Analysis and design of the prototype of a steel 1-MW wind turbine tower

Engineering Structures

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1097-1106

  Lavassas, I ^a   Nikolaidis, G ^a   Zervas, P ^a   Efthimiou, E ^a   Doudoumis, I N ^a   Baniotopoulos, C C ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Fatigue analysis; Seismic analysis; Static analysis; Steel tower; Wind turbine tower

Indexed keywords

FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STEEL STRUCTURES; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

WIND LOADINGS;

WIND TURBINES;

DESIGN; SEISMIC RESPONSE; STEEL FRAME; WIND LOAD; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 0037531192     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0141-0296(03)00059-2     Document Type: Article

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