None of this work would be possible without my research collaborators here at UMass and abroad at DTU.

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Here’s some video footage of the first steps of our “gridshell” project with the Summer ’15 REU cohort. The project is detailed at http://woodontheplaza.info/

Academic Advisers

Peggi Clouston, Associate Professor of Environmental Conservation

Matt Lackner, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Bob Hyers, Professor of Mechanical Engineering

John Fabel, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Building and Construction Technology

 

Research Collaborators

Bo Madsen, Senior Scientist, Technical University of Denmark, Department of Wind Energy

Brian Naughton, Research Scientist, Sandia National Laboratories, Department of Wind Energy Technologies

 

Undergraduate Students

Malia Charter, Smith College ’16, Development and Baseline Properties Assessment for a 61.5-meter, 5MW Turbine Blade with Wood Laminate Skin 

Yashira Felicitano, University of Puerto Rico ’16, Life Cycle Assessment of Wood Laminate Turbine Blades using GaBi

Melody Cao, Smith College ’16 (not pictured), Shear Properties of SPF Laminated Veneer by the Symmetric Tension and Off-Axis Tension Tests

Alex Finn, University of Massachusetts ’14 (bottom left), 3-Point Bending Properties of Fiberglass-coated Spruce Laminate Beams

Jesse Turek, University of Massachusetts ’14 (bottom center)

Charlie Tormanen, University of Massachusetts ’15 (bottom right) 

 

Additional Thanks

Dan Pepin, Building Manager / Lab Supervisor

 

Funding Sources

This work would not be possible without the support of funding from the Ken Lloyd Fellowship, the NSF IGERT: Offshore Wind Energy Engineering, Environmental Science and Policy Grant #1068864, and the University of Massachusetts.