The reason for wanting to have the impact area in the front of the blade is that a side collision would be more prone to bounche and have a less hard impact.
I will be back with more "cooked" simulations and so on.
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It is quite big. The size in mm is found in
http://www.andert.se/eng/matt.jpg.
The diamter of the turbine will be about 6m and the height 3.5m.
Large impacts I am not worried about, but say small tree branches or so. Since the turbineblade will be moving about 3 times as fast as the water i...
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It is a river flow unit, vertical axis. It will be positioned in a river,(sweet water).
The reason i might want to combine carbon and glass in the blades is that a collision with debrie might crack the carbon.
The reason I do not wish to go with metal is the weight...
First, I am new at this forum and if this is in the wrong place I am Sorry.
I am work with building a proof of concept for a marine current powerpland. And right now I have come to the design of the turbine.
An overview of the device so far:
http://www.andert.se/eng/over.jpg...
