Design loads for wind turbines using the environmental contour method

Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 128, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 554-561

  Saranyasoontorn, Korn ^a   Manuel, Lance ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CONTOUR (EC); LOAD VARIABLES; TURBINE RESPONSE SIMULATIONS; TURBULENCE INTENSITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTOUR MEASUREMENT; EXTRAPOLATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SET THEORY; STATISTICAL METHODS; WIND TURBINES;

STRUCTURAL LOADS;

EID: 33845572331     PISSN: 01996231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2346700     Document Type: Article

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