Device and method for anchoring a wind turbine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9790925-B2
Application number	US-201214359896-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 16, 2012
Priority date	Nov 24, 2011
Publication date	Oct 17, 2017
Grant date	Oct 17, 2017

Abstract

The present invention concerns an anchoring section for anchoring a pylon of a wind power installation in a foundation, including a carrier portion for fixing a pylon segment for carrying the pylon and a foundation portion for concreting in a concrete mass of the foundation, and the foundation portion has at least one web portion with through openings for reinforcing bars to pass therethrough.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An anchoring section for anchoring a pylon of a wind power installation in a foundation, the anchoring section comprising:
a carrier portion for fixing to a pylon segment above the foundation and for carrying the pylon, and
a foundation portion fixedly connected to the carrier portion for concreting into the foundation, the foundation portion having a web portion that extends in a substantially vertical direction and has a plurality of through openings arranged at different heights, the plurality of through openings being configured to receive reinforcing bars, the foundation portion being configured to transmit vertical forces into the foundation,

wherein the web portion is at least one of a cylindrical casing portion and a frustoconical casing portion that forms a cylindrical shape or a frustoconical shape when assembled with a plurality of anchoring sections, wherein the web portion terminates at an end that is remote from the carrier portion, the end being without a flange.

2. The anchoring section according to claim 1 wherein the plurality of through openings are arranged in rows.

3. The anchoring section according to claim 1 wherein the carrier portion is a flange.

4. The anchoring section according to claim 1 wherein the anchoring section includes a steel material.

5. The anchoring section according to claim 1 wherein the plurality of through openings have a substantially oval or elliptical and a longitudinal length extending in a vertical orientation.

6. A substructure of a wind power installation for anchoring a pylon of the wind power installation including a concrete foundation with an anchoring section according to claim 1 .

7. The substructure according to claim 6 wherein portions of the reinforcement bars are set into the concrete foundation and extend through the through openings in the anchoring section to provide for a transmission of load from the anchoring section into the concrete foundation by way of the reinforcing bars.

8. The substructure according to claim 6 wherein the carrier portion of the anchoring section is spaced above a surface of the concrete foundation.

9. The substructure according to claim 6 wherein portions of the reinforcing bars that extend through the plurality of openings are surrounded in the through opening with a filling material.

10. A wind power installation comprising:
a pylon that includes a first pylon segment that is anchored by an anchor, the anchor including an anchoring section according to claim 1 .

11. A method of anchoring a pylon of a wind power installation, the method comprising:
placing an anchoring section accordingly to claim 1 in a structural excavation;
placing reinforcement bars in the plurality of through openings so that a portion of the reinforcement bars extend through the plurality of through openings; and
pouring and hardening a concrete foundation over the web portion of the anchoring section, the flange extending above the concrete foundation.

12. The method according to claim 11 wherein the portion of the reinforcement bars that extend through the through openings are surrounded by a material so that the reinforcement bars do not touch a surface formed by the through openings.

13. The method according to claim 12 wherein the material surrounded the reinforcement bars is the concrete foundation.

14. The anchoring section according to claim 5 wherein the plurality of through openings have a mean diameter between 80 mm and 110 mm.

15. The substructure according to claim 9 wherein the filling material is concrete.

Assignees

• Wobben Properties Gmbh

Inventors

• Schacknies Meik
• Goralski Claus

Classifications

• F03D13/22

  Foundations specially adapted for wind motors · CPC title

• Y10T29/49623

  Static structure, e.g., a building component · CPC title

• Y02E10/728

  Onshore wind turbines · CPC title

• F03D11/045 Primary

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• E02D27/425 Primary

  specially adapted for wind motors masts (wind motors per se F03D1/00) · CPC title