Ioan Smallwood

Experience:

• A Chartered Mechanical Engineer with over 15 years’ experience in turbine design, concept design & architecture layout.
• Significant experience of complex linear and non-linear stress analysis, low-cycle and high-cycle fatigue life calculations.
• Extensive bolted joint design experience, including methodology for bolt fatigue & extreme analysis, and failure prediction.
• Detailed design and integration of complete systems.
• Cost reduction and efficient design optimisation to reduce weight.
• Hydraulic schematics and calculations.

Projects:

• 1.4MW tidal turbine – concept design,detailed design and stress analysis.
• 1MW tidal turbine – concept design, detailed design, manufacture, test, operation.
• 500kW tidal turbine – concept design , detailed design.
• 1MW wind turbine design, stress analysis, build and test.
• Vestas – Celtic Wind Technology; V27; V44; V47; V52; V80; service and maintenance.