Workshop 3: Design and maintenance of Wind Turbines

27/6/2022-1/7/2022

The proper design of a WT has a significant contribution to the reduction of operating and maintenance costs. Well-designed blades, gearboxes, generators, etc. increase the reliability and the life cycle of WTs. On the other hand, quick and less costly repairing techniques are a key issue for WT uptime and success. While scheduled wind turbine maintenance costs are relatively low, unscheduled maintenance costs being out of maintenance/warranty agreements become a real headache for facility owners. For this reason, the optimum design of WT’s components, predictive maintenance, fatigue damage estimation, and repairing, corrosion and lightning protection, continuous monitoring, and non-destructive inspection are top priorities for the engineers working in the already successful industry of WTs.

The present workshop aims to provide an overview of some critical issues dealing with the design and maintenance of WTs. Advanced materials and modeling for wind turbine blades, Non-Destructive Testing, blade inspection and repair, structural health monitoring, corrosion protection, and damage due to hail impact and lightning strikes are some topics that will be presented in this workshop.

The workshop will be a webinar organized by the Engineering School of the University of Patras from 27/6/2022 to 1/7/2022.

Workshop Venue

School of Engineering of the University of Patras

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Teaching Team

Vassilis KostopoulosProfessor
Department of Mechanical Engineering & Aeronautics, University of Patras, Greece.
Fotios KopsaftopoulosProfessor
Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA.
Dimitrios AggelisProfessor
Department of Mechanics of Materials and Constructions, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.
Nassos AnastasopoulosDr.
Engineering Director, MISTRAS Group Hellas, Athens, Greece.
Alexandros AntoniouDr.
Fraunhofer Institute für Windenergiesysteme IWES, Bremerhaven, Germany.
Theodore KossivasFounder
Founder of COMPBLADES Company, Athens, Greece.
Theodore LoutasProfessor
Department of Mechanical Engineering & Aeronautics, University of Patras, Greece.
Stephanos TsinopoulosProfessor
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Peloponnese, Greece.
Charis KokkinosFounder
Founder of FEAC Engineering Company, Patras, Greece.
Antonios VavouliotisFounder
Founder of ADAMANT Composites Company, Patras, Greece.

Technical Program

9:00-9:30 Registration and welcome
9:30-10:00 Workshop opening by Prof. T. Triantafyllidis
10:00-11:00 Acoustic Emission 24/7/365 remote monitoring of W/Ts

Dr. Nassos Anastasopoulos
11:00-12:00 Acoustic Emission 24/7/365 remote monitoring of W/Ts

Dr. Nassos Anastasopoulos
12:0-12:15 Break
12:15-13:15 Corrosion of W/Ts

Prof. Stephanos Tsinopoulos & Dimitrios Kalovelonis
13:15-14:15 Corrosion of W/Ts

Prof. Stephanos Tsinopoulos & Dimitrios Kalovelonis

14:15-15:15 Advanced Materials and Modelling for Wind Turbine Blades

Dr. Alexandros Antoniou
15:15-16:15 Advanced Materials and Modelling for Wind Turbine Blades

Dr. Alexandros Antoniou
16:10-16:30 Break
16:30-17:30 From Structural Health Monitoring to Future Intelligent Self-Aware Structural Systems

Prof. Fotios Kopsaftopoulos
17:30-18:30 From Structural Health Monitoring to Future Intelligent Self-Aware Structural Systems

Prof. Fotios Kopsaftopoulos

9:15-10:00 Wind turbine prototype blades Manufacture, Blades Inspection and Repair

Theodore Kossivas, COMPBLADES
10:15-11:0 Wind turbine prototype blades Manufacture, Blades Inspection and Repair

Theodore Kossivas, COMPBLADES
11:00-11:15 Break
11:15-12:15 Elastic Wave Techniques for Characterization of Advanced Materials and Structures

Prof. Dimitrios Aggelis
12:15-13:15 Elastic Wave Techniques for Characterization of Advanced Materials and Structures

Prof. Dimitrios Aggelis

9:15-10:00 Wind Turbine Blade Damage due to Hail Impact and Lighting strike

Prof. Vassilis Kostopoulos
10:15-11:00 Wind Turbine Blade Damage due to Hail Impact and Lighting strike

Prof. Vassilis Kostopoulos
11:0-11:15 Break
11:25-12:15 Structural Health Monitoring in the Digital Era

Prof. Theodore Loutas
12:15-13:15 Structural Health Monitoring in the Digital Era

Prof. Theodore Loutas

9:15-10:00 Reduced order models in WT design

Charis Kokkinos, George Drakoulas, FEAC Engineering.
10:15-11:00 Reduced order models in WT design

Charis Kokkinos, George Drakoulas, FEAC Engineering.
11:00-11:15 Break
11:15-12:15 Design of advanced composites

Antonios Vavouliotis & Dimitrios Vlachos, ADAMANT
12:15-13:15 Design of advanced composites

Antonios Vavouliotis & Dimitrios Vlachos, ADAMANT

Registration

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