|
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
|