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JOURNAL OF WIND ENGINEERING AND INDUSTRIAL AERODYNAMICS
Volume 92, Issue 10, Pages 789-804Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jweia.2004.04.002
Keywords
wind turbine; reliability; extreme load; flapwise bending moment
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The reliability of wind turbines against extreme loads is the focus of this study. A procedure to establish nominal loads for use in a conventional load-and-resistance-factor-design format is presented. The procedure, based on an inverse reliability approach, permits inclusion of randomness in the gross wind environment as well as in the extreme response given wind conditions. A detailed example is presented where three alternative nominal load definitions are used to estimate extreme bending loads for a 600 kW three-bladed horizontal-axis wind turbine. Only operating loads-here, flapwise (out-of-plane) bending moments-at a blade root are considered but the procedure described may be applied to estimate other loads and response measures of interest in wind turbine design. Results suggest that a full random characterization of both wind conditions and short-term maximum response (given wind conditions) will yield extreme design loads that might be approximated reasonably well by simpler models that include only the randomness in the wind environment but that account for response variability by employing appropriately derived higher-than-median fractiles of the extreme bending load conditional on inflow parameter values. (C) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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