ACS Australia’s senior engineer George Frake III will be presenting at the Blue Economy CRC Participants Workshop 2025, sharing key insights from ACS Australia’s ongoing contributions to Australia’s offshore renewable energy transition with Carnegie Clean Energy.
📅 27th – 29th May 2025
📍 Paranaple Convention Centre, Devonport, Tasmania
Agenda: Participants Workshop 2025 Program
The presentation will focus on the MoorPower Tensioner and the learnings from Lab to Sea and Back. Sharing the critical learnings gained from the real-world deployment of MoorPower an innovative wave energy solution designed to provide reliable offshore power for moored vessels.
While much can be learned in the lab, George will explore how the act of physically demonstrating a system at sea offers unparalleled insight. His talk will delve into the successes and engineering challenges of the ACS Australia developed tensioner system, including field performance under real-world operation and material behaviour.
The Blue Economy CRC Participants Workshop is an important annual event that brings together researchers, engineers, and industry leaders advancing ocean energy and aquaculture solutions. ACS Australia is proud to be a contributor to this CRC.
Looking forward to seeing you in Devonport! 🌊
Presenter Bio:
George Frake III completed his Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Spring 2019. He began working full-time with Lockheed Martin Aeronautics as a Fuselage Stress Analyst on the JSF Program. Regular tasking included producing static margins of safety and providing limit stress data for service life analysis. Accomplishments include the redesign of several major bulkheads to address short-life locations found during full-scale durability testing, as well as the analysis and release of new production and retrofit configurations for new arms capabilities.
Though most daily tasks involved metallic structures, George was introduced to composite structures through an Internal Research and Development project. The IRAD project investigated the use of carbon fibre webs and caps, pi-shaped preforms and compression moulded stiffeners as wing carry-thru structure. With exposure to composite structure, George became the main analyst to disposition production non-conformances involving composite skins.
George joined the Advanced Composite Structures Australia team after moving to Melbourne in the beginning of 2023. He quickly began supporting several projects, including the design of spring tensioner systems for wave energy projects and analysis of structure for autonomous vehicles.