Wind Turbine Project
Lab Materials
- Wind Turbine Design Project Guideline [doc]
- Wind Turbine Power Measurement [doc]
- Wind Turbine Performance Data Sheet [doc]
- Wind Turbine Report Scoring Rubric [doc]
- Wind Turbine Presentation Scoring Rubric [doc]
Support Materials
- Wind Turbine Hub (see Wind Turbine Module in Lecture Canvas to download)
- Hugh Piggott’s web site – Scoraig Wind Electric (see ‘Blade Theory’ – excellent)
- Check out this wind turbine project
Solid Works
- Downloading SolidWorks: login to Canvas for information
- Introduction [pptx]
- Sketching in SW [pptx]
- Creating Reference Planes in SW [pptx]
- Extrude and Revolve [pptx]
- Sweep and Loft [pptx]
- Rendering [pptx]
- Tutorial – Modeling the Wind Turbine Blade [pptx]
Exercises
Resources
- Online Unit Conversion
- Acrobat Reader for viewing PDF files can be downloaded.