Dr Terence Macquart
Current positions
Senior Lecturer
School of Civil, Aerospace and Design Engineering
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Research interests
My research focuses on the applications of composite materials at the structure level. To this aim, I develop numerical methods and frameworks designed to take advantage of the tailorability of composite materials as a means to improve structural performances. In particular, the aeroelastic optimisation of wind turbine rotors is one of my main research interest.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Fatigue prediction for non-conventional laminates application to wind turbine blades
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Dates
01/01/2019 to 18/06/2019
RS International Exchange Scheme
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Dates
21/11/2016 to 20/02/2017
RS International Exchange Scheme
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Dates
21/11/2016 to 20/02/2017
Thesis supervisions
Truss-based Natural Material Wind Turbine Towers
Supervisors
Optimal aeroelastic tailoring of wind turbines
Supervisors
On the sensitivity and validation of bending, twisting, and bend-twist coupling behaviour of wind turbine blade cross-sections
Supervisors
A design approach for super-efficient Wrapped Tow Reinforced Hierarchical Space Frames
Supervisors
The effect of geometric nonlinearity on the aeroelastic stability of wind turbine blades
Supervisors
Non-linear Bi-axial fatigue Testing of Wind Turbine Blades
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
01/09/2025Continuously extruded wrapped tow reinforced truss beams
Journal of Reinforced Plastics and Composites
Gradient-based structural optimization of a wind turbine blade root section including high-cycle fatigue constraints
Engineering Optimization
Multi-rotor wind turbines
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
Proof of concept of a nonlinear structural stability constraint for aeroelastic optimisation
Aeronautical Journal
WrapToR composite truss joints
Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing
Related people
Professor Paul Weaver
Professor in Lightweight Structures
School of Civil, Aerospace and Design Engineering
Professor Alberto Pirrera
Professor of Nonlinear Structural Mechanics
School of Civil, Aerospace and Design Engineering
Professor Benjamin King Sutton Woods
Professor of Aerospace Structures
School of Civil, Aerospace and Design Engineering
Mr Vincent Maes
Senior Research Associate
School of Civil, Aerospace and Design Engineering