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SUMMARY:Designing Resilient Wind Energy Materials: From Leading-Edge Erosi
 on to Multi-Material Optimisation - Wei Tan\, Queen Mary University of Lon
 don
DTSTART:20251024T140000Z
DTEND:20251024T150000Z
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CONTACT:Shehara Perera
DESCRIPTION:Wind energy plays a vital role in achieving net-zero targets\,
  yet the durability of turbine blades is limited by leading-edge erosion c
 aused by repetitive rain and particulate impacts. This talk presents our r
 ecent progress in understanding and designing for erosion resilience throu
 gh mechanics-based and optimisation-driven approaches. I will first discus
 s the physical mechanisms underlying impact-induced degradation and how dy
 namic loading governs material response. Building on these insights\, I wi
 ll introduce a multi-material topology optimisation framework that tailors
  structural vibration characteristics through eigenfrequency optimisation 
 under free vibration. The results demonstrate how optimised material distr
 ibutions can tune natural frequencies and enhance dynamic robustness\, off
 ering pathways towards erosion-resistant and fatigue-resilient designs. Th
 e talk concludes with an outlook on extending this framework to transient 
 impact conditions and data-driven acceleration for future resilient wind e
 nergy structures.
LOCATION:CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building)
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