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The wind turbine tower is mainly a simple cantiliver beam. However, its section forms a thin-walled cylindrical shell and therefore, several issues arise during the analysis such as the local buckling of the shell structure or the stress concentrations around the door opening which must be thoroughly examined. The design is governed by the extreme wind loading; earthquake loading should also be taken into account when designing the turbine tower on seismic hazardous areas.
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Baniotopoulos, C.C., Lavassas, I., Nikolaidis, G., Zervas, P. (2011). Topics on the design of tubular steel wind turbine towers. In: Baniotopoulos, C.C., Borri, C., Stathopoulos, T. (eds) Environmental Wind Engineering and Design of Wind Energy Structures. CISM Courses and Lectures, vol 531. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-0953-3_6
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