Comparison of strength and load-based methods for testing wind turbine blades

35th Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages

  Musial, Walter D ^a   Clark, Melissa E ^a   Egging, Nathaniel ^a   Zuleck, Michael D ^b  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b MDZ Consulting   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; FATIGUE DAMAGE; FATIGUE TESTING; LOAD TESTING; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; WIND TURBINES;

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS; CONSTANT AMPLITUDE; CRITICAL LOCATION; EQUIVALENT DAMAGE; HOT/WET ENVIRONMENTS; OPERATING ENVIRONMENT; STRENGTH CRITERIA; WIND TURBINE BLADES;

TURBINE COMPONENTS;

EID: 84982318665     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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