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  • Engineering
  • Data Science
  • Structural Health Monitoring

Background:

  • Structural health monitoring (SHM) is crucial for wind-turbine foundations to ensure safety and efficiency.
  • Early damage detection in these structures prevents catastrophic failures and optimizes maintenance.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a data-driven pattern recognition methodology for classifying damage in wind-turbine foundations.
  • To validate the proposed methodology through experimental testing on a scaled wind-turbine foundation model.

Main Methods:

  • Data acquisition using vibration-response methodology with accelerometers.
  • Data preprocessing including normalization and linear feature extraction via Principal Component Analysis (PCA).
  • Classification using an Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) machine learning model with 5-fold cross-validation.

Main Results:

  • Reduced 58,008 features to 21 using PCA, significantly simplifying the dataset.
  • Achieved classification performance exceeding 99.9% accuracy across healthy and damaged structural states.
  • Successfully validated the methodology on a small-scale wind-turbine foundation subjected to simulated environmental perturbations.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed data-driven methodology is highly effective for damage classification in wind-turbine foundations.
  • The integration of PCA and XGBoost offers a robust and accurate solution for structural health monitoring.
  • This approach significantly enhances the reliability and safety of wind-turbine infrastructure.