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Overview
Our group was given a scenario where we had been contracted by a large hydro company to design durable wind turbines that generate large amounts of electric power for the city of Kingston Ontario. In order to do that we needed blades that would be able to take advantage of the wind pressures in the area by minimizing inertia and maximizing efficiency. Because of this our goal was to create turbine blades that would be as efficient as possible while not being high maintence or overly expensive.
Soft Skills:
Collaboration
Communication
Time Management
Team Coordination
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Milestone 0 involved meeting the team assigning roles and making a preliminary Gantt chart.
Group Photo
Preliminary Gantt chart
Assigned Roles for Project 1
Milestone Involved defining our problem statement and making our objective trees for each scenario before we were assigned our own. We then gave feedback on each others objective trees and would use one later when assigned our scenario.
Our initial problem statement
Objective tree for the first scenario which would eventually become our scenario
Milestone 2 involved refining the problem statement and objective tree for the previous milestone. We then make a turbine blade specific objective tree as well as a new problem statement specifically for the blade. Finally we defined the top 3 most important objectives for our turbine blade design and the metrics that we will use in order to measure these objectives.
Objective tree for the turbine blade
Problem statement for the turbine blade
Objectives and metrics for the turbine blade
Milestone 3A was focused on material selection. In order to properly do that we needed to define the Primary and secondary objectives for our turbine blade, these were minimize mass and minimize cost. We then used Granta to narrow down which of the materials would be best for our application. We then used a decision matrix to pick from the top three materials finally settling on medium carbon steel.
Primary and secondary objectives
Weighted decision matrix with our three finalist materials