Titel short: Ultimate Strength of a large WT-blade The present work contains a study of the structural static strength of wind turbine blades. A combination of experimental and numerical work has been used to address the most critical failure mechanims and to get an understanding of the complex structural behaviour of wind turbine blades....

Traditionally, acoustics has formed one of the fundamental branches of physics. In the twentieth century, the field has broadened considerably and become increasingly interdisciplinary....

Provides a comprehensive account of the fundamental principles underlying different methods, ranging from the classical to the sophisticated. This book focuses on calculating molecular structures and (relative) energies and less on molecular properties or dynamical aspects....

Government debt management has a long tradition, dating back more than two centuries in some European countries. Since the late 1980?s, however, many OECD governments have invested heavily in improving the quality of their debt management practices....

Probabilistic graphical models and decision graphs are powerful modeling tools for reasoning and decision making under uncertainty....

Bayesian networks and decision graphs are formal graphical languages for representation and communication of decision scenarios requiring reasoning under uncertainty. Their strengths are two-sided. It is easy for humans to construct and to understand them, and when communicated to a computer, they can easily be compiled....