Vicoter @ JEMP “Evento Alumni”
On 1st April, Vicoter (www.vicoter.it) participated to the “Evento Alumni” of JEMP (www.jemp.it), a university entrepreneurial initiative in which passion and talent are realized in a path of growth and development of all the involved students, that belong to several … Continued
Vibrations in an autogyro: a Vicoter matter
Authors: Eng. Potito Cordisco, Senior Project Manager, Vicoter Eng. Mauro Terraneo, Chief Technical Officer, Vicoter Autogyros are very special flying machine. Similar, at first glance, to the helicopters, they share with their more known cousins only the use of rotating … Continued
Certification of Trakka camera for helicopter flight
To obtain the permit to flight, new equipments installed on a helicopter need to be evaluated even against vibratory behaviour.Engineers of Vicoter (www.vicoter.it) were called from the DOA Boggi Aeronautics (www.boggiaeronautics.eu) to perform the experimental tests needed to demonstrate the … Continued
Characterization of the dynamic behaviour of the Aries hexacopter
Authors: Eng. Potito Cordisco, Senior Project Manager, VicoterEng. Mauro Terraneo, Chief Technical Officer, Vicoter Drones are liable to high vibratory levels generated by the rotors and eventually amplified by the resonances of the structure. Slenderness of the arms supporting … Continued
Aeroelastic static verification of a solar tracker
Authors: Eng.Potito Cordisco PhD, Senior Project Manager, Vicoter Eng. Mauro Terraneo, Chief Technical Officer, Vicoter The increase in demand of solar energy dictated by the ecological transition, the augment of the price of fossil fuels and the desire for … Continued
Modal analysis of a 20 meters long wind turbine blade
Vicoter (www.vicoter.it) is a consulting company that has been operating in the field of mechanical structures and measurements for more than ten years, mainly in the dynamics sector. Its main activities concern the experimental survey of vibrations and noise, the … Continued
Application of photogrammetry to wind turbine blades
Vicoter (www.vicoter.it) is a consulting company founded in 2009, operating in the field of static and dynamic measurements of mechanical structures. Its organizational flexibility, its instrumentation, as well as its wide-ranging skills, make Vicoter the most suitable partner for solving … Continued
Design of a solar tracker for wind loads
The increasing demand of green energy brought to a request to improve the efficiency of solar panels and of their capability to generate electricity. Among the various solutions studied and developed, the most diffused one is, for sure, the solar … Continued
Flutter analyses of Bristell B23E
During the flight, an aircraft can be subjected to various vibratory phenomena induced by aerodynamics. Generally speaking, such phenomena can be divided in two broad categories: forced responses and instabilities. In the formers, the structure is loaded by aerodynamic forces … Continued
