Modal testing for validation of blade models

Wind Engineering

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 91-102

  Griffith, D Todd ^a   Carne, Thomas G ^a   Paquette, Joshua A ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLADE PERFORMANCE; CORRELATION TECHNIQUES; MAKING DECISION; MODAL TEST; MODAL TESTING; MODEL VALIDATION; PHYSICS-BASED MODELS; STRUCTURAL MODELS; TEST DATA; TEST DESIGNS; TEST PROGRAM; TEST RESULTS; TEST TECHNIQUES; WIND TURBINE BLADES;

MODAL ANALYSIS; MODEL STRUCTURES; WIND POWER;

TESTING;

DESIGN; MODEL VALIDATION; MODELING; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; TESTING METHOD; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 67650103450     PISSN: 0309524X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1260/030952408784815817     Document Type: Article

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