DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF WIND MILL TOWER

ABSTRACT

Energy is one of the crucial inputs for social-economy and human lives. Global
population is increasing day to day this result of development of activities the energy demand
is also increasing. Energy source is mainly from fossil fuels like oil, coal etc and also from
renewable energy is like wind hydro, Geothermal energy etc.

The wind energy is converted to electrical energy by means of wind turbine the
turbines are installed in regions where the wind speed is more and there are many
components these are mounted on the steel structured tower.

The tower of windmill is mainly affected by various loads acting over on it, such as
air forces, rotating of rotors develops forces, blades weight and atmospheric temperatures.
Therefore the tower would be getting failure soon. Practically it is impossible to check the
failures of the components in running condition. And also it is very difficult and makes lot of
losses (material, cost, time, etc).

Hence with the help of FEM SOFTWARE it is possible to analyse the failures of
tower without destroy the tower assembly and also improving the efficiency of the windmill
tower.

V.Uma Mahesh

M TECH CAD/CAM

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