Reconstrucción virtual y patrimonio industrial. Aplicación al caso del molino de mar de vilanova i la geltrú. Análisis energético undimotriz mediante prototipo real con simulación mecánica
- Autores: Manuel Lopez Membrilla
- Directores de la Tesis: José Luis Lapaz Castillo (dir. tes.)
- Lectura: En la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) ( España ) en 2017
- Idioma: español
- Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Fernando Julián Pérez (presid.), Francisco Hernández Abad (secret.), Xavier Espinach (voc.)
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- Tesis en acceso abierto en: TDX
- Resumen
The general context of this thesis is the current framework regarding the Industrial Heritage and the sort of possible actions following the guidelines recommended by the London Charter to act and also to manage all the documentation and information used in the research and development of this kind of works. Having as an important component or key tool throughout the development process the use of different techniques and existing methodologies, the two main aims of this thesis are the formal and functional definition of a flour sea mill, formerly placed in ¿El Far¿ beach, in Vilanova i la Geltrú, as well as the design of its related mechanical prototype, all under the use of the possibilities provided by computer networks.In this way, all the documentation and existing information has been compiled, including the only available plan based on a sketch drawn by the inventor and builder of this flour mill. This plan and the documentation and information got from the newspaper ¿Diario de Barcelona¿ of that time (1808) have been the two most important data sources to analyse, evaluate and select, initially allowing to define concepts based on sketches of formal and functional aspects of the mill and, later on, to carry out its virtual reconstruction.On the other hand, the archaeological remains found in ¿El Far¿ beach, belonging to one of the three modules of this former facility, the so-called central module, have been the great reference, not only for the constructive and architectural definition of the mill, but also for its thorough analysis in order to define and justify the other two modules, which, in the past, completed the whole flour mill: the so-called lighthouse module with its vertical wheels, which powered up the grindstones placed on the first floor, that is to say, the grind area level, and the sea module, which included the pendulums¿ mechanism moved by the beating of waves and its resulting water pumping towards the central module.Based on these mentioned remains, a three-dimensional parametric digitalisation work has been carried out using the technique of photogrammetry and a digital scanner, what has made possible to document them graphically. From then on, it has been possible to initially define the conceptual design of the all three modules that configured the sea mill, and, later on, to define parametrically the virtual reconstruction of all the modules and components of this kind of mill, using specific 3D-modelling software and taking into account different work and definition hypothesis, together with the applied methodology.Eventually, this thesis also considers, as an unavoidable goal, the checking of the feasibility and the proper operation of the entire mill, and specially the efficiency of the used source of energy: the sea waves. In this sense, it has been necessary to carry out an experimental study focused on the design and construction of a testing mechanical prototype based on the use of an extensiometric gauge to measure the forces of the waves. This is the so-called PM-SEOM (Mechanical Prototype of Energy Simulation for Sea Waves), which placed inside the sea, has allowed to obtain the amount of energy and power produced by the waves in the Mediterranean coast of Vilanova, and, particularly, in ¿El Far¿ beach, also called ¿de Sant Cristòfol¿, in which the former whole sea mill was located and where today only a part of its central module still remains. In fact, wave energy was the only source of energy used in this facility to raise water, by means of a pumping system, to a height of about eight meters. The pumps were driven by an articulated system based on a wooden structure and some shovels, or pendulums, which were moved only by the battering of the waves. All in all a mechanical system that, then and for sure today, could be considered as a highly efficient and fantastic environmentally-friendly engineering example.
