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Danish engineers lay the concrete foundation for modern wind turbine tests

The larger the wind turbines, the more the test benches, ensuring the quality of gearboxes, wings, and nacelles, have to stand against.

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Subsupplier aims to shave time off wind turbine testing

At R&D Test Systems we want to minimize the time-to-market of new wind turbines. During the next few years, we aim at rendering time-consuming testing and saving customers' sums used on repairs.

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Dual Axis Exciter

Offshore wind turbine testing – an investment to save millions

With specialized testing, wind turbine manufacturers can reduce time to market and identify potential weaknesses resulting in failure, downtime, and expensive repairs that can cost even more than 100,000 euros a day.

Wind power plant

Research finds measuring and maintaining correct bolt tension extends the lifetime of wind turbines

The Bolt-Check tool developed by R&D was part of university study on wind turbine life extension; Anniversary of Germany’s Renewable Energy Act (EEG) poses challenge to operate 20-year-old wind turbines economically

Flemming Selmer Nielsen, Bolt-Check

Passion for safety leads to Eureka moment invention of wind turbine bolt-tension inspection tool

The idea came like a bolt from the blue in the middle of the night.

Bolt-Check measuring tool

Danish-designed inspection tool for wind turbine bolts cuts tensioning maintenance time in half

The Bolt-Check tool reduces preventative maintenance time, resulting in service cost reductions while maximizing uptime; Reduced health and safety costs.

Bolts wind turbine

Which of the many ways to tension wind turbine bolts in service is most accurate, quickest and cost-efficient?

Wind turbines typically contain more than 6,000 bolts. The inspection of the larger critical bolts is required at regular intervals – these inspections are time consuming and therefore expensive, and often the results obtained can vary, depending on the actual inspection method.

Technology Development

R&D refines the design of our EUDP funded Test Bench Foundation project

R&D is ready with a new and optimized conceptual framework, with several improvements.

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