Quantification of condition monitoring benefit for offshore wind turbines

Wind Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 267-285

  McMillan, David ^a   Ault, Graham W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Condition monitoring; Markov chain; Monte Carlo; Operations and maintenance; Probabilistic model; Wind farms

Indexed keywords

CONDITION MONITORING; COST EFFECTIVENESS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

OFFSHORE WIND TURBINES; WIND FARM;

WIND TURBINES;

CONDITION MONITORING; COST EFFECTIVENESS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WIND TURBINES;

MARKOV CHAIN; MODELING; MONITORING SYSTEM; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; OFFSHORE APPLICATION; PROBABILITY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WIND FARM; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 39449096680     PISSN: 0309524X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1260/030952407783123060     Document Type: Article

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