ABSTRACT

The reliability of a wind turbine blade is in the present paper estimated for both out-of-plane and in-plane loading. The reliability estimation assumes that the blade is designed to the limit according to three different wind turbine design standards:

• IEC 61400-1 • Det Norske Veritas (DNV) • Germanischer Lloyd (GL)

In the present paper a probabilistic design approach to fatigue design of wind turbine blades is presented.