Load models for Fatigue Reliability From Limited Data

Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 64-68

  Winterstein, S R ^a   Lange, C H ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; LOADS (FORCES); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

FATIGUE DAMAGE; FATIGUE RELIABILITY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; WEIBULL MODELS;

WIND TURBINES;

EID: 0030086555     PISSN: 01996231     EISSN: 15288986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2847953     Document Type: Article

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