Risk assessment and sensitivity analysis for offshore wind turbines

Proceedings of the International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 479-486

  Taflanidis, Alexandros A ^a   Loukogeorgaki, Eva ^b   Angelides, Demos C ^b  

^a University of Notre Dame   (United States)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Offshore wind turbines; Probabilistic uncertainty; Risk assessment; Sensitivity analysis; Stochastic simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; DYNAMIC BEHAVIORS; MOVING LEAST SQUARES; OFFSHORE WIND TURBINES; PROBABILISTIC UNCERTAINTY; RESPONSE SURFACE APPROXIMATION; RISK ASSESSMENT FRAMEWORK; STOCHASTIC INTEGRAL; STOCHASTIC SIMULATIONS; SUPPORT STRUCTURES; SURROGATE MODELING; WAVE CONDITIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; RATING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; WIND TURBINES;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 80052713624     PISSN: 10986189     EISSN: 15551792     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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