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Integration of acoustic wireless technology in structural health monitoring (SHM) applications introduces new challenges due to requirements of high sampling rates, additional communication bandwidth, memory space, and power resources. In order to circumvent these challenges, this chapter proposes a novel solution through building a wireless SHM technique in conjunction with acoustic emission (AE) with field deployment on the structure of a wind turbine. This solution requires a low sampling rate which is lower than the Nyquist rate. In addition, features extracted from aliased AE signals instead of reconstructing the original signals on-board the wireless nodes are exploited to monitor AE events, such as wind, rain, strong hail, and bird strike in different environmental conditions in conjunction with artificial AE sources. Time feature extraction algorithm, in addition to the principal component analysis (PCA) method, is used to extract and classify the relevant information, which in turn is used to classify or recognise a testing condition that is represented by the response signals. This proposed novel technique yields a significant data reduction during the monitoring process of wind turbine blades.
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Bouzid, O.M., Tian, G.Y., Cumanan, K., Neasham, J. (2015). Wireless AE Event and Environmental Monitoring for Wind Turbine Blades at Low Sampling Rates. In: Shen, G., Wu, Z., Zhang, J. (eds) Advances in Acoustic Emission Technology. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 158. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1239-1_50
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