Safety-factor calibration for wind turbine extreme loads

Wind Energy

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 601-612

  Moriarty, Patrick ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Extreme events; Loads extrapolation; Safety factor

Indexed keywords

EXTRAPOLATION; WIND TURBINES;

CRITICAL COMPONENT; DIRECT OBSERVATIONS; EXTRAPOLATION METHODS; EXTREME EVENTS; LOADS EXTRAPOLATION; MEAN AND STANDARD DEVIATIONS; TURBINE DESIGNERS; WIND TURBINE LOADS;

SAFETY FACTOR;

CALIBRATION; DESIGN; MODELING; PREDICTION; SAFETY; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 56749169506     PISSN: 10954244     EISSN: 10991824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/we.306     Document Type: Article

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