Design and Analysis of Steel Support Structures Used in Photovoltaic (PV) Solar Panels (SPs): A Case Study in Turkey As one of the most common and imperative contributing factors to clean energy aspect, solar energy takes a significant role around the whole world.
In the photovoltaic (PV) solar power plant projects, PV solar panel (SP) support structure is one of the main elements and limited numerical studies exist on PVSP ground mounting steel frames to be a research gap that has not be addressed adequately in the literature.
With the 4 rows and 11 columns PVSPs, the ground mounting steel frame has five basic bearing members named as “rail” for PVSP mounting, “beam”, column”, “purlin”, and “brace”, respectively. Figure 1 shows the general views of PVSP steel support structure.
The load of PVSP consisted of two parts such as (i) the dead load (D) included the weight of total PVSP ( ), rail weight ( ), beam ( ), purlin ( ), bolts ( ), columns above ground level ( ) (ii) the live load included wind load ( ), snow load ( ), and seismic load ( ). The design loads and load combinations were explained in this section. 5.1.
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