The effect of load phase angle on wind turbine blade fatigue damage

Collection of ASME Wind Energy Symposium Technical Papers AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 45-53

  White, Darris ^a   Musial, Walt ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL ENERGY CONCEPT (GEC); LINEAR DAMAGE ANALYSIS; PHASE ANGLE;

AGGREGATES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; FATIGUE TESTING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

WIND TURBINES;

EID: 3142724607     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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