Influence of external conditions and vessel encounters on vessel behavior in ports and waterways using Automatic Identification System data

The impact of many external factors, such as wind, visibility and current, on the behavior of vessels in ports and waterways has not been investigated systematically in existing maritime traffic models. In order to fill the current knowledge gap and provide a basis for developing a new model to effectively simulate maritime traffic, the...

The determination of the extreme loads on wind turbines – some practical issues

The probabilistic method commonly applied to arrive at the ultimate loading is as follows: for several different mean wind speeds load simulations are performed. For each mean wind speed a conditional distribution can be fitted to the load maxima for that particular wind speed. The overall distribution of the load response is obtained by a...