HSK references | Timbertower Special Construction, Germany
| CATEGORY: | Special construction |
| CLIENT: | TimberTower GmbH |
| COUNTRY: | Germany |
| YEAR: | 2012 |
| SURFACE: | Height of the tower 100 m |
| MATERIALS: | timber, steel |
| PROJEKT TEAM: | TimberTower GmbH TiComTec GmbH |
| PHOTOS: | Leander Bathon, Rainer Bahmer |
Good things come to those who wait: on 20th December 2012 the first timber tower for wind turbines, with a hub height of 100 m, was dedicated and activated near Hanover. The HSK systems of TiComTec enabled the construction of such superlative towers.
The challenges a timber tower for wind turbines has to meet:
- high forces in the load application points
- dynamic effects on the fasteners
The solution could only be a fastener which weakens the construction parts in their diameters only slightly, passes the forces not as points but in surface, shows a ductile conduct in case of failure and is exactly calculable for dynamic evaluations. The HSK systems with glued-in steel parts met these demands and could for the first time be used with great success in the test tower of TimberTower GmbH. Before this, in 2010, a test tower of 25 m height had been set up.
