THIN/PROBEAM : A software for fatigue design and analysis of composite rotor blades

Wind Engineering

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 349-362

  Philippidis, T P ^a   Vassilopoulos, A P ^a   Katopis, K G ^b   Voutsinas, S G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; LAMINATED COMPOSITES; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NUMERICAL METHODS; RESIDUAL STRESSES; ROTORS; SHEAR STRESS; STRESS ANALYSIS; WIND TURBINES;

CLASSICAL LAMINATION THEORY (CLT); COMPOSITE ROTOR BLADES;

TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

ANALYSIS; BLADES; FATIGUE; WIND TURBINES;

EID: 0030390133     PISSN: 0309524X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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