Predicting design wind turbine loads from limited data: Comparing random process and random peak models

20th 2001 ASME Wind Energy Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Fitzwater, LeRoy M ^a   Winterstein, Steven R ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; RANDOM PROCESSES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WIND POWER;

EXTREME LOADS; PROBABILITY MODELING; PROBABILITY MODELS; RELIABILITY-BASED; ROTATING BLADES; SHORT TERM LOADS; TURBINE DESIGNS; WIND TURBINE LOADS;

WIND TURBINES;

EID: 85087606184     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2001-46     Document Type: Conference Paper

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