selected publications

• academic article

  • Facing technological challenges of Solar Updraft Power Plants.  Journal of Sound and Vibration.  334:57-84. 2015
  • Solar updraft power plants: Engineering structures for sustainable energy generation.  Engineering Structures.  56:1698-1706. 2013
  • From large natural draft cooling tower shells to chimneys of solar upwind power plants.  Symposium of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (50th. 2009. Valencia). Evolution and Trends in Design, Analysis and Construction of Shell and Spatial Structures : Proceedings.  2009
  • Structural stability of concrete wind turbines and solar chimney towers exposed to dynamic wind action.  Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics.  95:1079-1096. 2007
  • Vorgespannte Betontürme für Windenergieanlagen: Einflüsse nichtlinearer Materialeigenschaften auf die Eigenfrequenzen als Entwurfskriterium.  Beton- Und Stahlbetonbau.  2005
  • New natural draft cooling tower of 200 m of height.  Engineering Structures.  24:1509-1521. 2002
  • World’s Tallest Natural Draft Cooling Tower, near Cologne, Germany.  Structural Engineering International.  2001
  • Simulation of static and kinetic buckling of unstiffened and stiffened cooling tower shells.  Engineering Structures.  9:9-18. 1987

• chapter

  • Structural degradation of wind-turbine towers under combined wind and thermic action.  . 2003
  • Lifetime-Oriented Analysis and Design of Large-Scale Cooling Towers.  Elsevier eBooks. 87-98. 2001

• conference paper

  • Shape Optimization, Design and Construction of the 200m Niederaussem Cooling Tower Shell.  . 2001