Durability and Fatigue Challenges in Wind, Wave
and Tidal Energy

Engineering Integrity Society

Wednesday, 29 November 2006

BAWA, Filton, Bristol

This one-day event in Bristol brings together developers, professionals and academics in the rapidly developing world of renewable energy systems. The event is focused on the technical durability assessment of renewable structures and, in particular highlights the design and development of offshore systems, which includes recent progress in power generation from the wind, wave and tide energy. The speakers are drawn from established companies in this sector as well as from emerging technologies together with experienced professionals in advanced monitoring and theoretical assessment of renewable structures. The event is suitable to everyone involved with renewable technology and is held at BAWA centre near Airbus UK, Filton Bristol with easy access by car (M4 and M5) and by train (Parkway station is 10 minutes by taxi).

Programme

09:00 Registration

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Steve Gilkes – Garrad Hassan
Current status of the wind energy development - title t.b.c.

Geoff Dutton – RAL Energy Research Unit (t.b.c.)
Thermoelastic stress analysis and acoustic emission monitoring during full
scale tests of wind turbine rotor blades

Jarek Rosinski, Martin Rosinski, Andrew Wechsler – Transmission Dynamics
Remote torque measurements and gearbox condition monitoring for wind turbines

Coffee/Tea

Roger Haines - Garrad Hassan
Techniques & pitfalls in the analysis of fatigue histories in wind turbine hub
assemblies

Daniel Ng - Hexcel
Compression-compression fatigue behaviour

Lunch

Chris Lindley - Corus Group
Cost reduction and life extension of offshore wind farms (CORLEX)

Charles Taylor - Ocean Power Delivery
Pelamis - wave energy (title t.b.c.)

Peter Fraenkel - Marine Current Turbines
Marine Current Turbines: towards commercial reality

Coffee/Tea

Tim Camp – Garrad Hassan
Fatigue loading of offshore wind turbines - the importance of integrated analysis

Andrew Henderson - Offshore Wind Energy
Measurements at the Blyth offshore wind turbines

Claudio Bittencourt - DNV
The certification views on the structural survivability / reliability for wave and
tidal energy converters

John Draper - Safe Technology
Fatigue in welded joints, the Battelle structural stress method

Closing discussion

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