Non-conventional wind loading on ultra-high towers in Solar Updraft Power Plants

Journal of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures

Volumn 52, Issue 170, 2011, Pages 257-264

  Lupi, Francesca ^a   Borri, Claudio ^a   Niemann, Hans Jürgen ^b   Peil, Udo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Renewable energy; Solar Updraft Towers; Wind tunnel tests

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION COSTS; ELECTRIC POWER; ENERGY PRODUCTIONS; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; KEY ELEMENTS; LOADING MODELS; POWER PLANT TECHNOLOGY; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; SOLAR UPDRAFT TOWERS; STOCHASTIC ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL BEHAVIOUR; STRUCTURAL RESPONSE; SUSTAINABLE ENERGY SOURCES; THERMODYNAMIC EFFICIENCY; THIN SHELL STRUCTURES; ULTRA-HIGH; WIND ACTION; WIND LOADING; WIND TUNNEL TESTS;

POWER PLANTS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION; SUN; TOWERS; WIND STRESS; WIND TUNNELS;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 84855820091     PISSN: 1028365X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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