It's a neat concept really. These massive offshore wind turbines they're building at the moment require regular inspection, maintenance and component replacement. My project will be to design an active heave compensation system for the cranes they put on the bases of these wind turbines to get supplies on/off the boat. Baiscally involves measuring the acceleration of the deck of the boat and designing a control system (the logic of one, not so concerned with the wiring side of things, that's for electrical engineersfurie said:I'm interested, sounds like a cool thing
) to get a payload to track the motion of the boat to avoid any impact loading on the deck, crane or payload.Sounds like you should meet my lecturer. Don't think I've ever seen some so enthusiastic about film thicknesses...furie said:I did some work once for the National Centre for Tribology. Best ology there is
We've had the odd tutorial question that did that sort of thing over the years - I detest it! Really just that the lecturers never mention that they might do it in class, so it's always just out of the blue.
