Health assessment and management of wind turbine blade based on the fatigue test data

With the quality problem becoming increasingly prominent, it is necessary to assess and manage the health condition of the wind turbine blade. The health degree is defined and calculated by the Grey Relation (GR) model to assess the health condition of the wind turbine blade quantitatively. The availability, reliability and artificial test result are taken as three indexes of the health degree. The availability is defined according to the stiffness degradation affected by the environmental temperature. Based on the health assessment results, after determining the decision objectives and the management strategies, the weights of the decision objectives and the health management decision are determined by the Analytic Hierarchy Process and Fuzzy (AHP-Fuzzy) decision method. This process is shown in a practical example of the 3 MW wind turbine blade. As a result, an approach and a certain theoretical guidance for the health assessment and management of wind turbine blade are proposed.