Application of measured loads to wind turbine fatigue and reliability analysis

35th Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages

  Veers, Paul S ^a   Winterstein, Steven R ^b  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; CYCLIC LOADS; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FRACTURE MECHANICS; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; WIND; WIND TURBINES;

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS; DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS; FATIGUE LIFE ESTIMATES; MOMENTS OF THE DISTRIBUTION; PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS; REGRESSION TECHNIQUES; RELIABILITY ESTIMATES; WIND SPEED DISTRIBUTION;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84983165300     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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