A review of non-destructive testing on wind turbines blades

FPG Márquez, AMP Chacón - Renewable Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Wind energy, with an exponential growth in the last years, is nowadays one of the most
important renewable energy sources. Modern wind turbines are bigger and complex to …

In-situ condition monitoring of wind turbine blades: A critical and systematic review of techniques, challenges, and futures

S Sun, T Wang, F Chu - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Blades are critical components in wind turbines (WTs) for power generation, and condition
monitoring (CM) of WT blades is a crucial and challenging issue under operating conditions …

A review of the concept, applications and implementation issues of terahertz spectral imaging technique

A Bandyopadhyay, A Sengupta - IETE Technical Review, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Simultaneous spectral and spatial information of any object investigated through
electromagnetic radiation leads to the concept of spectral imaging technique (SIT): in …

Sapphire waveguides and fibers for terahertz applications

GM Katyba, KI Zaytsev, IN Dolganova… - Progress in Crystal …, 2021 - Elsevier
Sapphire shaped crystals are considered as a favorable material platform of the terahertz
(THz) waveguide and fiber optics. Unique physical properties of sapphire, along with …

Nondestructive testing of defects in polymer–matrix composite materials for marine applications using terahertz waves

ME Ibrahim, D Headland… - Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Fibreglass components employed in the marine environment are susceptible to moisture
ingress, resulting in a degradation of mechanical properties. The nondestructive testing and …

Enhancing automatic inspection and characterization of carbon fiber composites through hyperspectral diffuse reflection analysis and k-means clustering

A Mahmoud, M Kassem, A Elrewainy… - … International Journal of …, 2024 - Springer
Numerous industries utilize carbon fiber composites (CFC) for their exceptional strength-to-
weight ratio and stiffness. However, inherent manufacturing defects such as voids and …

Continuous wave terahertz imaging for NDT: Fundamentals and experimental validation

FB Costa, MA Machado, GJ Bonfait, P Vieira… - Measurement, 2021 - Elsevier
Continuous wave terahertz (CW THz) imaging, is a variant of terahertz imaging that has
been gaining scientific and technological relevance in multiple areas. In this paper the …

Hyperbolic metamaterial structures based on graphene for THz super-resolution imaging applications

S Hao, J Wang, I Fanayev, S Khakhomov… - Optical Materials …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
The diffraction limit of light due to the loss of evanescent waves that carry high spatial
frequency information in the far field restricts the practical applications of terahertz imaging …