Hi,
I've used IntelliCAD products like BricsCAD and CADopia, but these products did not run that well under Ubuntu. I've migrated to Fedora since and have been using DraftSight on my Fedora Linux computers (desktop and laptop), and Windows machines at work, for about 3 years.
For the colour...
Hi Metengr,
As indicated in my initial description of the project, about the dead load at the top of the tower, we're talking small wind turbines, in this case of 65kW. Large wind turbines are now on 80m and 100m towers and are usually in the 2MW power range. The turbine in this project is...
Hi Hokie66,
Yes fully welded has been discussed but we're leery of fatigue cracks around the welds (wind turbine applications have more cyclic loading than comm tower applications). We would need to do some thermal stress relieving, or we're told, heat the zone to be welded prior to welding...
Hello All,
http://www.eng-tips.com/threadminder.cfm?pid=507
In reading up on the subject over the last few months, including this posting http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=48335#p... on this forum, it has generated a number of questions.
The application is a lattice guy wire tower of...
Hello All,
In reading up on the subject over the last few months, including this posting http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=48335#post on this forum, it has generated a number of questions.
The application is a lattice guy wire tower of 200ft, 3 faces, faces are 8ft centres, legs are...
Hello PT999,
This might be coming a little late in the conversation but here's one definite possibility:
a) galvanization recipes vary from one shop to another, but also from one client type to another.
b) when the galvanization recipe includes more ALUMINUM is provides a very nice finish...
