Max Botz, Ph.D., M.Sc.

 

Completed Dissertation - 2022

Structural Health Monitoring of the supporting structure for wind turbines

Teaching

Teaching assistant in the field of non-destructive testing in civil and mechanical engineering

Focus of Research

• Structural-Health-Monitorung
• Continuous monitoring of structures
• Structural dynamics
• Modalanalyse

Research Project

MISTRALWind: Monitoring and Inspection of Structures At Large Wind Turbines. Überwachung und Inspektion von Tragstrukturen von Windenergieanlagen

Supervised Student Activities

• Experimentelle Schwingungsanalyse zur Dauerüberwachung von Tragstrukturen von Windkraftanlagen (Masterarbeit)
• Entwicklung eines Konzepts für das Structural-Health-Monitoring von Tragstrukturen von Windkraftanlagen (Semesterarbeit)
• Monitoring von Windkraftanlagen: Positionsmessung mit Beschleunigungssensoren (Semesterarbeit)

Publications

ORCID ID

Botz M, Emiroglu A, Osterminski K, Raith M, Wüchner R, Grosse CU. (2020). Überwachung und Modellierung der Tragstruktur von Windenergieanlagen: Beitrag zu einem Digitalen Zwilling, Beton- und Stahlbetonbau, Vol. 115, Issue 3, pp 342-354,  DOI: 10.1002/best.202000001

Botz M, Raith M, Emiroglu A, Grosse CU. (2017). Monitoring of Wind Turbine Structures using Stationary Sensors and Short-term Optical Techniques, 11th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (IWSHM), Stanford, CA, USA

Botz M, Zhang Y, Raith M, Pinkert K. (2017). Operational Modal Analysis of a Wind Turbine during Installation of Rotor and Generator, 7th International Operational Modal Analysis Conference (IOMAC), Ingolstadt, Germany

Geiss CT, Kinscherf S, Decker M, Romahn S, Botz M, Raith M, Wondra B, Grosse CU, Osterminski K, Emiroglu A, Bletzinger K-U, Obradovic D, Wever U. (2017). The Mistralwind Project—Towards a Remaining Useful Lifetime Analysis and Holis-tic Asset Management Approach for More Sustainability of Wind Turbine Structures. 11th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (IWSHM), Stanford, CA, USA

Wondra B, Botz M, Grosse CU. (2016). Wireless monitoring of structural components of wind turbines including tower and foundations. The Science of Making Torque from Wind (TORQUE 2016), IOP Publishing, Journal of Physics: Conference Series 753, doi:10.1088/1742-6596/753/7/072033.

Botz M, Oberlaender S, Raith M, Grosse CU. (2016). Monitoring of Wind Turbine Structures with Concrete-steel Hybrid-tower Design, 8th European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (EWSHM), Bilbao, Spain.