The wind energy value chain:
Step 1: Design, test and validation
The wind value chain starts with design and testing before production, installation, operations, and decommissioning. Here are some issues we can help you with during the design phase.
How can you know if your wind structure or part can withstand the environment?
The design of a wind project is the very first step in the wind energy value chain. It starts with a lifetime assessment considering the extremely harsh conditions in which the wind turbine system or part must operate.
A lifetime assessment is crucial to the operation of most steel constructions, and it helps you to plan maintenance and repair, avoid failure and minimise lost turnovers.
You need to consider both ultimate and fatigue loading, understand wind/wave characteristics and their interactions and know how to precisely predict collective influence on these complex, dynamic systems in the lifetime assessment. Our climatic test chamber can test large components, structures and functional systems under realistic atmospheric sea conditions. Temperature control, humidity control and salt spray can be individually controlled or programmed as combined effects to simulate the harsh offshore atmosphere as realistically as possible.
Our extreme and special tests provide you with documentation demonstrating your product's resistance to the environment and can be a part of determining its life expectancy.
Make use of our decades of experience in designing, testing and validating wind projects to:
60+ years of experience
Many companies offer integrity management, experimental tests and simulations, non-destructive testing, failure analysis, calculations, design verifications or condition monitoring. What is unique about us is that we offer all these services: We are a one-stop shop for the cross-disciplinary skills and facilities you need to succeed with wind energy, from practical welding to advanced, strategic advice – and we are easy to work with.
We are accredited by DANAK, the Danish Accreditation body. This means that we are continuously assessed against internationally recognised standards to demonstrate competence, impartiality and performance capability. Accreditation is assurance that the products comply with the applicable rules. Our accreditation is your guarantee of our unique position.
Technical guidance and EMC consultancy
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Do you need engineering services and problem solving of the highest standard?
Welding consultancy
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If you need to optimise and improve welding processes or find the reason for welding defects.
Lifetime assessment of wind turbine structures
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Lifetime assessment helps you plan and avoid breakdowns in wind turbine towers and foundations.
Advanced structural engineering with CFD
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We offer computational fluid dynamic analysis within various areas, performed in flow conditions.
Type testing of marine products
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Advisory services and accredited type testing of marine products.
Extreme test for harsh environments
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Our extreme and special test provides evidence of the product's resistance to harsh environments.
Cathodic protection optimisation
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Cathodic protection (CP) services, incl. design, modelling, survey and retrofit life extension.
Materials selection and corrosion protection
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The correct materials and optimal corrosion protection gives your product a longer service life.
Mechanical tests - Vibration, shock, impact and drop
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Document that your product can withstand the conditions it will be exposed to during normal use.
Test and analysis of plastics and composites
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Ensure optimal material selection and design when working with polymers and composites.
Mechanical test of large components
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Measuring of the characteristics and responses needed for evaluation of structures and systems.
Climatic test chamber for tests of large components
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Test of large components, structures and functional systems in realistic atmospheric conditions.
Mechanical tests of large structures
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Full-size structures can be exposed to static and dynamic multi-axial loads or fatigue testing.
Structural engineering and analysis
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Structural engineering and analysis ensures knowledge of the service life of constructions and structures.
Coatings extend lifetime of offshore wind structures
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First experiences with coatings for offshore wind structures.