News
November 30, 2018
The OFFshore ITRH delivers real impact for Woodside
Floating Production Storage and Offloading facilities (FPSOs) offshore Western Australia are exposed to persistent Southern Ocean swells which may induce onerous roll motions. The topside operational processes of FPSOs, and personnel safety, can both be adversely affected by excessive roll motions. Accurate prediction of roll motions is therefore essential for efficient FPSO design in this…
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November 27, 2018
Greg Ivey elected a Fellow of the Australasian Fluid Mechanics Society
Congratulations goes out to OFFshore ITRH Chief Investigator, Greg Ivey, who has recently been elected a Fellow of the Australasian Fluid Mechanics Society (AFMS). AFMS is an independent, non-profit society that supports and fosters interest in fluid mechanics and related disciplines in the Australasian region. AFMS provides a forum through publishing and promoting relevant material…
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November 6, 2018
The First Vietnam Symposium on Advances in Offshore Engineering
In early November, OFFshore Hub members headed to Hanoi, Vietnam for the first Vietnam Symposium on Advances in Offshore Engineering (VSOE) at the National University of Civil Engineering. The VSOE, in conjunction with universities and research bodies in Vietnam, brought together researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and entrepreneurs to discuss and promote technology and policy changes affecting…
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October 29, 2018
Phil Watson elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering
It has been announced by the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering (ATSE) that OFFshore ITRH Director, Phil Watson, has been chosen as one of 25 experts to be elected as an Academy Fellow. By bringing together the brightest minds in technology, engineering and science, ATSE aims to ensure that Australia remains a world leading…
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October 16, 2018
Spotlight on PhD Student Rasoul Hejazi
Rasoul Hejazi’s work tackles the fundamental dynamic behaviour of large diameter steel catenary riser (SCR) systems under random ocean waves and currents in the North West Shelf (NWS). Rasoul’s refined fatigue design procedure for SCRs will enable the use of larger diameter SCRs by moving the touchdown point (TDP) and thereby causing the distribution of…
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September 18, 2018
Spotlight on Research Fellow Joe Tom
Joe Tom is a Research Fellow in the Project 4: Novel Anchors and Subsea Foundation Systems project stream. Joe’s research is focusing on mooring line trenching and its impact on anchor capacity. A multi-disciplinary approach is vital in defining this concept, and Joe is drawing on the expertise from across the OFFshore Industrial Transformation Research…
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September 13, 2018
Creating real impact through close collaboration with our Industry Partners
In the true spirit of collaboration, OFFshore ITRH Research Fellow Ian Milne of the Project 2 stream (Wave-structure interaction) has been working closely with Senior Metocean Engineer Matthew Zed from Woodside Energy to develop a new software tool to efficiently predict the hydrodynamic motions of a floating facility from long term wave hindcasts, which is…
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September 5, 2018
Training for Early Career Researchers
The OFFshore Hub has joined forces with the Australian Centre for LNG Futures (ACLNGF) to provide PhD students and Early Career Researchers (ECRs) with training opportunities in a variety of key areas. To date three workshops have been held in the Woodside OceanWorks space, with a fourth planned for next week. The first two workshops focused on Science…
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August 30, 2018
Collaboration with the Alan Turing Institute
In late 2017 OFFshore ITRH Chief Investigators Dr Ed Cripps and Professor Melinda Hodkiewicz were visited by highly regarded mathematician Professor Mark Girolami of The Alan Turing Institute (ATI), the national institute for data science and AI in the UK, to discuss potential collaboration. This led to the signing of a collaboration agreement between UWA and ATI…
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August 1, 2018
Spotlight on PhD Student Hongchao Wang
Hongchao Wang is one of the PhD students in the Project 2: Wave-structure interaction project stream. His research is focused on understanding the mechanisms of gap resonance under external waves. He is exploring how transient wave groups influence the gap resonance in between two offloading vessels by measuring the wave-generated hydrodynamic forces and their effect on offloading…
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