Cycle Range Distributions for Gaussian Processes Exact and Approximative Results

Extremes

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 69-89

  Lindgren, Georg ^a,c   Bertram Broberg, K ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c Dept of Electroscience   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Crest trough waves; Max min waves; Rainflow cycles; Random fatigue; Spectral density; Stationary Gaussian process; Wave period distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 17544372839     PISSN: 13861999     EISSN: 1572915X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10687-004-4729-3     Document Type: Article

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