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 ...

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 ...

You won’t be surprised to read that Iowa is big farm country. If you’ve ever driven through the state, you doubtless noticed the vast expanses of land given over to agriculture. By some estimates, ...

The safety of wind turbines can be severely compromised by resonance between wind turbine towers and rotors. Traditional methods for measuring the natural frequency of wind turbine towers require ...

GE says printer in Bergen, New York, is "the size of a three story building" and able to print tower sections as tall as 20 meters. The facility in Bergen is described as being "at the heart" of a ...

Steady, growing demand in the global wind energy market combined with construction incentives in the new Inflation Reduction Act are driving an expansion of the CS Wind facility in Pueblo, Colo., ...