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Buckling behavior of tubes subjected to combined bending and torsion
Wind turbine towers are highly slender and made of thin cylindrical shells with large diameter‐to‐thickness ratios, which means stability is an essential concern. The high diameter‐to‐thickness ratios of these cylinders make them highly imperfection sensitive, meaning their failure loads and failure modes are highly dependent on initial geometries. Combined bending and torsion is commonly a controlling load case in the upper tower segments, but this load case has not seen significant study to date. To address the knowledge gap, an experimental study was conducted on the stability of cylinders under combined bending and torsion. A total of 48 cylinders were tested with varying diameter‐to‐thickness ratios and bending‐to‐torsion combinations seen in wind turbine towers. To better understand how imperfections affect the buckling modes of these thin‐walled cylinders, a 3D laser scanner was used to determine geometric imperfections of each test specimen prior to testing. This paper details the test setup and results of the experiments.
Buckling behavior of tubes subjected to combined bending and torsion
Wind turbine towers are highly slender and made of thin cylindrical shells with large diameter‐to‐thickness ratios, which means stability is an essential concern. The high diameter‐to‐thickness ratios of these cylinders make them highly imperfection sensitive, meaning their failure loads and failure modes are highly dependent on initial geometries. Combined bending and torsion is commonly a controlling load case in the upper tower segments, but this load case has not seen significant study to date. To address the knowledge gap, an experimental study was conducted on the stability of cylinders under combined bending and torsion. A total of 48 cylinders were tested with varying diameter‐to‐thickness ratios and bending‐to‐torsion combinations seen in wind turbine towers. To better understand how imperfections affect the buckling modes of these thin‐walled cylinders, a 3D laser scanner was used to determine geometric imperfections of each test specimen prior to testing. This paper details the test setup and results of the experiments.
Buckling behavior of tubes subjected to combined bending and torsion
Ding, Victoria (author) / Ádány, Sándor (author) / Torabian, Shahab (author) / Pervizaj, Anil (author) / Schafer, Benjamin W. (author)
ce/papers ; 6 ; 1145-1150
2023-09-01
6 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
Buckling behaviour of thin-walled regular polygonal tubes subjected to bending or torsion
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