arrival location method about the burst AE signal. The result shows that the location of AE source basically reflects the location of stimulation AE source, the location of AE source for resin matrix can agree well with the simulated location of AE source, the more close to the middle area, the more accurate location.

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Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 912-914)

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36-39

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April 2014

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