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Newcastle Upon Tyne, GB

Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

Arbitration case concerning ship-board cranes. Contribution (to date) has included the following. Meeting with the lawyers. Reading in-service loading & specification data, previous reports and design standards. Writing report with evaluation based on calculations.Arbitration case (freelance) concerning ship-board cranes. Advice provided on Survey.

Northumberland, England, United Kingdom

Design Appraisal role - heavy mechanical equipment for ship-board wind turbine installation duties

Northumberland

Design Appraisal role - heavy mechanical equipment for ship-board pipe-laying duties

Glasgow

Contributing to the core work of the office: marine transportation projects. This includes integrity assessments on the load, sea fastenings and transportation vessel hull structures. Additional work includes checking & signing design documents & drawings authored by colleagues. Further responsibility for auditing (those existing) & developing engineering.

London, United Kingdom

Writing calculations complying with ABS Rules, generally the ABS 'Guide for Certification of Lifting Appliances' & API 2C 'Offshore Pedestal-Mounted Cranes'. The role included: representing the company in client facing meetings on technical & scope of work issues; being authorised to liaise directly with client companies on technical.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

STAAD analysis; hand calculations; Code checking; lifting, handling & installation procedures; reporting. Role included: leading team on assigned design tasks; representing the interests of the design team at project internal and client facing meetings.Projects:TALISMAN CLAYMORE PLATFORM.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Analysis using STAAD models, hand calculations, Code checking to AISC WSD & EC3, lifting procedures and reporting. Structural engineering support assignment undertaken in New Zealand for drilling unit installation included liaising with sub-contract fabricators and representing the company at client facing meetings.Projects:FORTIES ALPHA SATELLITE.

Writing specification, design intent reports, design analysis & reporting for pipe handling equipment. Role included representing the company in client facing design review meetings, guiding work of team-member draughtsmen, designers & graduate engineers as necessary.Project:SUBSEA7 PIPE-LAY VESSEL.

Schiedam

Development work on in-house crane analysis program. Comparison of the requirements of two national crane design codes. Writing of installation procedure for crane hoist ropes. Design of fixed platforms to support jib during installation. Investigation into causes of sagging hoist ropes using catenary analysis.

Delft Area, Netherlands

Leading the section team in mechanical design, representing the team at internal & leading sub-contractor facing design review meetings, design analysis, Code checking to LR Rules and managing sub-contract design engineering activity. Analysis used hand calculations, self-developed loading program and fatigue analysis.Project:PIONEERING SPIRIT.

London, United Kingdom

Review Projects: S/Y Goliath crane; jib, overhead, mast &.dockside gantry cranes; mechanical lift docks; scissor lift; lifeboat davits; derricks; shear legs; j- pipelay systems; heavy lift tower systems;. lifts; pontoons and linkspans; mod vessel access door.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Projects included MPSV EDDA FJORD Design analysis of Flotel gangway structure & mechanical aspects. FPSO BONGA Dropped object study for operations by stores crane.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Design analysis, Code checking to AISC criteria & reporting using LR Rules, hand calculations, OPTIMOOR and beam analysis spreadsheets. Activity included liaising with construction teams.Projects:FPSO BONGA;SAKHALIN ISLAND;CONOCO BRITSATS.

Monaco

Design analysis using STAAD & hand calculations and reporting.Project EXXON GENERIC foundations of hoisting equipment, chain table access platform, gantry walkways and pipe supports.Project:EXXON GENERIC.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Analysis using hand calculations & spreadsheets and DNV Code checking.Projects:FPSO GLOBAL PRODUCER III;FABRICATION SHOP;FLOATING DOCK.

Salmesbury

Hand calculations, spreadsheets & Mathcad in accordance with project standards.Project:EUROFIGHTER.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Design, analysis and checking to LR, DNV & MoD Rules (as applicable). Resources used included FEA, DNV Nauticus program suite, hand calculations, spreadsheets, in-house & self-developed programs.Projects:FPSO CURLEW;FPSO TRITON;FPSO GLAS DOWR;FPSO NORTH SEA PRODUCER;SMIT PIONEER;MV BATTLE AXE;RN FRIGATES, LPH & CVSG;AMBASSADOR.

London, United Kingdom

Lifting Appliances & Materials Handling Department (London). For marine, offshore & industrial cranes, lifeboat launching equipment inc. davits and other lifting appliances. This required using the LR Code for Lifting Appliances in a Marine Environment, national standards, in-house crane analysis & self-developed programs, NASTRAN FEA and hand.

Barrow In Furness

This work, at the Barrow shipyard, included the following. Contribution to large scale FEA model of a hull section under failure case pressurization. Deck buckling investigation. Shock loading analysis. Design work was in accordance with VSEL standards and MoD Rules. NASTRAN, PATRAN, ABAQUS, BOSOR and hand calculation were used. Short courses attended.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

This work in Cambridge entailed stress analysis by hand calculations using MIL & Lockheed design standards and loading data from global FEA models.Projects:TRISTAR TANKER CONVERSION;METEOR.

Stress analysis by hand calculations using MIL standards and loading data from global FEA models.Project:Fighter A/C.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Stress analysis by hand calculations using MIL & Lockheed design standards and loading data from global FEA models.Project:TRISTAR TANKER CONVERSION.

Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom

Use of company and MoD standards, stress analysis by hand calculations and development work from vibration tests.Project:NIMROD AEW.

Brough, East Yorkshire

From Jan 1979 four periods totalling 48 months.This work at Brough & Hatfield required using company and MoD standards, in-house programs and hand calculations, with loading data from a global FEA models as appropriate.Projects:BAe 146;JETSTREAM;HAWK;SEA HARRIER;BUCCANEER;ALARM.

Northumberland

Hands-on fabrication of steelwork for chain suspended access system used in shipbuilding. This work included setting-out, cutting, burning, welding, painting, assembly of product, chains & components, dispatch of assembled units.

Laindon, Essex

Assigned to the Heavy Truck Development Department, at the Engineering Centre in Essex, required writing procedures, participating in tests & writing reports for design development activity and database development & presentation to department.

Engineering Council Examinations, Chartered Engineer - Member Royal Institution Of Naval Architects

Part II Examinations: Dynamics of Mechanical Systems Mechanics of Solids Materials

Msc, Structural Design

Project: 'Finite Element Analysis of a Fibre Reinforced Plastic Structure' using LUSAS FEA, hand calculations and self-developed programs.

Hnd, Mechanical Engineering

Examinations in Mathematics, Mechanics, Fluids, Thermodynamics, Materials, Design, Production & Control Six months training in steel.