OPTIMIZATION OF A PRESTRESSED CONCRETE WIND TURBINE TOWER USING DIFFERENTIAL EVOLUTION

Resumo

Optimization procedures are being increasingly used in wind tower structure design in order to provide
more efficiency. In the face of recent advances, towers are getting bigger in order to perform better by providing
better winds for the turbines. Thus, prestressed concrete towers emerge as an excellent solution. This work aims
to apply and evaluate the Differential Evolution algorithm in order to reduce costs and improve the performance of
prestressed wind towers. The Finite Element Method is used for structural analysis. The algorithm is evaluated in
terms of accuracy and computational efficiency.