Development of a methodology for service lifetime prediction of renewable energy devices

ASTM Special Technical Publication

Volumn 1294, Issue , 1996, Pages 173-189

  Kim, Hag Min ^a   Jorgensen, Gary J ^a   King, David E ^a   Czanderna, A W ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Lifetime prediction; Probability models; Renewable energy devices; Silvered polymeric reflectors; Stress Performance time approach

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ENVIRONMENTAL TESTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PERFORMANCE; PROBABILITY; SERVICE LIFE; SOLAR ENERGY; STRESSES; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WEATHERING;

RENEWABLE ENERGY DEVICES; SERVICE LIFETIME PREDICTION; SILVERED POLYMERIC REFLECTORS;

MIRRORS;

EID: 0030196804     PISSN: 00660558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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