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SPARCARB

The SPARCARB research project is a European project under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions, Innovative Training Networks (ITN). The main aim is to address the electrical, thermal and mechanical response of wind turbine (WT) blade, carbon fibre reinforced polymer (CFRP) components to lightning impulses, as well as the development of novel CFRP material systems (main focus on nano-modified resin systems) and equipotential bonding concepts. SPARCARB is composed of four PhD individual projects (subprojects) and two of these are within the EPE group.

Homepage: http://sparcarb.com/
Type: Postgraduate Research
Research Group: Electronics and Computer Science
Themes: High Voltage Engineering, Solid dielectrics, Marine Energy
Dates: 1st January 2015 to 31st December 2018

Keywords

• CFRP
• epoxy nanocomposites
• lightning impulse
• multiphysics simulations
• wind turbine blades

Partners

• GLPS A/S, Denmark

Funding

• European Commission
• H2020

Principal Investigators

• Professor Paul L Lewin
• Dr Igor Golosnoy
• Thomas Andritsch
• Professor Ole Thybo Thomsen
• Professor Janice M Barton

Other Investigators

• Orestis Vryonis
• Andrea A. M. Laudani
• Evangelos Senis
• Timothy M. Harrell

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