Reliability-based design of wind turbine blades

Structural Safety

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 333-342

  Toft, Henrik Stensgaard ^a   Sørensen, John Dalsgaard ^a,b  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Blade; Partial safety factors; Reliability; Stochastic models; Uncertainties; Wind turbine

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN STATISTICS; BLADE; DESIGN PROCESS; DETERMINISTIC DESIGN; FATIGUE LIMIT STATE; LIMIT STATE EQUATIONS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHODS; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; PARTIAL SAFETY FACTOR; PARTIAL SAFETY FACTORS; PROBABILISTIC FRAMEWORK; RELIABILITY BASED DESIGN; UNCERTAINTIES; WIND TURBINE BLADES;

DESIGN; EQUATIONS OF STATE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; RELIABILITY; SAFETY FACTOR; STATISTICAL TESTS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WIND TURBINES;

TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

EID: 80555123086     PISSN: 01674730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.strusafe.2011.05.003     Document Type: Article

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