Defect distribution and reliability assessment of wind turbine blades

Engineering Structures

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 171-180

  Toft, Henrik Stensgaard ^a   Branner, Kim ^b   Berring, Peter ^b   Sørensen, John Dalsgaard ^a,b  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Defects; Delamination; Probabilistic methods; Reliability; System effects; Wind turbine blades

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN STATISTICS; DEFECT DISTRIBUTION; DIFFERENT SIZES; NONDESTRUCTIVE INSPECTION; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; PROBABILISTIC METHODS; PRODUCTION PROCESS; RANDOMLY DISTRIBUTED; RELIABILITY ASSESSMENTS; SYSTEM EFFECTS; WIND TURBINE BLADES;

DEFECTS; DELAMINATION; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; STEEL SHEET; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

DEFECT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 78649446837     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2010.10.002     Document Type: Article

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