Articles
What we see inside blades.
Plain technical writing on internal blade inspection: the defects that start on the inside, what a crawler can and cannot do, NDT methods, offshore campaigns, and what it takes to turn a finding into a decision. Written by the people who build the robots.
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Blade damage categories explained: one severity scale for drone, crawler and technician findings
What the five blade damage categories mean, why supplier scales differ, how internal findings fit a scale made for the shell, and how to keep one scale across a fleet.
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Commissioning and end-of-warranty inspections: what the inside of a new blade should look like
Why commissioning inspections must include the inside, what a new blade interior should look like, what commonly turns up, and how the baseline pays off at warranty end.
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Internal inspection with a crawler or a technician: coverage, time and cost per turbine
Technician entry or crawler: how far each gets, how long the turbine is stopped, what drives the cost per turbine, and when the technician is still the right choice.
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Matching inspection methods to blade failure modes
The failure modes that end blades, where each starts, what shows outside and inside, and which method sees it first: drone, crawler, electrical test, sensors or NDT.
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What an internal wind turbine blade inspection covers, and why most blades never get one
What an internal blade inspection looks at, why the inside matters more than the shell, how far a technician can get, and what a crawler changes.
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What to ask a blade inspection robot supplier: a buyer's checklist
Fourteen questions for any blade inspection robot supplier, what a good answer looks like, and why reach, lighting, position tagging and data ownership beat the camera.
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Wind turbine blade defects that start on the inside: a field guide
The internal blade defects an inspection should find: bond-line cracks, web debonding, wrinkles, delamination, core failures and water, and how each looks from inside.
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Blade inspection robots and crawlers: what they can and cannot do today
The kinds of blade inspection robot in use, what an internal crawler does that drones and rope access cannot, and the limits that still apply.
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NDT for wind turbine blades: which methods work inside the blade
NDT methods for blade composites, from visual and ultrasonic to thermography, shearography and laser scanning, and what each needs to work inside a blade in service.
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Offshore wind blade inspections: why access changes everything
What makes offshore blade inspection different: vessel time, weather windows, downtime, crew hours, and why a 15-minute internal capture per blade changes the economics.
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From inspection findings to asset decisions: what blade asset management software has to do
What separates a folder of inspection reports from asset condition intelligence: one record per finding, history over time, one severity scale, data the owner keeps.
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End-of-warranty blade inspections: what to look for inside before the warranty ends
Why the inside of the blade is where an end-of-warranty inspection pays off, which findings point to manufacturing, and what the record needs so a claim stands up.
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Lightning damage inside a wind turbine blade: what to inspect after a strike
Where lightning damage shows inside a blade: receptor connections, the down conductor, burnt laminate, moisture paths, and how to inspect the conductor after a strike.
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8K 360° video for internal blade inspection: what resolution, light and distance tagging change in review
Why an 8K 360° recording beats aimed photographs inside a blade: what the resolution means in millimetres, why side light finds cracks, what distance tagging adds.
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