Design of wind turbines in an area with tropical cyclones

• Main Authors: Clausen, Niels-Erik, Ott, Søren, Tarp-Johansen, Niels-Jacob, Nørgard, Per, LARsen, Xiaoli Guo, Pagalilawan, Edmund M., Hernando, Samuel D.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2006
• Subjects: Wind turbines—Design and construction; Civil Engineering
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/7320
• Institution: De La Salle University

The lifetime and cost of wind turbines is influenced by a combination of fatigue and extreme loads and the applied design codes. In general wind turbines are designed for 20 years of operation using design standards which are based largely on European conditions. In areas with tropical cyclones appl...