The development of a fatigue loading spectrum for small wind turbine blades

Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 207-223

  Epaarachchi, Jayantha A ^a   Clausen, Philip D ^b  

^a CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Rainflow counting; Weibull analysis; Wind data

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION; WIND;

FATIGUE LOADING; RAINFLOW COUNTING; WEIBULL ANALYSIS; WIND SPEED MEASUREMENT;

WIND TURBINES;

AERODYNAMICS; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION; WIND; WIND TURBINES;

EID: 33645105567     PISSN: 01676105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jweia.2005.12.007     Document Type: Article

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