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Publications

2014

  • M. McGugan, G. Pereira, B. F. Sørensen, H. Toftegaard and K. Branner,
    Damage Tolerance And Structural Monitoring For Wind Turbine Blades,
    PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A (Under Press)
  • Pereira, G. F., Mikkelsen, L. P., & McGugan, M. (2014),
    Damage tolerant design: failure and crack propagation in composites.
    In Proceedings of 10th EAWE PhD Seminar on Wind Energy in Europe. (pp. 1-5). European Academy of Wind Energy. (Oral Presentation)
  • Pereira, G. F., Mikkelsen, L. P., & McGugan, M. (2014),
    FEM model of Embedded Fibre Bragg Grating Sensor Response: Crack Growing Detection,
    In Proceedings NAFEMS NORDIC- Simulation Verification and Validation (V&V): A Key Enabler for Virtual Product Development, 3 – 4 November 2014, Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • Horcas, S. G., di Lorenzo, E., Martinez, J., Mehdi, R., Mehta, D., Pereira, G. F., & Soman, R. (2014),
    MARE-WINT: New Materials and Reliability in Offshore Wind Turbines Technology,
    In Proceedings of 10th EAWE PhD Seminar on Wind Energy in Europe. (pp. 192-195). European Academy of Wind Energy. (Poster)

2013

  • E. Di Lorenzo, S. Manzato, B. Peeters, H. Van der Auweraer - Virtual assessment of damage detection techniques for operational wind turbine – Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Condition Monitoring of Machinery in Non-Stationary Operations (CMMNO 2013), Ferrara, Italy, May 2013
  • E. Di Lorenzo, S. Manzato, B. Peeters, H. Van der Auweraer – Virtual structural monitoring of wind turbines using Operational Modal Analysis techniques – Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Damage Assessment of Structures (DAMAS 2013), Dublin, Ireland, July 2013
  • E. Di Lorenzo, S. Manzato, B. Peeters - Virtual assessment of structural health monitoring techniques for wind turbines using vibration data – Proceedings of 9th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (IWSHM 2013), Stanford, CA, USA, September 2013
  • E. Di Lorenzo, S. Manzato, J. Houben, F. Vanhollebeke, B. Peeters, WIND TURBINE GEARBOX DYNAMIC CHARACTERIZATION USING OPERATIONAL MODAL ANALYSIS, abstract submitted for IMAC 2014 (Orlando, USA)
  • E. Di Lorenzo, S. Manzato, B. Peeters, F. Marulo, STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING TECHNIQUES APPLIED TO OPERATING WIND TURBINES, abstract submitted for EURODYN 2014 (Porto, Portugal)
  • Review Paper on Large Eddy Simulation for Wind Farm Aerodynamics, co-authored by TU Delft and TU Eindhoven. In draft, will be submitted in September, 2013 to Wind Energy. 'pdf' can be provided after submission.
  • Habilitation Marcin Luczak, IMP PAN index ZN559/1518/2013, IDENTIFICATION OF THE INFLUENCE OF VARIABILITY OF DYNAMIC PARAMETER MEASUREMENTS IN COMPOSITE STRUCTURES ON THE ACCURACY OF NUMERICAL MODEL UPDATING WITH UNCERTAIN PARAMETERS“, 2013
  • Marcin Luczak, Simone Manzato, Maciej Kahsin, Dariusz Potok, Maciej Rozycki, Dominik Sporna, Bart Peeters, In-service measurement of the small wind turbine test stand for structural health monitoring, Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Damage Assessment of Structures (DAMAS 2013), Dublin, Ireland, July 2013
  • D. Mehta, A.H. van Zuijlen, B. Koren, J.G. Holierhoek and H. Bijl, LES for Wind Farm Aerodynamics: Developments and Contributions, Review article submitted to Wind Energy (2013)

Conferences

Conferences

2015 (Accepted)

  • European Wind Energy Association Offshore- EWEA 2015, Copenhagen, Denmark, 10-12 March 2015: Very Large wind turbine rotor blades require damage tolerance and damage monitoring, B. Sorenson, H. Toftegaard, M. Mcgugan, G.Pereira, K. Branner, (Poster Presentation- Main event.)
  • European Wind Energy Association Offshore- EWEA 2015, Copenhagen, Denmark, 10-12 March 2015: Condition monitoring of composite material and bondlines in wind turbine blades: Failure and crack propagation; G. Pereira, L. Mikkelsen, M. McGugan; (Poster Presentation-Main event, Oral Presentation in Side event.)
  • Photoptics 2015- 3rd Internation Conference on photonics, Optics and Laser Technology, 13-15 March, 2015 Berlin, Germany, Crack Growth Monitoring by Embedded Optical Fibre Bragg Grating Sensors, Pereira, G. F., Mikkelsen, L. P., & McGugan, M., (Oral Presentation)
  • 11th International Conference on Damage Assessment of Structures- DAMAS, Ghent University, Belgium  24-26 August 2015- Embedded Fibre Bragg Grating Sensor Response Model: Crack Growing Detection, G. Pereira, L. Mikkelsen, M. McGugan, (Oral Presentation)

2015 (Submitted)

  • 20th International Conference on Composite Materials in Copenhagen, 19-24 July 2015: Structural Health Monitoring Method for Wind Turbine Trailing Edge: Crack Growth Detection Using Fibre Bragg Grating Sensor Embedded in Composite Materials , G. Pereira, L. Mikkelsen, M. McGugan, (Submited)

2013

  • 3rd International Conference on Condition Monitoring of Machinery in Non-Stationary Operations (CMMNO 2013), Ferrara, Italy, May 2013
  • 10th International Conference on Damage Assessment of Structures (DAMAS 2013), Dublin, Ireland, July 2013
  • 9th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (IWSHM 2013), Stanford, CA, USA, September 2013
  • IFASD conference, June 24-26, 2013, Bristol

  • Pending:
    • IMAC 2014 (Orlando, USA)
    • EURODYN 2014 (Porto, Portugal)
    • Wind Energy 2013.
    • DAMAS2015 (Gent, Belgium)
    • ISMA2014 (Leuven, Belgium)

Presentations

Presentations

2013

  • Poster Presentation to nearly 100 PhD students at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, TU Delft (March 2013)
  • Poster Presentation as part of TU Delft's Energy Initiative, to 25 participants and a jury comprising academic staff (April, 2013)
  • V. Leble, Offshore wind turbines, Presentation to the School of Engineering, PhD Seminar Presentations, University of Liverpool, June 2013.
  • IMP PAN presentation, May 22nd, 2013.
  • Extension of the Non-Linear Harmonic method to flow computations around moving and deforming structures, IFASD conference, June 24-26, 2013, Bristol
  • G. Pereira, M. Nielsen and M. McGugan, Improvements of strain measurements with FBG sensors embedded in unidirectional composits, 1st International Workshop on EMBEDDED OPTICAL SENSORS FOR COMPOSITE MATERIALS, Ghent, October 2013 www.amiando.com/STODYGS.html

Other dissemination activities

Other dissemination activities

  • TU Delft, a poster and a proposal to supervise a master's student as part of the ECN PhD project

Outreach activities

Outreach activities

  • November 6, 2012: KU Leuven Europe Day
  • November 26, 2012: KU Leuven/LMS Day of Science
  • March 26, 2013: KU Leuven labcafe
  • May 26, 2013: XIV Science Picnic in Gdynia.
    The aim of the Festival is to promote the themes and achievements of scientific research and bringing them to the public in as understandable and attractive, to develop curiosity and joy of learning.
  • Presentation at the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions in Horizon 2020 - Cyprus Presidency Conference, November 5-6, 2012
  • Panel discussion participation on the training of PhD’s at the 1st International Workshop on EMBEDDED OPTICAL SENSORS FOR COMPOSITE MATERIALS, Ghent, October 2013
  • January 27-31, 2014, KU Leuven is participating with a lecture in the Workshop on Distribution of Energy and Wind-energy which is set up within the TEMPUS Energy project

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