Medusa Waterbag

Location

Areas of Scarce Drinking Water

Dates

June 2000 - Present

Client

Medusa Water International

Structural Engineer

Buro Happold

Project :

Turn the concept of using extremely large fabric bags for the transportation of fresh water into a commercial product. The aim is to design and build bags the size of three football pitches to be more economical than desalination plants.

My Role :

  • Create software to parametrically generate geometry, properties and loading ready for analysis
  • Create software to tightly couple fluid density gradient pressure loading with structural dynamic relaxation solver
  • Analysis of various towing scenarios
  • Optimisation of bag shape between construction and in-service constraints