Wind Turbine Blade Nondestructive Testing with a Transportable Radiography System

الملخص EN

Wind turbines are becoming widely used as they are an environmentally friendly way for energy production without emissions; however, they are exposed to a corrosive environment.

In addition, as wind turbines typically are the tallest structures in the surrounding area of a wind farm, it is expected that they will attract direct lightning strikes several times during their operating life.

The purpose of this paper is to show that the radiography with a transportable unit is a solution to find defects in the wind turbine blade and reduce the cost of inspection.

A transportable neutron radiography system, incorporating an Sb–Be source, has been simulated using the MCNPX code.

The simulated system has a wide range of radiography parameters.