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APPLICATIONS
SP-High Modulus
to engineer Dream
Symphony
SP-HIGH MODULUS, the marine
business of Gurit, has signed a
contract to provide engineering
services for the 141 m (463 ft)
Dream Symphony, which is
scheduled to be the largest
private sailing yacht ever
constructed. The yacht will be a
wood construction, incorporating
some composite materials and
steel in the design.
The project is a collaboration
between the boat builder Dream
Ship Victory, Ken Freivokh Design
and Dykstra & Partners Naval
Architects. The yacht is currently
in construction at new purpose-
built facilities at the Dream Ship
Victory yard in Turkey.
The SP-High Modulus team will
be working with Dykstra &
Partners on the fi nite element
analysis (FEA) of the structure,
covering the global strength of
the design. The FEA will incorpo-
rate the properties and scantling
of the wood, composites and
steel using the team’s experience
of composite engineering.
Detailed engineering of the
construction details for the wood
structure will follow the FEA.
“For a project of this scale with
epoxy cold moulded construct-
ion, our engineering experience
in composite materials really
helps when the structure utilises
materials of very diff erent prop-
erties,” reports Graham Harvey,
General Manager Engineered
Structures, Gurit.
SP-High Modulus;
www.gurit.com/marine
Dream Ship Victory;
www.dsvyachts.com
LM 73.5 m blades on 6 MW turbine
LM WIND Power’s 73.5 m blades
have been installed on Alstom’s
fi rst 6 MW Haliade 150 off shore
wind turbine at Carnet in the
Loire-Atlantique region of France.
The composite blades were devel-
oped specifi cally for the turbine by
the two companies. They are
designed to boost energy capture
while keeping loads down. The
blade design went through several
rounds of testing before being
installed on the turbine in France.
“Our technology enables us to
design and manufacture relatively
lighter glass fi bre and polyester
blades for the length, but above
all, LM has proven ability to handle
the industrialisation of these
blades, which is not easy,” notes
LM Wind Power VP Sales &
Marketing, Ian Telford.
The turbine’s 25 m sub-structure
was installed on pillars driven
more than 30 m into the ground
on which the 75 m high tower
was then gradually mounted. The
turbine and its support structure
have a combined weight of
1500 tons.
The Alstom turbine has been
chosen by a consortium led by
EDF Energies Nouvelles for three
projects to install off shore turbines
generating 3 GW of wind power
off the coast of France. Alstom
and LM Wind Power plan to
establish a facility in Cherbourg,
France, to produce the composite
blades.
LM Wind Power;
www.lmwindpower.com
Alstom; www.alstom.com
The fi rst Alstom 6 MW Haliade 150 off shore wind turbine, in France.
Dream Symphony is currently under construction in Turkey.
QUICKSTEP HOLDINGS Ltd of
Australia has completed the fi rst
production parts for the interna-
tional F-35 Lightning II Joint
Strike Fighter (JSF) programme
under a purchase order secured
in July 2011. The assembled
access panels for the aircraft
were presented to Northrop
Grumman ahead of schedule.
These parts represent the fi rst
‘fl ying’ Group 1 JSF parts manu-
factured by Quickstep. The
company expects to manufacture
approximately one completed
part per week and will gradually
ramp up in quantity.
Quickstep specialises in the
production of advanced compos-
ites for aerospace, defence and
automotive use, using both the
traditional autoclave process and
its own out of autoclave tech-
nology – the Quickstep Process.
“With serial production now
underway we will be making
regular shipments of Group 1 JSF
parts to Northrop Grumman and
receiving regular cash fl ow, with
the intention of ramping up
production over the next 12
months,” says Quickstep’s
Managing Director, Philippe
Odouard.
Quickstep recently received its
second Purchase Order for Group
1 parts, covering manufacturing
and delivery throughout 2013.
Quickstep;
www.quickstep.com.au
Quickstep’s first JSF production parts