Prognostic control to enhance offshore wind turbine operations and maintenance strategies

European Wind Energy Conference and Exhibition 2012, EWEC 2012

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 479-491

  Griffith, D Todd ^a   Yoder, Nathanael ^b   Resor, Brian ^a   White, Jonathan ^a   Paquette, Joshua ^a   Ogilvie, Alistair ^a   Peters, Valerie ^a  

^a ATA Engineering Inc   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Damage mitigation; Damage simulation; O M; Operational measurements; Operations and maintenance; Prognostic control; Structural health monitoring; Trailing edge disbond

Indexed keywords

CONDITION BASED MAINTENANCE; DAMAGE MITIGATION; DAMAGE SIMULATION; DISBOND; OFF-SHORE WIND ENERGY; OPERATION AND CONTROL; OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE; STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING (SHM);

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSTS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; EXHIBITIONS; OFFSHORE WIND TURBINES; STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT; WIND POWER;

MAINTENANCE;

EID: 84884365965     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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