Job Title: John Elder Chair of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Research Director

Key Responsibilities: Management of departments research programme

Qualifications: Nigel Barltrop graduated from Southampton University in 1973 and worked as a bridge structural engineer for 4 years followed by 18 years in the offshore/marine industry

Office Address: Henry Dyer Building (Room HD 2.44) 100 Montrose Street Glasgow G4 0LZ

• 2nd Year - Advanced Marine Concepts: Offshore Engineering
  
• 3rd Year - Marine Systems: Engines, Pumps, etc.
  
• 4th Year - Marine Propulsion, Finite Element Analysis

• Structures
  
• Fluid loading
  
• Use of statistical reliability techniques in the design and assessment of offshore platforms

Industrial work has included:

• Detailed design of a fixed gas platform
  
• Detailed design of a Tension Leg Platform
• Numerous conceptual design and assessment projects on offshore structures, ships, wind loading, aero-elasticity and wind turbines.

Professional Responsibilities:

• Appointed Head of Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering in 1995
  
• Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers
  
• Fellow of Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland
  
• Fellow of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects
  
• Member of Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers
  
• Chairman of ISSC committee: Floating Production, 1998-2000
  
• Member of two ISO committees of TC67/SC7
  

1. WG5: Floating Systems - Structures 2.
2. WG3: Fixed Steel Structures (Offshore) - Analysis Modelling
   

• Member of RINA Publications Committee
• External examiner for the MSc in Subsea Engineering at Heriot Watt University and MSc in Offshore engineering at University of Newcastle
  
• Assessor of Marintek for the Norwegian Research Council, 1999
  
• Member of SUT Committee on Environmental Forces

Books

1. Floating Structures: A guide for design and analysis (Editor and contributing Author) CMPT/OPL 1998
   
2. Dynamics of Fixed Marine Structures, MTD / Butterworth- Heinemann, 1991. (762 pages)
   
3. Fluid Loading on Fixed Offshore Structures, Background to a proposed revision of Offshore Installations: Guidance on Design and Construction. Issued October 1987, published by HMSO 1990. (480 pages)

Papers

1. Floating production committee report (chairman of report coordinators), ISSC 2000, Nagasaki, Japan
   
2. UK Dept of Energy Guidance Notes, Water Waves Kinematics, Advanced Research Workshop, Molde, Norway 1989. Published by Kluwer Academic Publishers 1990
   
3. Wave enhancement due to blockage in semisubmersible and TLP structures, J. Ocean Engineering, vol28/4, pp 375-396, 2000
   
4. Applicaton of failure and fracture criteria during a tanker head-on collision, J. Ocean Engineering, 2000
   
5. Wave forces on horizontally submerged rectangular cylinder at low KC numbers, J. Ocean Engineering., 27(2000) 291-313
   
6. An experimental investigation on hydrodynamic coefficients for vertical truncated rectangular cylinders due to regular and random waves, J. Ocean Engineering , vol27, pp 291-313, 2000
   
7. A method for the analysis of the extreme response of an offshore floating and weathervaning platform subjected to wave, current and wind from different directions, J SUT. Vol 24 no1, 1999
   
8. Lift and Drag Forces on a Cylinder in the Wake of an Upstream Cylinder. International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, St John's, 1999
   
9. Wave-current forces on rectangular cylinder at low KC numbers, Proceedings of the 9th (1999) International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference, Brest, France, May30-June 4, 1999
   
10. Official Discusser: Floating Production, International Ship Structures Congress, Trondheim 1997
    
11. Floating and compliant platforms: response to environmental loads, E&P Forum, Workshop on uncertainties in the design process, UK, 1995
    
12. Official Discusser: Quasi - Static Load Effects, International Ship Structures Congress, Newfoundland, 1994
    
13. Optimised Inspection Planning of Offshore Structures; A Probabilistic Approach, BOSS94, 1994
    
14. Multiple Unit Floating Offshore Wind Farm (MUFOW), BWEA/DTI Seminar: Prospects for offshore wind energy, June 1993. Reprinted in Wind Engineering 17 No 4, 1993
    
15. The Implications of Fatigue on the Cost of Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines, British Wind Energy Association Conf. 1993
    
16. Rapporteur's Report, Integrity of Offshore Structures Conference, Glasgow, 1993
    
17. Limit State Code Checking of Offshore Concrete Structures, BOSS92, London, 1992
    
18. Ship Structural Management for Improved Safety, RINA International Conference: Tankers and Bulk Carriers -The Way Ahead. London, December 1992
    
19. Bulk Carrier Losses: Are Tougher Steels Needed? The Naval Architect, May 1992
    
20. Structural Analysis of Floating Production Platforms, FPS Conference, London, November 1990
    
21. Offshore Platforms: Design of Two Southern North Sea Jackets, Proc. Instn. Civ. Engnrs. Part 1 Feb. 1988. (Awarded the R A Carr Premium by the ICE)
    
22. Global Analysis of Jacket Structures, Offshore Tubular joints Conference, London, June 1985
    
23. The Influence of Node Flexibility on the Behaviour of Jacket Frames, CIRIA-UEG Report UR22, January 1984. (116 pages)
    
24. Review of the papers presented at the Fourth International Symposium on Offshore Engineering, Rio de Janeiro 1983, Middle East Construction
    
25. Node Flexibility, Offshore Research Focus, October 1983
    
26. Fatigue of Large Stiffened Plate Structures. 2nd Int. Conf. on Offshore Welded Structures, Welding Institute, November 1982
    
27. Stress Concentrations in Tubular T-Joints - An Extension of the Ring Analogy. CIRIA Tech Note UDC: 691: 714: 620: 17, 1978

Mountain walking, Scottish country dancing.