Risk assessment of wind turbines: Transition from pure mechanistic paradigm to modern complexity paradigm

Since wind turbines are instances of complex power generating systems consisting of several structural, electrical, and mechanical components interacting with human resource and organizational factors within natural, political, economic, and social environments, the proposed model is applied to assess risk and reliability in a wind turbine. Different scenarios of reliability analyses were investigated, which illustrated that Bayesian networks are effective for the reliability assessment of the chosen system and very useful for understanding the system behavior.