Table of contents
Introduction
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
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