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Articles | Volume 10, issue 12
Articles | Volume 10, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-10-3001-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-10-3001-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 10, issue 12
Research article
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19 Dec 2025
Research article |  | 19 Dec 2025

On the potential of aerodynamic pressure measurements for structural damage detection

Philip Franz, Imad Abdallah, Gregory Duthé, Julien Deparday, Ali Jafarabadi, Xudong Jian, Max von Danwitz, Alexander Popp, Sarah Barber, and Eleni Chatzi

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New designs of large wind turbine blades have become increasingly flexible and thus need cost-efficient monitoring solutions. Hence, we investigate if aerodynamic pressure measurements from a low-cost sensing system can be used to detect structural damage. Our research is based on a wind tunnel study, emulating a simplified wind turbine blade under various conditions. We show that, when using a convolutional-neural-network-based method, structural damage can indeed be detected and its severity can be rated.
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