Hu, Zhen; Du, Xiaoping - In: Renewable Energy 48 (2012) C, pp. 251-262
Reliability is an important element in the performance of hydrokinetic turbines. It is also a driving factor of the … system lifetime cost. In this paper, we perform time-dependent reliability analysis for the blades of a river … strength of the material. The upcrossing rate method is employed to calculate the time-dependent reliability of the …