Fragility analysis of steel and concrete wind turbine towers

Engineering Structures

Volumn 36, Issue , 2012, Pages 270-282

  Quilligan, A ^a   O'Connor, A ^a   Pakrashi, V ^b  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Concrete; Flapwise vibration; Fragility curves; Lagrangian; Modal analysis; Steel; Wind turbine towers

Indexed keywords

CONCRETE TOWERS; ESSENTIAL COMPONENT; FLAPWISE VIBRATION; FRAGILITY ANALYSIS; FRAGILITY CURVES; LAGRANGIAN; LAGRANGIAN APPROACHES; LIMIT STATE; MW WIND TURBINE; NUMERICAL MODELS; PROBABILISTIC CHARACTERISTICS; RELATIVE PERFORMANCE; TURBINE ASSEMBLY; WIND LOADING; WIND SPEED; WIND TURBINE TOWERS;

CONCRETES; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MODAL ANALYSIS; STEEL; TURBINE COMPONENTS; WIND TURBINES;

TOWERS;

CONCRETE STRUCTURE; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; STEEL STRUCTURE; WIND; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 84855816770     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2011.12.013     Document Type: Article

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