Heistermann, Christine (author), Pavlovic, M. (author), Veljkovic, M. (author), Pak, Daniel (author), Feldmann, Markus (author), Rebelo, Carlos (author), da Silva, Luis Simões (author) Friction connections with long open slotted holes have been proven to be a competitive alternative to the conventional flange connections in steel tubular towers for wind energy converters. As full-scale tests are not available, results of Finite Element Analysis (FEA) of the real-scale tower geometry are used in this paper to investigate the...
journal article 2017
