A new structural-dynamics module for offshore multimember substructures within the wind turbine computer-aided engineering tool fast

Proceedings of the International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 383-391

  Song, Huimin ^a   Damiani, Rick ^a   Robertson, Amy ^a   Jonkman, Jason ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beam finite element; Dynamic reduction; Multimember; Offshore; State space; Support structure; Wind turbine

Indexed keywords

BEAM FINITE ELEMENTS; DYNAMIC REDUCTION; MULTIMEMBER; OFFSHORE; SUPPORT STRUCTURES;

COMPUTER AIDED ENGINEERING; DYNAMICS; GROUND SUPPORTS; MODULAR CONSTRUCTION; OFFSHORE WIND TURBINES; STATE SPACE METHODS; TOOLS; WIND TURBINES;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 84883703418     PISSN: 10986189     EISSN: 15551792     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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