Offshore wind turbine maintenance access: A closed-form probabilistic method for calculating delays caused by sea-state

Wind Energy

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1049-1066

  Feuchtwang, Julian ^a   Infield, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

access delay; offshore maintenance; probability; sea state

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; MAINTENANCE; OCEAN CURRENTS; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; OFFSHORE WIND TURBINES; PROBABILITY; WIND POWER;

ACCESS DELAY; COMPONENT RELIABILITY; COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH; NUMERICAL TECHNIQUES; OFF-SHORE WIND ENERGY; PROBABILISTIC METHODS; PROBABILITY CALCULATIONS; SEA STATE;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA SET; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MAINTENANCE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PARAMETERIZATION; PROBABILITY; SEA STATE; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 84886098796     PISSN: 10954244     EISSN: 10991824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/we.1539     Document Type: Article

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