14 oktober 2024
Nonlinear 3D modelling for wind turbine foundation design
Windbase is designing its wind turbine foundations using advanced nonlinear 3D FEM models since 2006. And for good reasons…
The structural behaviour of reinforced concrete wind turbine foundations is much more complicated than one might expect at first sight. Reducing it to a 2D plate, as we see most designers do, over-simplifies the structure. Codes acknowledge these simplifications and introduce all kinds of design- and detailing rules to compensate the uncertainties, although one might debate the applicability of normal standards for this kind of structures.
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