Category: Wave tanks

Edinburgh Designs have successfully installed eight paddles at a new towing tank at the Gdansk University of Technology, Poland.

The tank has been featured in the Poland at Sea magazine.

Edinburgh Designs equipment forms the centerpiece of the new state-of-the-art maritime facility at University College Cork’s Beaufort Building. Edinburgh Designs have supplied 16 x 2.5m flap wavemakers for a deep water flume, along with a hydraulic movable floor.  A coastal flume has been fitted with 8  x 0.7m flap wavemakers in a movable module which allows tank water depth to be varied.  The third basin, the Ocean Wave Basin, will have wave generation provided by by the relocated 40 x 0.7m flap wavemaker originally built by Edinburgh Designs for UCC in 1993.

The building situated in Ringaskiddy, Co Cork and was officially opened by Taoiseach, Enda Kenny.

The facility was featured in the Irish Times and the Irish Examiner.

The Flowave tank has been featured in a promotional video by ABB motion control.

ABBs drives were utilised throughout the facility and their motors power each of the 168 wave paddles.

Edinburgh Designs have installed six pistons into a new coastal research basin at the University of Rijeka in Croatia.

Edinburgh Designs have successfully fitted new wavemakers at the Davidson Laboratory at the Stevens Institute in Hoboken, New Jersey.

The six independent, absorbing paddles are a big step up from the ancient, hydraulic flap that was used previously .

Edinburgh designs have been awarded the contract to supply sixteen 1.8m hinge depth flap paddle wave makers to the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center (ASCC) new W² – Wind/Wave – tank.

.  Read more on The University of Maine’s webpage.

Edinburgh University’s spectacular new circular wave and current tank, designed and built by Edinburgh Designs, has been officially opened.  This tank can create 360 degree waves and current, independently of each other, and has been designed to simulate wave conditions anywhere in European seas.  Waves are created using 168 paddles arranged around the tank, and strong tidal flow conditions can be simulated using 28 propellers located under the floor.  The centre of the floor can be raised to the surface to assist in setting up devices.

Read more and see a video of the tank in operation on the BBC news website.

Construction is underway on the new Beaufort Laboratory which will house University College Cork’s new National Ocean Test Facility.  Edinburgh Designs is supplying 16 2.5m flap wavemakers for a deep water flume, along with a hydraulically driven movable floor, for the main deep water basin.  A coastal flume will be fitted with 8 0.7m flap wakemakers, also supplied by Edinburgh Designs.  The third basin, the Ocean Wave Basin, will have wave generation provided by the relocated 40 x 0.7m flap wavemaker originally built by Edinburgh Designs for UCC in 1993 .

See artist’s impressions of the new building here.