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European scientists designing the tools for tomorrow’s wind driven turbines
Worldwide, the market for Windmills is booming. It is already over EURO 1 billion per year. Presently Denmark gets 20 percent of its energy needs met from windmills.
Windmills are a wise idea towards energy independence. A Dutch researcher has developed a new and faster fatigue calculation method for designing offshore wind turbine support structures. The method, which uses a frequency domain analysis, is based on a fatigue assessment calculation tool widely used in structural offshore engineering, developed in the 1970s. It can be applied regardless of turbine make or type as well as support structure design. European scientists and the wind industry have joined together to design the tools for tomorrow’s turbines. Danish state laboratory Risø is leading the €23 million, five year project, UpWind, cosponsored by the European Union.
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