Parametric models for estimating wind turbine fatigue loads for design

20th 2001 ASME Wind Energy Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Manuel, Lance ^a   Veers, Paul S ^b   Winterstein, Steven R ^c  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT LOADS; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TURBULENCE; WIND; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

ANNUAL DISTRIBUTIONS; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS; LONG-TERM DISTRIBUTION; SHORT-TERM DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MOMENTS; TURBULENCE INTENSITY; WIND SPEED DISTRIBUTION;

WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 85086619121     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2001-47     Document Type: Conference Paper

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