Development of a linear guiding on a composite cylinder

Abstract: The quest to diversify the renewable energy producing systems has led to the development of wave energy converters. To get to a viable commercial wave energy converter system it is very crucial to have a levelized cost to energy for the system. This is done driving forward the system level optimization and upgradation for the whole wave energy converter. In this thesis, the focus was the support for the development of a full scaled composite pretension cylinder. Different predictive models were identified and studied to characterize the effects due to the cyclic reciprocating contacts on the composite pretension cylinder. The results of which, gave an early input to move forward towards more accurate testing leading to the development of a test rig. The test rig once developed could provide with the long term required data so that the actual composite pretension cylinder be designed and integrated onto the wave energy converter.