Strength and reliability of wood for the components of low-cost wind turbines: Computational and experimental analysis and applications

Wind Engineering

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 183-196

  Mishnaevsky Jr , Leon ^a   Freere, Peter ^b,c   Sharma, Ranjan ^b   Brøndsted, Povl ^a   Qing, Hai ^a   Bech, Jakob I ^a   Sinha, Rakesh ^b   Acharya, Parash ^b   Evans, Robert ^d  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b Bhatti Danda   (Nepal)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL INVESTIGATION; DEFORMATION AND STRENGTH; EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS; LOW COST TESTING; LOW COSTS; MICROMECHANICAL MODEL; SERVICE PROPERTIES; SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS;

MICROSTRUCTURE; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES; WOOD;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

MICROSTRUCTURE; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; STRENGTH; WIND TURBINE; WOOD;

MICROSTRUCTURE; QUALITY CONTROL; RELIABILITY; TURBINES; WIND; WOOD;

EID: 77954415174     PISSN: 0309524X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1260/030952409789141062     Document Type: Article

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