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Environmental and operational loads are design drivers for steel support structures of Offshore Wind Turbines. Besides common design and installation factors a holistic design includes sustainability dimensions which will dominate decision processes and cost effectiveness of future renewable constructions. Within a national research project a life cycle sustainability assessment was developed for steel constructions of renewable focussing on Offshore Wind Turbines. To describe the sustainability, categories and criteria were defined and their applicability was analyzed for selected reference steel support structures of Offshore Wind Turbines.
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Presented results and approaches are achieved within the research project ‘NaStafEE’ [6] funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi) via the AiF and FOSTA accompanied by more than 30 industry project partners. The support by the partners especially the research partners Prof. N. Stranghöner and scientific assistants, IML, University of Duisburg-Essen and Prof. Wagner and scientific assistants, LEE, Ruhr-University Bochum is kindly acknowledged.
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Schaumann, P., Bechtel, A. (2014). Sustainability Assessment and Relevant Indicators of Steel Support Structures for Offshore Wind Turbines. In: Helber, S., et al. Operations Research Proceedings 2012. Operations Research Proceedings. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00795-3_52
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