Moog Insensys Limited

Philip Mark Rhead

Mark Volanthen

Glynn David Lloyd

Martin Peter William Jones

A system for the structural monitoring of bladeson a wind turbine. Each bladehas respective optical fiber bragg grating sensors. The system has a number of input connectors, which connect to the strain sensorsof respective blades. A single output connector connects to a data processing devicewhich processes signals from the strain sensors. The input connectors each have a signal path to the output connector that is different in length to the signal path from the other input connectors, such that signals from a given bladecan be identified at the data processing deviceby the time of arrival of the signals. The system has the advantage that the each of the blades, including the sensors attached to it or embedded within it can be identical and therefore interchangeable.

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Southampton, United Kingdom

Philip Mark Rhead