Reliability-based design of wind-turbine rotor blades against failure in ultimate loading

Engineering Structures

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 565-574

  Ronold, Knut O ^a   Larsen, Gunner C ^b  

^a DNV GL   (Norway)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Code calibration; partial safety factors; Structural reliability; Ultimate loading; Wind climate; Wind turbines

Indexed keywords

BENDING (DEFORMATION); FAILURE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES; RELIABILITY; SAFETY FACTOR; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL LOADS; WIND TURBINES;

PARTIAL SAFETY FACTORS; STRUCTURAL RELIABILITY; ULTIMATE LOADING;

TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

DESIGN; FAILURE; ROTOR; WIND TURBINE COMPONENT;

EID: 0034008597     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0141-0296(99)00014-0     Document Type: Article

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