Windkraftwerke - Umwelt, Bemessung, Perspektiven

Wind Power Plants - Environment, design, outlook and scope.

The today's world is confronted by two global threats: worming effect caused probably by the excessive use of fossil fuels and dependence on these becoming short sources of energy.
The worming effect is caused by a membrane of gases produced among others during the conventional energy generation. There are voices claiming that some of the current natural disasters are consequences of such air pollution.
One of the reactions of the highly developed world is use of renewable energy sources such as bio mass, water, sun and wind. Wind is definitive the most important alternatives to the fossil fuels and so wind mills belong to the most important structures of the near future.
Consequently, the paper addresses the following major issues regarding modern structural design of wind mills:
- Basis of structural design: Structural features, design principles, bearing directions
- vertical bearing direction: Design process, design tools, design example
- horizontal bearing direction: Design process, design tools, design example