Publications

Publications

The following publications are authored and co-authored with friends and colleagues in various research contexts.

Please reach out if you need a copy of one or more of the papers.

Main author:

• S. F. Madsen and R. Baker: “Smart Sensing of Lightning Key Partameters in Wind Turbine Blades”, presented at the WT Blade manufacturing Conference’20, December, 2020
• S.F. Madsen: “Measuring lightning exposure for reducing wind blade operational cost”, presented at the Copenhagen Offshore ‘2019, November, 2019
• S.F. Madsen: “LPS design for CFRP Blades”, presented at the CWPC’2019, April, 2019
• S.F. Madsen: “Design and Verification Methods for Wind Turbines, ensuring Safe Operation during Lightning Exposure”, presented at the ISWL’2017, April, 2017
• S.F. Madsen, S. Vogel, J. Lopez. A.C. Garolera & K. Bertelsen: “ELITE – Enhanced Lightning Effects Testig Capabilities”, presented at the ICOLSE’2015, September, 2015
• S.F. Madsen and L. Carloni: “Lightning exposure of Carbon Fiber Composites in wind turbine blades”, presented at the NORDIS’2015, June, 2015
• S.F. Madsen, A.C. Garolera & K. Bertelsen: “Lightning Protection Zoning and Risk Exposure Assessment of Wind Turbines”, presented at the EWEA Offshore’2015, May, 2015
• S.F. Madsen, C.F. Mieritz & A.C. Garolera: “Numerical tools for lightning protection of wind turbines”, presented at the ICOLSE’2013, September, 2013
• S.F. Madsen, K. Bertelsen & B. Eiriksson: “Lightning verification tests for wind turbines”, presented at the ICOLSE’2013, September, 2013
  S.F. Madsen, K. Bertelsen & T.H. Krogh: “Lightning Protection as a natural part of wind turbine designs”, presented at the EWEA’2013, May, 2013
• S.F. Madsen, K. Bertelsen, T.H. Krogh, H.V. Erichsen, A.N. Hansen & K.B. Lønbæk: “Proposal of new zoning concept considering lightning protection of wind turbine blades”, presented at the Journal of Lightning Research, Volume 4, 2012
• S.F. Madsen & C.F. Mieritz: “Current distribution and magnetic fields in complex structures using FEM method”, presented at the ICOLSE’2011, September, 2011
• S.F. Madsen, K. Bertelsen & B. Eiriksson: “Current distribution verification during impulse current tests”, presented at the ICOLSE’2011, September, 2011
• S.F. Madsen, K. Bertelsen, T.H. Krogh, H.V. Erichsen, A.N. Hansen & K.B. Lønbæk: “Proposal of new zoning concept considering lightning protection of wind turbine blades”, presented at the ICLP’2010, September, 2010
• S.F. Madsen & Hans V. Erichsen: “Numerical model to determine lightning attachment point distributions on wind turbines according to the revised IEC 61400-24”, presented at the ICOLSE’2009, September, 2009
• S.F. Madsen & K. Bertelsen: “Mobile impulse current generator for verifying the lightning protection of wind turbines according to IEC 61400-24 (CDV)”, presented at the ICOLSE’2009, September, 2009
• S.F. Madsen & Hans V. Erichsen: “Improvement of numerical models to determine lightning attachment points on wind turbines”, presented at the ICLP’2008, June, 2008
• S.F. Madsen: “A new principle of measuring static electric fields using two floating electrodes”, presented at the ICOLSE’2007, September, 2007
• S.F. Madsen: “Interaction between electrical discharges and materials for wind turbine blades – particularly related to lightning protection”, PhD thesis, August, 2006
• S.F. Madsen, J. Holbøll, & M. Henriksen: “Direct relationship between breakdown strength and tracking index of composites”, presented at the ISEI’2006, September, 2006
• S.F. Madsen, J. Holbøll, M. Henriksen, K. Bertelsen & H.V. Erichsen: “New test method for evaluating the lightning protection system on wind turbine blades”, presented at the ICLP’2006, September, 2006
• S.F. Madsen: “Calculated temperature rise and thermal elongation of structural components, depending on action integral of the injected lightning currents”, presented at the ICOLSE’2005, September, 2005
• S.F. Madsen, J. Holbøll, M. Henriksen & J. Assentoft: “Experimental Investigation of the Relationship between Breakdown Strength and Tracking Characteristics of Composites”, presented at the NORDIS’2005, June, 2005
  S.F. Madsen, J. Holbøll, M. Henriksen & S. Krogh-Pedesen: “Breakdown tests of Composite Materials and the Importance of the Volume Effect.”, presented at the NORDIS’2005, June, 2005
• S.F. Madsen, J. Holbøll, M. Henriksen, F. M. Larsen, L. B. Hansen & K. Bertelsen: “Breakdown tests of Glass Fibre Reinforced Polymers (GFRP) as part of inmproved Lightning Protection of Wind Turbine Blades”, presented at the ISEI’2004, September, 2004
• S.F. Madsen, J. Holbøll, M. Henriksen & N. Bjaert: “Tracking tests of glass fibre reinforced polymers (GRP) as part of improve dlightning protection of wind turbine blades”, presented at the ICLP’2004, September, 2004

Co-author:

• T.M. Harrell, S.F. Madsen, O.T. Thomsen, J.M. Dulieu-Barton: “On the Effect of Dielectric Breakdown in UD CFRPs Subjected to Lightning Strike Using an Experimentally Vallidated Model”, presented at the Applied Composite Materials, March, 2022
• S. Vogel, A.C. Garolera, J. Lopez and S.F. Madsen: “Upward Lightning Exposure Assessment for Wind Power Plants in Low Altitude Thunderstorms using Comsol Multiphysics”, presented at the Comsol’2019, October, 2019
• L. Carloni, S.F. Madsen and H. Rosenberg: “HVDC Electrodes with ground or water return current impact assessment with Comsol 5.4 AC/DC module”, presented at the Comsol’2019, October, 2019
• Y. Mendez, S.F. Madsen, T.S. Sørensen, Y. Yasuda, J. Birkl, S. Yokohama, J.A. Plumer and K. Yamamoto: “An insight on the IEC 61400-24 Ed2: Lightning Protection of Wind Turbines”, presented at the SIPDA’2019, October, 2019
• J. Lopez, S. Vogel and S.F. Madsen: “Smart Sensing of Lightning Key Partameters in Wind Turbine Blades for Optimized Decision making in Operation”, presented at the ICOLSE’2019, September, 2019
• J. Lopez, S. Vogel and S.F. Madsen: “Correlation of Cloud Base Height and Electrical Damages associated to Static Electricity in Wind Turbine Blades”, presented at the ICOLSE’2019, September, 2019
• Y. Mendez, J. Birkl, S.F. Madsen, T.S. Sørensen, J.A. Plumer and J. Montanya: “The 2018 Revision of the Standard IEC 61400-24: Lightning Protection of Wind Turbines”, presented at the ICLP’2018, September, 2018
• O. Vryonis, T. Andritsch, S.F. Madsen, A.S. Vaughan and P.L. Lewin: “Graphene Oxide – Epoxy Resin Nanocomposites: A Potential Candidate for Improving Lightning Protection Systems of Wind Turbine Carbon Fibre Sparcaps”, presented at the ICOLSE’2017, September, 2017
• E.C. Senis, O. Vryonis, I.O. Golosnoy, J.M. Dulieu-Barton, O.T. Thomsen, L. Carloni and S.F. Madsen: “The Influence of Graphene Oxide on the electrical conduction in unidirectional CFRP laminates for wind turbine blade applications”, presented at the ICOLSE’2017, September, 2017
• T.M. Harrell, O.T. Thomsen, J.M. Dulieu-Barton, S.F. Madsen and L. Carloni: “Lightning protection of CFRP Wind Turbine Blades – What is the dominant Cause of Failure: Specific Energy or Charge?”, presented at the ICOLSE’2017, September, 2017
• E.C. Senis, I.O. Golosnoy, J.M. Dulieu-Barton, O.T. Thomsen and S.F. Madsen: “Characterization of through thickness thermal conductivity of wind turbine blade CFRP materials using a steady-state technique”, presented at the ICCM’2017, September, 2017
• T.M. Harrell, O.T. Thomsen, J.M. Dulieu-Barton, S.F. Madsen and L. Carloni: “Damage prediction of CFRP materials subjected to Lightning Strike”, presented at the ICCM’2017, September, 2017
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• S.F. Madsen: “Lightning Attachment Estimation to Wind Turbines by Utilizing Lightning Location systems”, presented at the ILDC’2016, May, 2016
• S. Vogel, J. Holbøll, J. Lopez, A.C. Garolera & S.F. Madsen: “European cold season lightning map for wind turbines based on radio soundings”, presented at the ICLP’2016, September, 2016
• S. Vogel, J. Lopez, A.C. Garolera, S.F. Madsen & J. Holbøll: “Lightning Location System Data from Wind Power Plants Compared to Meteorological Conditions of Warm- and Cold Thunderstorm Events”, presented at the CIGRE Colloquium on Lightning and Power Systems’2016, June, 2016
• A.C. Garolera, S. Vogel, J. Lopez, S.F. Madsen & K. Bertelsen: “Effect of local topography on lightning exposure of wind turbines”, presented at the ICOLSE’2015, September, 2015
• S. Vogel, J. Lopez, J. Holbøll, S.F. Madsen, A.C. Garolera & K. Bertelsen: “Numerical simulation of the effect of wind removing the corona space charge over grounded structures under thunderstorm conditions”, presented at the ICOLSE’2015, September, 2015
• K. Bertelsen, J. Lopez, S. Vogel and S.F. Madsen: “Enhanced lightning effects testing for optimized wind turbine reliability”, presented at the EWEA Offshore’2015, May, 2015
• A.C. Garolera, K.L. Cummins, S.F. Madsen, J. Holbøll & J.D. Myers: “Multiple Lightning Discharges in Wind Turbines Associated with Nearby Cloud-to-Ground Lightning”, presented at the IEEE Journal on XXX, , 2014
• A.C. Garolera, S.F. Madsen, M. Nissim, J.D. Myers & J. Holbøll: “Lightning Damage to Wind Turbine Blades from Wind Farms in U.S.”, presented at the IEEE Journal on XXX, , 2014
• J. Liu & S.F. Madsen: “Transient analysis of an earthing system during lightning strike exposure”, presented at the ICOLSE’2013, September, 2013
• T.H. Krogh, K. Bertelsen & S.F. Madsen: “Infraread detection of thermal beat development of isotropic and anisotropic materials during impulse current testing”, presented at the ICLP’2010, September, 2010
• H.V. Erichsen, S.F. Madsen & Kim Bertelsen: “Verification of the Safe stay in a Wind Turbine during Thunderstorms”, presented at the ICOLSE’2009, September, 2009
• K. Bertelsen, H.V. Erichsen & S.F. Madsen: “New high current test principle for wind turbine blades simulating the life time impact from lightning discharges”, presented at the ICOLSE’2007, September, 2007
• K. Bertelsen, H.V. Erichsen, M.V.R. Skov-Jensen & S.F. Madsen: “Application of numerical models to determine attachment points on wind turbines”, presented at the ICOLSE’2007, September, 2007
• J. Holbøll, S.F. Madsen, M. Henriksen, K. Bertelsen & H.V. Erichsen: “Discharge phenomena in the tip area of wind turbine blades and their dependency on material and environmental parameters”, presented at the ICLP’2006, September, 2006