AMES, Iowa – Grant Schmitz, eyes inches from a 6.5-by-12-foot panel of ultra-high performance concrete, studied the smooth surface for tiny cracks. He and other research engineers carefully marked ...

AMES, Iowa – Hydraulic equipment in two civil engineering labs recently pushed and pulled at test sections of a new kind of wind turbine tower, simulating the heavy, twisting loads that towers have to ...

The American Concrete Institute announces the availability of a new report for concrete industry professionals— ACI ITG-9R-16: Report on Design of Concrete Wind Turbine Towers. This report examines ...

As more and more wind turbines pop up across the state and country, researchers at Iowa State University are studying a new way to build the towers that hold them up into the sky. Grant Schmitz, a ...

BANGOR, Maine (WABI) - A top official with the U.S. Department of Energy made a stop at the UMaine Advanced Structures and Composites Center Thursday. Paul Dabbar visited the Orono facility to look at ...

Cement supplied by Lafarge North America played a key role in the construction of the Blue Creek Wind Farm in Ohio, which is owned and operated by Iberdrola Renewables. One of the largest wind power ...

The intermittent nature of wind and solar power generation is one of the biggest challenges facing these renewable energy sources. But this isn’t likely to remain a problem for much longer with ...

Engineers have designed and tested a concept for concrete towers to replace the steel towers used for wind turbines. The concrete towers could be a practical way to raise turbine towers from today's ...