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Reference Number EP/M014738/1
Title Extension of UKCMER Core Research, Industry and International Engagement
Status Completed
Energy Categories Renewable Energy Sources(Ocean Energy) 100%;
Research Types Basic and strategic applied research 100%
Science and Technology Fields ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Mechanical, Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering) 90%;
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES (Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences) 10%;
UKERC Cross Cutting Characterisation Not Cross-cutting 100%
Principal Investigator Professor R (Robin ) Wallace
No email address given
Energy Systems
University of Edinburgh
Award Type Standard
Funding Source EPSRC
Start Date 01 January 2015
End Date 31 December 2017
Duration 36 months
Total Grant Value £795,262
Industrial Sectors Energy
Region Scotland
Programme Energy : Energy
 
Investigators Principal Investigator Professor R (Robin ) Wallace , Energy Systems, University of Edinburgh (99.994%)
  Other Investigator Dr I Masters , Engineering, Swansea University (0.001%)
Prof DM Ingram , Energy Systems, University of Edinburgh (0.001%)
Mr C Johnstone , Mechanical Engineering, University of Strathclyde (0.001%)
Dr A Kiprakis , Sch of Engineering and Electronics, University of Edinburgh (0.001%)
Dr L Johanning , Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter (0.001%)
Dr B Elsaesser , Planning, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Queen's University Belfast (0.001%)
  Industrial Collaborator Project Contact , Swansea University (0.000%)
Project Contact , University of Exeter (0.000%)
Project Contact , Queen's University Belfast (0.000%)
Project Contact , Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult (0.000%)
Project Contact , RenewableUK (0.000%)
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Objectives
Abstract Wave and tidal energy devices are subjected to normal everyday loadings and abnormal extreme loadings. Extreme loadings are severe and less frequent. The repetitive loadings arising from wave-device interaction or current-blade-structure interaction are lower and occur very frequently in normal operation. Economic designs that will survive have to withstand, without structural failure, a combination of these types of loading over the design life of the device and its subsystems. Cumulative fatigue damage in the wave or turbulent-current environment could occur earlier than anticipated in the life of wave or tidal current technologies and needs to be better understood to predict wear-out or failure and ensure designs are robust without entailing excessive cost. This work will explore numerically through computer modelling, and physically through preliminary model- and sea-testing, the interaction of tidal and wave devices with their sea that surrounds them, one another, their moorings and the electricity network to understand the cyclic and irregular forces acting and the structural loadings arising, ultimately aiming to reduce fatigue effects and increase reliability
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