Concrete Structures for Wind Turbines Beton-Kalender Series
Auteurs : Grünberg Jürgen, Göhlmann Joachim
Directeurs de Collection : Bergmeister Konrad, Fingerloos Frank, Wörner Johann-Dietrich
This book gives a comprehensive overview for planning and structural design analysis of reinforced concrete and pre-stressed concrete wind turbine towers for both, onshore and offshore wind turbines. Wind turbines represent structures subjected to highly dynamic loading patterns. Therefore, for the design of loadbearing structures, fatigue effects - and not just maximum loads - are extremely important, in particular in the connections and joints of concrete and hybrid structures. There multi-axial stress conditions occure which so far are not covered by the design codes. The specific actions, the nonlinear behaviour and modeling for the structural analysis are explained. Design and verification with a focus on fatigue are adressed. The chapter Manufacturing includes hybrid structures, segmental construction of pre-stressed concrete towers and offshore wind turbine foundations.
Selected chapters from the German concrete yearbook are now being published in the new English "Beton-Kalender Series" for the benefit of an international audience.
Since it was founded in 1906, the Ernst & Sohn "Beton-Kalender" has been supporting developments in reinforced and prestressed concrete. The aim was to publish a yearbook to reflect progress in "ferro-concrete" structures until - as the book's first editor, Fritz von Emperger (1862-1942), expressed it - the "tempestuous development" in this form of construction came to an end. However, the "Beton-Kalender" quickly became the chosen work of reference for civil and structural engineers, and apart from the years 1945-1950 has been published annually ever since.
Actions on wind turbine towers
- Permanent actions
- Turbine operation (rotor and nacelle)
- Wind load
- Height of sea level
- Hydrodynamic environment conditions
- Hydrodynamic analysis
- Thermal actions
- Sea ice
- Icing of construction elements
Non-linear material behaviour
- General
- Material laws for reinforced and prestressed concrete
- Bending moment?curvature relationships
- Deformations and bending moments to second-order theory
- Cross section design ultimate limit state
- Three-dimensional mechanical models for concrete
Support structure and design analysis
- Basis of calculation
- Structural model of the tower
- Vibration analysis
- Pre-stressing
- Design of onshore wind turbines
- Design of offshore wind turbines
- Ultimate limit state
- Verification of serviceability limit state
- Verification against fatigue
- Node design
- Foundation design
Manufacturing of prestressed concrete towers
- Introduction
- Hybrid structures of steel and prestressed concrete
- Segmental construction method for prestressed concrete towers
- Offshore concrete foundation
References
Joachim Göhlmann, Dr.-Ing., studied structural engineering at the Leibniz University Hannover where he completed his doctorate with the doctorate thesis ?Damage calculation of concrete constructions for wind turbines subjected to multi-stage and multi-axial fatigue loading?.
Dr. Göhlmann has been involved with the design, manufacture and measurement of towers and foundations for wind turbines for over 13 years. Since 2010 he has been managing director at grbv Ingenieure im Bauwesen GmbH in Hannover, Germany. grbv is an independent planning and consulting company for structural design of towers and support structures for on- and offshore wind farms.
Date de parution : 11-2013
Ouvrage de 242 p.
17.1x24.1 cm
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