Importance of control strategies on fatigue life of floating wind turbines

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

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages 493-500

  Skaare, Bjørn ^a   Hanson, Tor David ^a   Nielsen, Finn Gunnar ^a  

^a STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEEP WATERS; FLOATING OFFSHORE WIND TURBINES; FLOATING WIND TURBINES; LOW COST FOUNDATIONS;

FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; MOORING; OCEAN CURRENTS; VISCOUS FLOW; WIND TURBINES;

WIND POWER;

EID: 37149049290     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/OMAE2007-29277     Document Type: Conference Paper

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