• 한국산학기술학회논문지
• /
• 제15권3호
• /
• pp.1764-1769
• /
• 2014

본 논문에서는 기존의 단일대형강관 타워의 일부를 복수의 강관으로 대체한 멀티기둥-단일대형강관 하이브리드형식 풍력타워의 적용성을 평가하기 위하여 연결부의 성능을 수치해석적으로 평가하였다. 연결부의 형태는 멀티기둥의 단일대형강관 단부 관통 여부, 멀티기둥 하단부 날개 보강재의 유무 및 단일대형강관 내부 가로보 배치형식으로 구분하였다. 해석은 응력집중을 평가하기 위한 선형탄성해석과 극한강도을 평가하기 위한 재료 및 기하비선형 해석이 수행되었다. 수직력과 수평력에 대한 구조성능 분석 결과, 가로보 배치형식과 날개 보강재는 타워 구조계의 극한강도에 민감하게 영향을 주는 것으로 확인되었다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
• /
• 제25권4호
• /
• pp.515-522
• /
• 2021

본 논문에서는 관형 철탑의 용접부 결함을 상시적으로 감시하기 위하여 초음파 탐상 신호에 대한 기계학습 알고리즘의 적용 방법을 제시하고 분석하였다. 기계학습 방법으로는 유전자 알고리즘에 의한 특징 선택과 서포트 벡터머신을 이용한 탐상 신호 분류 방법을 사용하였다. 특징 선택에서는 30개의 후보 특징들 가운데 피크, 히스토그램 하한 경계, 정규 음로그우도가 선택되었으며, 이들은 결함의 깊이에 따른 신호의 차이를 명확하게 나타내었다. 또한, 선택된 특징들을 서포트 벡터 머신에 적용한 결과 정상 부위와 결함 부위를 완벽하게 분류할 수 있는 것으로 나타났다. 따라서 본 연구의 결과는 향후 초음파 신호 기반 결함 성장 조기 감지시스템의 개발과 이를 통한 에너지 송전 관련 산업에 유용하게 사용될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
• /
• 제17권1호
• /
• pp.298-303
• /
• 2016

수직 및 수평의 원형단면 강관으로 구성된 공간프레임 타워는 강재량을 줄이면서도 풍하중의 영향을 완화시킬 수 있는 장점으로 다양한 목적으로 널리 적용되고 있다. 이러한 공간프레임 타워를 하나의 타워구조로 거동하게 하기 위해서는 수직 강관과 수평 강관의 연결부인 강관조인트의 강도 확보가 중요하다. 본 연구에서는 압축과 휨이 동시에 작용하는 강관 T조인트의 강도평가를 수행하였다. AISC, Eurocode3, ISO 19902의 3가지 강관조인트 설계기준을 검토하고, 주강관과 지강관의 세장비를 주요 매개변수로 한 비선형 유한요소해석을 통하여 축력과 모멘트에 대한 극한강도 상호작용을 설계식으로 제안하였다.

• KEPCO Journal on Electric Power and Energy
• /
• 제5권4호
• /
• pp.257-262
• /
• 2019

Lattice steel towers for overhead transmission lines have been replaced by tubular steel poles due to the visual impact of large and complex shape of truss type. Demand for tubular steel poles consisting of a single frame member continues to grow because of its advantages such as visual minimization, architectural appeal and minimal site consumptions. However, there are some constraints on the transportation and construction. As the diameter of tower base has been enlarged, it may exceed minimum height limit required to pass the tunnel in case of land transportation. Also, in a narrow place where it is not easy to secure the installation areas such as mountainous places, there might be some areas wherein it must secure a wide working space so that large vehicles and working cranes will be allowed to enter. In this paper, we presented a vertical separated tubular steel pole, which is a new type of support that can be implemented for general purpose such as mountainous areas or narrow areas to improve the issues raised by breaking away from the conventional design and fabrication methods. Technical approaches for overcoming the limit of the cross-sectional size is to separate and modularize the cross-section of the tubular steel pole designed with a size that cannot be carried or assembled, and to lighten it with a weight capable of being transported and assembled in a narrow space or mountainous area. As a result of this research, it will be possible to enter small and medium sized vehicles in locations where it is restricted to transport by large-sized vehicles. In the case of mountainous areas, it will be possible to divide it into a weight capable of being carried by a helicopter and it will be easy to adjust and fabricate it with individual modules. Furthermore, in order to break away from the traditional construction method, we proposed the equipment that can be applied to the assembly of Tubular Steel Pole without using a large crane in locations where there is no accessible road or in locations wherein large cranes cannot enter. In particular, this paper shows the movable assembling equipment and some methods that are specialized for vertical separated tubular steel pole consisting of members with reduced weight. The proposed assembly equipment is a device for assembling the body of the Tubular Steel Poles. It will be installed inside the support and the modules can be lifted by using the support itself.

• 한국강구조학회 논문집
• /
• 제27권1호
• /
• pp.119-129
• /
• 2015

강재량을 줄이면서도 풍하중의 영향을 완화시킬 수 있는 장점으로, 수평재로 서로 연결된 다수의 수직 원형강관으로 구성된 멀티기둥 풍력타워 시스템은 기존의 단일 실린더형 타워구조에 대한 대안으로 고려될 수 있다. 멀티기둥 타워를 하나의 타워구조로 거동하게 하기 위해서는 수직 강관과 수평 강관의 연결부인 강관조인트의 강도 확보가 중요하다. 본 연구에서는 멀티기둥에 적용될 수 있는 T 조인트의 강도평가를 수행하였다. AISC, Eurocode3, ISO 19902, CIDECT의 4가지 강관조인트 설계기준을 검토하고, 조인트에서 주강관과 지강관의 세장비에 대한 매개변수해석을 통하여 설계기준에서 제공되는 강도산정식의 타당성을 검토하였다.

• Steel and Composite Structures
• /
• 제19권5호
• /
• pp.1115-1144
• /
• 2015

Current climate conditions along with advances in technology make further design and verification methods for structural strength and reliability of wind turbine towers imperative. Along with the growing interest for "green" energy, the wind energy sector has been developed tremendously the past decades. To this end, the improvement of wind turbine towers in terms of structural detailing and performance result in more efficient, durable and robust structures that facilitate their wider application, thus leading to energy harvesting increase. The wind tower industry is set to expand to greater heights than before and tapered steel towers with a circular cross-section are widely used as more capable of carrying heavier loads. The present study focuses on the improvement of the structural response of steel wind turbine towers, by means of internal stiffening. A thorough investigation of the contribution of stiffening rings to the overall structural behavior of the tower is being carried out. These stiffening rings are placed along the tower height to reduce local buckling phenomena, thus increasing the buckling strength of steel wind energy towers and leading the structure to a behavior closer to the one provided by the beam theory. Additionally to ring stiffeners, vertical stiffening schemes are studied to eliminate the presence of short wavelength buckles due to bending. For the purposes of this research, finite element analysis is applied in order to describe and predict in an accurate way the structural response of a model tower stiffened by internal stiffeners. Moreover, a parametric study is being performed in order to investigate the effect of the stiffeners' number to the functionality of the aforementioned stiffening systems and the improved structural behavior of the overall wind converter.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
• /
• 제73권5호
• /
• pp.487-500
• /
• 2020

Stiffeners can be utilised to enhance the strength of thin-walled wind turbine towers in engineering practise, thus, structural performance of wind turbine towers by means of different stiffening schemes should be compared to explore the optimal structural enhancement method. In this paper two alternative stiffening methods, employing horizontal or vertical stiffeners, for steel tubular wind turbine towers have been studied. In particular, two groups of three wind turbine towers of 50m, 150m and 250m in height, stiffened by horizontal rings and vertical strips respectively, were analysed by using FEM software of ABAQUS. For each height level tower, the mass of the stiffening rings is equal to that of vertical stiffeners each other. The maximum von Mises stresses and horizontal sways of these towers with vertical stiffeners is compared with the corresponding ring-stiffened towers. A linear buckling analysis is conducted to study the buckling modes and critical buckling loads of the three height levels of tower. The buckling modes and eigenvalues of the 50m, 150m and 250m vertically stiffened towers were also compared with those of the horizontally stiffened towers. The numbers and central angles of the vertical stiffeners are considered as design variables to study the effect of vertical stiffeners on the structural performance of wind turbine towers. Following an extensive parametric study, these strengthening techniques were compared with each other and it is obtained that the use of vertical stiffeners is a more efficient approach to enhance the stability and strength of intermediate and high towers than the use of horizontal rings.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
• /
• 제89권3호
• /
• pp.309-321
• /
• 2024

In this paper, the effect of semi-rigid connections on the stability bearing capacity of cross-bracings in steel tubular transmission towers is investigated. Herein, a prediction method based on the hybrid model which is a combination of particle swarm optimization (PSO) and backpropagation neural network (BPNN) is proposed to accurately predict the stability bearing capacity of cross-bracings with semi-rigid connections and to efficiently conduct its probabilistic assessment. Firstly, the establishment of the finite element (FE) model of cross-bracings with semi-rigid connections is developed on the basis of the development of the mechanical model. Then, a dataset of 7425 samples generated by the FE model is used to train and test the PSO-BPNN model, and the accuracy of the proposed method is evaluated. Finally, the probabilistic assessment for the stability bearing capacity of cross-bracings with semi-rigid connections is conducted based on the proposed method and the Monte Carlo simulation, in which the geometric and material properties including the outer diameter and thickness of cross-sections and the yield strength of steel are considered as random variables. The results indicate that the proposed method based on the PSO-BPNN model has high accuracy in predicting the stability bearing capacity of cross-bracings with semi-rigid connections. Meanwhile, the semi-rigid connections could enhance the stability bearing capacity of cross-bracings and the reliability of cross-bracings would significantly increase after considering semi-rigid connections.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
• /
• 제90권1호
• /
• pp.27-40
• /
• 2024

The prediction of VIV amplitude is essential for the design and fatigue life estimation of steel tubes in tubular transmission towers. Limited to costly and time-consuming traditional experimental and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methods, a machine learning (ML)-based method is proposed to efficiently predict the VIV amplitude of steel tubes in transmission towers. Firstly, by introducing the first-order mode shape to the two-dimensional CFD method, a simplified response analysis method (SRAM) is presented to calculate the VIV amplitude of steel tubes in transmission towers, which enables to build a dataset for training ML models. Then, by taking mass ratio M^*, damping ratio ξ, and reduced velocity U^* as the input variables, a Kriging-based prediction method (KPM) is further proposed to estimate the VIV amplitude of steel tubes in transmission towers by combining the SRAM with the Kriging-based ML model. Finally, the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed methods are demonstrated by using three full-scale steel tubes with C-shaped, Cross-shaped, and Flange-plate joints, respectively. The results show that the SRAM can reasonably calculate the VIV amplitude, in which the relative errors of VIV maximum amplitude in three examples are less than 6%. Meanwhile, the KPM can well predict the VIV amplitude of steel tubes in transmission towers within the studied range of M^*, ξ and U^*. Particularly, the KPM presents an excellent capability in estimating the VIV maximum amplitude by using the reduced damping parameter S_G.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
• /
• 한국신재생에너지학회 2007년도 춘계학술대회
• /
• pp.391-394
• /
• 2007

The foundation insert is a tubular steel section which is embedded into the concrete of the foundation. The tower base section of the wind turbine is mounted on it. It has a top flange (L type) protruding far enough above the concrete to allow bolts to be inserted from underneath. The load is transmitted to the concrete at the base of the section through a T shaped flange. It has many holes for the reinforcements and the cables. The reinforcements of the concrete foundation run through the insert via a series of holes to bind the inner section to the outer section. Holes are provided for the power and communications cabling. The design follows normal European wind turbine practice, based on GL 2003 and Eurocode regulations.