Spin Out Day 2017 took place in the DTU Skylab. At the event, students from the BSc course Innovation and Product Development present their business ideas to
the course responibles, Associate Professor Thomas Howard and Jakob Andersen, and leaders from the business community.
Facts about WhiteWind
WhiteWind: White Etching Crack bearing failures in wind turbines is a project funded with DKK 18,283,720 including overhead by the Innovation
Fund. WhiteWind is a Grand Solutions project.
Hilmar Kjartansson Danielsen from DTU Wind Energy shares the project management of WhiteWind with Expanite A/S.
Researchers at DTU Mechanical Engineering
Senior Researcher Thomas Lundin Christiansen is work package leader for WP2: Surface Engineering.
Professor Christian Frithiof Niordson from Solid Mechanics is leader of WP4: Fracture Modelling.
Partners
Vestas Wind Systems A/S, Expanite A/S, SKF Gmbh, RWTH Aachen University, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Fact about MixTi
MixTi, Mixed interstitial phases; a novel approach to tailoring the surface properties of titanium
The project is a FTP project funded with DKK 5.9 million including overhead, and Thomas Lundin Christiansen is project coordinator.
Researchers at DTU Mechanical Engineering
Senior Researcher Thomas Lundin Christiansen, Professor Marcel Somers, Associate Professor Grete Winther, Senior Researcher Kristian Vinter Dahl,
Section of Materials and Surface Engineering.
Researchers from other DTU departments
Associate Professor Kenny Ståhl, DTU Chemistry.
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