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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 26, 2023
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2018
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Norman Arnold Turnquist, Carlisle, NY (US);
Gregory Edward Cooper, Greenfield Center, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A tower structure of a wind turbine includes a plurality of tower sections stacked atop each other in an end-to-end configuration along a vertical axis to form the tower structure of the wind turbine at a wind turbine site. Each of the tower sections is formed of at least one first tubular portion and at least one second tubular portion. Further, the first and second tubular portions of each of the plurality of tower sections are concentric with each other. Moreover, the first tubular portion is formed at least in part, of a cementitious material and the second tubular portion is formed of a perforated material having a plurality of holes.