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In this paper an efficient numerical method for the static analysis of cylindrical tubes is introduced. The method is designed for the linear buckling analysis of wind turbine support towers which are, most typically, built up from conical and/or cylindrical cans. Accordingly, the developed method uses cylindrical tube segments as elementary building blocks, along with specialized shape functions, and is named the Finite Tube Method. Within a tube segment the displacements are approximated by two-dimensional Fourier series. The curved nature of the surface is directly considered in the kinematic equations. The segments are joined and/or supported to the ground by constraint equations or by elastic links. In the current implementation internal stresses are determined in a simplified way: the circumferential stress distributions are calculated from the internal forces/moment by classic strength of material formulae, while the longitudinal distribution within each segment is quadratic. The considered internal forces/moments are: normal force, shear force, bending moment, and torsional moment. The internal forces can be arbitrarily combined. In the paper the underlying derivations are briefly summarized, then the method is demonstrated and validated by numerical examples, comparing the results to analytical and alternative numerical solutions. The authors are actively developing the method and will provide future work on utilization of the method for buckling mode identification and decomposition, as well as practical advancements to make the method a useful tool in the engineering design and analysis of wind turbine support towers.
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Thin-walled structures comprises an important and growing proportion of engineering construction with areas of application becoming increasingly diverse, ranging from aircraft, bridges, ships and oil rigs to storage vessels, industrial buildings and warehouses.
Many factors, including cost and weight economy, new materials and processes and the growth of powerful methods of analysis have contributed to this growth, and led to the need for a journal which concentrates specifically on structures in which problems arise due to the thinness of the walls. This field includes cold– formed sections, plate and shell structures, reinforced plastics structures and aluminium structures, and is of importance in many branches of engineering.
The primary criterion for consideration of papers in Thin–Walled Structures is that they must be concerned with thin–walled structures or the basic problems inherent in thin–walled structures. Provided this criterion is satisfied no restriction is placed on the type of construction, material or field of application. Papers on theory, experiment, design, etc., are published and it is expected that many papers will contain aspects of all three.
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