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Calvário, M., Sutherland, L.S. and Guedes Soares, C. (2018), “A review of the applications composite materials in wave and tidal energy devices”, Maritime Transportation and Harvesting of Sea Resources, Guedes Soares, C. & Teixeira A.P. (Eds.), Taylor & Francis Group, London, UK, pp. 1111-1117

The use of marine composite materials, especially Glass Reinforced Polymers (GRP), offer many advantages such as low weight (for transport, installation, and operation), durability (fatigue and corrosion), low maintenance and ease of producing complex seamless forms. This paper presents an overview of the applications of composite materials to wave and tidal energy devices. It identifies the main shapes of components used and the main types of loading so as to identify representative components in composite materials that are worthy of further study in order to produce optimised structural designs that can be applied for these type of devices. The paper also reviews various research studies concerning the developments of the composite material solutions for these types of devices. General considerations about the study of composite materials in the floats of wave energy converters are also presented.

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