Abstract: Abstract Wind energy has become an increasingly desirable and viable renewable energy source in recent years. However, wind energy faces a number of challenges, one of them being risks to public safety from wind turbine failures. This paper provides an analysis as a first step towards integrating wind turbine failures with public safety risks. In this paper, an existing Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) of wind turbines is expanded to include wind turbine failures that could be linked to public safety risks. The paper combines knowledge from literature...
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Topics: 
Risk analysis (engineering)
Reliability engineering
Forensic engineering