Timber for high efficiency small wind turbine blades

Wind Engineering

Volumn 28, Issue 1 SPEC. ISS., 2004, Pages 87-96

  Peterson, P ^a   Clausen, P D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; TIMBER;

HOOP PINE; WIND TURBINE BLADES;

WIND TURBINES;

BLADE; FATIGUE LIFE ANALYSIS; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 2942545813     PISSN: 0309524X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1260/0309524041210865     Document Type: Article

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