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Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation—Inaugural Members Meeting
News Article, October 16, 2015 • Sandia Wind Department technical staff members Josh Paquette and Brian Naughton attended the inaugural members meeting for the newly formed Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI) in Knoxville, Tennessee. A few hundred attendees from the composites industry, academic institutions, and government agencies gathered to learn about opportunities to participate in...

Sandia Wake-Imaging System Successfully Deployed at Scaled Wind Farm Technology Facility
News Article, September 18, 2015 • The Sandia Wake-Imaging System (SWIS) was deployed for a full-scale field demonstration at the Sandia Scaled Wind Farm Technology (SWiFT) facility in Lubbock, Texas, in July. This successful field demonstration was a culmination of over 3 years of technical development; more than a year of safety, environmental, and regulatory approvals;...

SWiFT Facility Prepared for More-Efficient Operations & Advanced Turbine-Turbine Wake-Interaction-Control Research
News Article, October 16, 2015 • The SWiFT facility comprises three heavily instrumented and modified variable-speed, variable-pitch Vestas V27 turbines and two 60 m anemometer towers, with the first two turbines spaced three diameters apart, perpendicular to the prevailing oncoming wind, and the third turbine five diameters downwind (the turbines form a three, five-, six-rotor-diameter-length triangle)....

Version 24 of the Composite Materials Database Now Available for Download
News Article, September 23, 2015 • Tensile coupon showing acoustic sensors clamped onto sample along with extensometer. Wind-turbine blade growth continues to have the largest impact on energy capture and levelized cost of energy (LCOE) reduction. While the 40–45 meter blade is today’s mainstream segment, it is estimated that blades over 50 m will be the...

Wave-Energy/-Device Modeling: Developing A 1:17 Scaled Model
News Article, September 23, 2015 • Many theoretical studies show that additional energy can be captured through control of the power-conversion chains (PCCs) of resonant wave-energy converter (WEC) devices. The numerical models employed in these studies are, however, idealized to varying degrees. The objective of the Resilient Nonlinear Controls (RNLC) project is to validate the extent...