Development of self-powered wireless structural health monitoring (SHM) for wind turbine blades

University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. January 2015. Major: Mechanical Engineering. Advisors: Professor Susan C. Mantell and Professor Peter J. Seiler. 1 computer file (PDF); viii, 137 pages, appendices A-D.

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