Sentences with phrase «concrete turbine towers»
Sritharan said the studies of concrete turbine towers will continue at Iowa State.
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Could concrete towers be a practical way to raise turbine towers from today's 80 meters to the steadier winds at 100 meters and taller?
And so, Sritharan and Schmitz watched as Doug Wood, engineering specialist and manager of Iowa State's Structural Engineering Research Laboratory, typed in the commands for the lab's hydraulic equipment to push or pull with bigger loads on a full - size test segment of a 100 - meter concrete wind turbine tower.
Schmitz, an Iowa State graduate student of civil, construction and environmental engineering, and Sri Sritharan, Iowa State's Wilson Engineering Professor and leader of the's College of Engineering's Wind Energy Initiative, were trying to answer some basic questions about using concrete panels and columns to build wind turbine towers using prefabricated, easily transportable components.
«Engineers design, test taller, high - strength concrete towers for wind turbines.»
«Concrete for taller wind turbine towers passes tests, could help expand wind energy nationwide.»
Building wind turbines and towers also involve industrial processes such as concrete and steel making.
A contractor said the dangers of big turbines are associated with huge underground vaults at the towers» bases (though, in fact, turbine towers are planted in solid concrete foundations).
What I was implying is that most of the steel and concrete is in the foundations and tower, and these should have > 100 years useful life even if turbines are replaced every 20 - 30 years.