Active load control for wind turbine blades using MEM translational tabs

20th 2001 ASME Wind Energy Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Yen, Dora T ^a   van Dam, C P ^a   Smith, R L ^a   Collins, S D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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