Modelling system failures to optimise wind turbine maintenance

Wind Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 503-522

  Andrawus, Jesse A ^a   Watson, John ^a   Kishk, Mohammed ^a  

^a ROBERT GORDON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Availability and maintenance optimisation; Failure modelling; Reliability; Wind turbine

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; ENGINES; ESTIMATION; FARMS; LIFE CYCLE; MAINTENANCE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; TURBINES; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

AVAILABILITY AND MAINTENANCE OPTIMISATION; CRITICAL COMPONENTS; DATA SAMPLES; DESIGN AND SIMULATION; FAILURE CHARACTERISTICS; FAILURE MODELLING; FIELD FAILURE DATA; HORIZONTAL AXIS WIND TURBINE; MAINTENANCE ACTIVITIES; MAINTENANCE CREW; OPTIMAL MAINTENANCE; OPTIMISATION; RELIABILITY; RELIABILITY , AVAILABILITY AND MAINTAINABILITY; RELIABILITY BLOCK DIAGRAMS; SYSTEM FAILURES; TOTAL LIFE; TURBINE MAINTENANCE; WEIBULL; WIND FARMS; WIND TURBINE;

MAINTAINABILITY;

ESTIMATION METHOD; MAINTENANCE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; MODELING; OPTIMIZATION; WEIBULL THEORY; WIND FARM; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 48649091984     PISSN: 0309524X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1260/030952407784079717     Document Type: Article

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