UNIStrathclyde-KHL

University of Strathclyde – Offshore Renewable Energy Laboratories

TA56UNIStrathclyde-KHL 

Location

75 Montrose Street Glasgow, 

G1 1XJ G20 0TL Glasgow,

Description

The James Weir Wind Tunnel is a open jet, recirculating wind tunnel with a working section of 1.4m diameter and with wind speeds up to 25m/s.

The Advanced Materials Research Laboratory is a materials testing laboratory undertaking a range of mechanical testing of materials supported by Thermal, Compositional and Micro-structural Analysis and matallographic preparation.

The Kelvin Hydrodynamic Laboratory is a hydrodynamic test tank facility which is 76m x 4.6m x 2.5m. It has a tow carriage capable of maintaining a controlled speed up to 5 m/s and variable-water-depth computer-controlled four-flap absorbing wavemaker generating regular or irregular waves over 0.5m height (subject to water depth) and a high quality variable-water-depth sloping beach, with reflection coefficient typically less than 5% over frequency range of interest.

Testing Capabilities

The infrastructures can be used to establish the aero-hydro-dynamic performance of foil geometries and configurations, wind and hydrodynamic loading of structures, the mechanical properties of materials and structures, and the mode of failure within a specific application.

Technical Equipment

Specific instrumentation can be organised based on the testing practice to be followed and in discussion with the lab managers.

Additional information

Technology Readiness Level: 1-3

Special considerations: N/A 

Technology clusters: Materials for Energy, Ocean Energy, Offshore Wind

Website: https://www.strath.ac.uk/engineering/navalarchitectureoceanmarineengineering/workingwithbusinessorganisations/ourfacilities/kelvinhydrodynamicslaboratory/

Availability: To be agreed via discussion with laboratory manager

Provision of tools to prepare data sets in a FAIR way:  Yes 

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