Dr Terence Macquart
Current positions
Senior Lecturer
School of Civil, Aerospace and Design Engineering
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Research interests
My research focuses on the applications of composite materials at the structure level. To this aim, I develop numerical methods and frameworks designed to take advantage of the tailorability of composite materials as a means to improve structural performances. In particular, the aeroelastic optimisation of wind turbine rotors is one of my main research interest.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Fatigue prediction for non-conventional laminates application to wind turbine blades
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Aerospace EngineeringDates
01/01/2019 to 18/06/2019
RS International Exchange Scheme
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Aerospace EngineeringDates
21/11/2016 to 20/02/2017
RS International Exchange Scheme
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Civil EngineeringDates
21/11/2016 to 20/02/2017
Thesis supervisions
Truss-based Natural Material Wind Turbine Towers
Supervisors
Optimal aeroelastic tailoring of wind turbines
Supervisors
A design approach for super-efficient Wrapped Tow Reinforced Hierarchical Space Frames
Supervisors
On the sensitivity and validation of bending, twisting, and bend-twist coupling behaviour of wind turbine blade cross-sections
Supervisors
Non-linear Bi-axial fatigue Testing of Wind Turbine Blades
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
18/01/2024Sensitivity of cross-sectional compliance to manufacturing tolerances for wind turbine blades
Wind Energy Science
AutoMapper
Computational Materials Science
Comparison of blade optimisation strategies for the IEA 15 MW reference turbine
Journal of Physics: Conference Series
A method using beam search to design the lay-ups of composite laminates with many plies
Composites Part C: Open Access
A repair algorithm for composite laminates to satisfy lay-up design guidelines
Composite Structures