Wind towers: Design of friction connections for assembling sections of tubular steel towers

Abstract

The towers represent about 15 to 20% of the total installation costs and optimized design may therefore lead to substantial savings with regard to costs and use of materials. Some of the most interesting design and manufacturing details are connections used to assemble sections of tubular steel towers supporting wind turbines. There is traditional flange ring connection and on the other side, as a new proposal, friction connection. In this paper theoretic basis of design of friction connection of wind towers is given.

Tornjevi predstavljaju 15 do 20% ukupne cene vetrogeneratora pa se optimizacijom u projektovanju može doći do značajne uštede u materijalu. Među najinteresantnijim projektantskim i izvođačkim detaljima je montažni nastavak tornja vetrogeneratora. Postoje tradicionalni nastavci sa čeonim pločama i sa druge strane, kao novi predlog, tarni spoj. U ovom radu date su teorijske osnove projektovanja tarnih spojeva kao montažnih nastavaka tornjeva vetrogeneratora.