A SMART software package for maintenance optimisation of offshore wind turbines

Wind Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 569-577

  Sinha, Yashwant ^a   Steel, John A ^a   Andrawus, Jesse A ^a   Gibson, Karen ^b  

^a ROBERT GORDON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Stork Technical Services   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Knowledge base; Maintenance database; Offshore Wind Turbine; Operation and maintenance; Optimisation; Software tool; Standardised maintenance procedure

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE BASE; MAINTENANCE DATABASE; MAINTENANCE PROCEDURES; OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE; OPTIMISATIONS;

COMMERCE; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; CONDITION MONITORING; COSTS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; OFFSHORE WIND FARMS; OFFSHORE WIND TURBINES; OPTIMIZATION; SOFTWARE PACKAGES; TOOLS;

MAINTENANCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAINTENANCE; NUMERICAL MODEL; POWER GENERATION; SOFTWARE; STOCHASTICITY; WIND FARM; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 84888173413     PISSN: 0309524X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1260/0309-524X.37.6.569     Document Type: Article

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