Abstract: This paper presents the results of a Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) conducted for wind turbine (WT) systems. The FMEA was performed on the functional modes of WT sub-systems in order to understand its performance of each sub-system, and to identify weaknesses in the respective sub-systems of WT considered. Sensitivity analysis had been done to investigate the cross-spreading of unreliability between sub-systems in the WT and a ranking of critical subassemblies was prepared on the basis of data supplied by experts that took part in the...
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Topics: 
Reliability engineering
Systems engineering