TOWER SEGMENT AND METHOD UTILIZING SEGMENTED BEARING PLATE

摘要

A concrete wind turbine tower segment (132) is provided with a bearing plate (154) formed by a plurality of individual smaller plates (150) secured within the concrete body of the tower segment (132). The tower segment (132) may include an anchor bar cage assembly (180) made of an embedded plate (153) with a plurality of anchor bars (152) extending there through and through the plates (150). A protective sleeve (182) may be positioned over the anchor bars (152). A method of forming the tower segment (132) includes attaching the plate segments (150) to a precision formed template ring (170) as part of the cage assembly (180), pouring concrete/grout (151) around the cage assembly (180) against the plates (150), and removing the template ring (170) to reveal a precision mate face of the bearing plate (154). The single large, expensive ring (170) may be reused to form multiple tower segments (132).