Objective Wind energy is a fast growing (>20% pa) industry worldwide and European companies have two-thirds of the share, according to European Wind Energy Association. Due to the increase in wind farms, new techniques are required to provide maintenance and inspection of the wind installations with reduced cost and enhanced reliability. It is estimated that the business opportunity for wind turbine blade inspection is at least €1bn per annum, and is increasing rapidly.In the DashWin project, a novel non-contact NDT system will be developed. It will consist of an advanced shearography kit and a robotic deployment platform. The system will be able to inspect the composite wind turbine blades (WTB) on-site without dismantling the blades, so that the degradation of WTB due to fatigue or natural incidents can be found before a breakdown or catastrophic failure occurs which is significantly better than existing systems.Objectives:• Develop a novel shearographic system able to inspect WTB on-site without dismantling the blades. This will be the first time that a shearography system is used for inspecting a WTB in-service at a wind energy installation.The proposed concept and system is not limited to NDT of rotating WTBs, and can be extended to inspect other dynamic structures with large rigid body motion.• Develop a wavefront splitter and/or a compact spatial carrier mask to achieve simultaneous spatial phase shifting.• Integrate the shearography system with a robotics platform to carry out on-site inspections.• Develop a comprehensive software package for image processing, automatic phase compensation, result interpretation and information storage.• Validate the reliability of the new system and associated opto-mechanical set-ups through a stringent field trial test. System assembly and potential manufacturing routes will also be established.• Develop and validate a new procedure for conducting regular inspection of WTB using the new robotic shearography system. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwareengineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energywind powerengineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringrobotics Programme(s) FP7-SME - Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs Topic(s) SME-2011-1 - Research for SMEs Call for proposal FP7-SME-2011 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme BSG-SME - Research for SMEs Coordinator TWI LIMITED Address Granta park great abington CB21 6AL Cambridge United Kingdom See on map Region East of England East Anglia Cambridgeshire CC Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Kerry Peddar (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window EU contribution No data Participants (9) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all BS ROTOR TECHNIC GMBH & CO KG Participation ended Germany EU contribution € 1 885,50 Address Ringstrasse 14 37154 Northeim See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Jeremy Sheppard (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data INNORA PROIGMENA TECHNOLOGIKA SYSTIMATA KAI YPIRESIES AE Greece EU contribution € 264 092,58 Address Ioannoy metaxa 59 19400 Koropi attikis See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Panagiotis Chatzakos (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data MICROTEST SA Spain EU contribution € 198 417,80 Address Calle valle de tobalina nave 10 28021 Madrid See on map Region Comunidad de Madrid Comunidad de Madrid Madrid Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Miguel López (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data PRO-OPTICA S.A. 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