An assessment of structural design guidelines for offshore wind turbines

Proceedings of the International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering - OMAE

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages 563-570

  Saigal, Rakesh K ^a   Dolan, Dan ^a   Der Kiureghian, Armen ^b   Camp, Tim ^c   Smith, Charles E ^d  

^a THORNTON TOMASETTI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c DNV GL   (Norway)

^d MINERALS MANAGEMENT SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OFFSHORE WIND FARMS; OFFSHORE WIND TURBINE SUPPORT STRUCTURES; OFFSHORE WIND TURBINES; WIND POWER RESOURCES;

CRUDE PETROLEUM; OFFSHORE STRUCTURES; POWER GENERATION; WIND POWER;

WIND TURBINES;

EID: 37149002441     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/OMAE2007-29629     Document Type: Conference Paper

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