Offshore wind turbine risk quantification/evaluation under extreme environmental conditions

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 115, Issue , 2013, Pages 19-32

  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

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

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; OFFSHORE WIND TURBINES; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AUTOMATED ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; MOVING LEAST SQUARES; PROBABILISTIC SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; PROBABILISTIC UNCERTAINTY; RESPONSE SURFACE APPROXIMATION; RISK ASSESSMENT TOOL; STOCHASTIC SIMULATIONS;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84875146742     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2013.02.003     Document Type: Article

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