Analysis & Design Software for Renewable Energy Structures

Structural Engineering Software for Renewable Energy Structures

Many Dlubal customers rely on RFEM and RSTAB when designing renewable energy structures. For example, there are useful features in RFEM and RSTAB for design of solar plants.

The useful features are: automatic load generation, creation of special profile cross-sections, connection to the COM interface, generation of load combinations to consider different inclination angles of solar cells, and many others.

3D Finite Element Analysis and Design

Structural engineering FEA software RFEM is the basis of a modular software system. RFEM is used to define structures, materials, and loads for planar and spatial structural systems consisting of plates, walls, shells and members. The program also allows you to create combined structures as well as model solid and contact elements.

FEA Software RFEM

Analysis & Design of Frame/Beam/Truss Structures

Structural frame analysis and design software RSTAB determines internal forces, deformations and support reactions. For subsequent design, the add‑on modules are available considering structural conditions of specific materials and standards. Due to the modular concept of the software, you can combine the programs to meet your individual requirements.

Frame Analysis Software RSTAB

Wind Simulation & Wind Load Generation

Use the stand-alone program RWIND Simulation for complex structures. This program simulates wind flows around any structures by means of a digital wind tunnel.

The generated wind loads acting on these objects can be imported to RFEM or RSTAB.

More About RWIND Simulation

Add-on Modules for Renewable Energy Structure Designs

For structural analysis and design of renewable energy structures (for example solar power plants, photovoltaic plants, wind power plants, hydroelectric power plants, biogas plants), find more useful add-on modules under the Steel Structures industry.

Steel Structures

If there are masts used as a substructure for the renewable energy structures, we recommend the add-on modules of the Towers and Masts industry.

Towers and Masts

Interfaces for Data Exchange

The structural analysis software provided by Dlubal can be seamlessly integrated into the Building Information Modeling (BIM) process. A variety of interfaces allows you to exchange data from digital building models with RFEM or RSTAB.

Building Information Modeling (BIM)

Support and Learning

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Customer Projects of Renewable Energy Structures

Solar Power Plant in Haixi, China

In the Chinese province of Qinghai, near the city of Haixi, a complex of 23 multi-energy plants is being built, combining different technologies to generate energy from renewable resources. The complex comprises a 618.4 ft high tower of the 50-MW solar power plant whose support structure is expected to be completed in mid-2019.
Customer Projects of Renewable Energy Structures

AIR House by Czech Student Team in Solar Decathlon 2013

With its energy-efficient solar-powered house, the student team of the Czech Technical University (CTU) in Prague achieved an outstanding 3rd place at the Solar Decathlon, an engineering competition organized by the U.S. Department of Energy.
Customer Projects of Renewable Energy Structures

Biomass Power Plant Schilling in Schwendi, Germany

One of the most modern power stations for energy production based on renewable resources can be found in Schwendi, Southern Germany. Following the design of the Milan architect Matteo Thun, an architecturally sophisticated framework consisting of reinforced concrete, steel and timber has been created.
Customer Projects of Renewable Energy Structures

Solar Chimney Power Plant, Germany

Within the P3 Project "Tower Constructions", students of Dortmund University in Germany designed and analyzed a solar chimney power plant.
The solar chimney is a type of the solar updraft tower (SUT), a renewable-energy power plant that generates electricity from low temperature solar heat.

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