Student Work
Design of an offshore wind turbine's superstructure in Nantucket Sound
PublicThe purpose of this project was to design and evaluate two different towers to support a prototypical wind turbine for a proposed wind farm to be located on Horseshoe Shoal, in Nantucket Sound. The design parameters, for each tower height, complied with two limit states approaches: an extreme 50-year storm event, and a more frequent 10-year event. An estimated range of costs for the construction and installation of the wind farm was determined and compared with an estimate of the generated income.
- This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.
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- 03D144M
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- 2003
- Date created
- 2003-01-01
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