Compound/Complex Vibrating Equipment Foundation Design for Onshore Facilities

For several decades, it has been possible to predict the timeline for maintenance or overhauling of a rotating equipment. Two key engineering checks for all foundations supporting vibrating equipment are: resonance and fatigue. For simple vibrating equipment shape, the foundation design is straightforward; however, that is not always the case. With an infrastructure development requirement… Read More Compound/Complex Vibrating Equipment Foundation Design for Onshore Facilities

PyWake Wind Farm Simulation Video Series Part 1 to 14

Introduction PyWake is a user friendly programme for simulation of a wind farm. This page is dedicated to uploading of videos which show the in-built capabilities of PyWake software and also user defined models. View below for videos on the usage of PyWake up till user defined parameters modeling. User documentation can be found at:… Read More PyWake Wind Farm Simulation Video Series Part 1 to 14

Part 1 – QBlade Wind Turbine Simulation Software with GUI

Introduction In past posts, an opensource programme for simulation of wind turbines and a limited wind farm configuration was covered. It is called OpenFAST. A nice programme it is; however, it does not have an interactive user interface. Introduced here is QBlade which has similar models of wind turbines as OpenFAST as a free programme… Read More Part 1 – QBlade Wind Turbine Simulation Software with GUI

PyWake – Wind Farm Design and Simulation Programme

Introduction With the rapidly evolving field of renewable energy and software engineering, presented here is a Python backed opensource programme for simulating a wind farm. It is called PyWake. Existing approaches for simulation of a wind turbine utilising hand calculations, opensource software and paid software are of common application. However, for wind farm design, in… Read More PyWake – Wind Farm Design and Simulation Programme

Udemy Online Course – Onshore Structural Design Step by Step Calculations

Presented here is the online course for the book titled Onshore Structural Design Step by Step Calculations. In previous posts, an overview of this field of civil engineering has been described, while computer aided video tutorials have been provided. These were however not done in details. In this online course, 4 of the 7 aspects… Read More Udemy Online Course – Onshore Structural Design Step by Step Calculations