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PhD Opportunities Funding available Civil, Maritime and Environmental Engineering supported by RAEng and The Alan Turing Institute. If Interested in any of the above please email [email protected] Integrated geoscience approach to cost-effective seabed characterisation as an enabler for offshore renewables Susan Gourvenec (Infrastructure), Justin Dix & Tim Henstock (Ocean & Earth Sciences) (SMMI). The project will be carried out in collaboration with Dr Mark Vardy, Director and Head of R&D at SAND Geophysics. This project is funded by a Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies in Intelligent & Resilient Ocean Engineering and the Southampton Marine & Maritime Institute The project will investigate if integration of 3D-UHR (ultra high resolution) geophysical data and conventional 1D geotechnical site investigation data can provide a cost-effective approach to determine geotechnical parameters for direct offshore engineering design. The project will initially work on existing 3D-UHR datasets and geotechnical site investigation data (CPT and borehole), and involve pre- and post-stack processing of the 3D- UHR data; adaptation of current inversion techniques (developed by Industry partner Mark Vardy and colleagues) to extract all key physical properties along with sub-surface heterogeneity characterisation; and propagation of this quantitative characterisation in to foundation design. Example of 3D acoustic inversion (Vardy) Key skills: A First Class Degree in a relevant Engineering or Earth Science discipline. Data analysis skills would be beneficial. For further information please email [email protected]
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PhD Opportunities
Funding availableCivil, Maritime and Environmental
Engineering
Responsive mooring systems for floating renewable energy facilitiesSusan Gourvenec (Infrastructure), Adam Sobey & Gabe Weymouth (Maritime Engineering)
Determination of operational envelopes for bulk carriersDominic Taunton (Maritime Engineering), Ivan Haigh (Ocean & Earth Sciences)Susan Gourvenec (Infrastructure)
Gourvenec 2019 https://theconversation.com/mystery-of-the-cargo-ships-that-sink-when-their-cargo-suddenly-liquefies-101158
The project will include development of the coupled ship-cargo model through numerical modelling and experimental testing in the towing tank. The student will work with oceanographers to integrate the ship-cargo model with metocean data to define operational envelopes for bulk cargo carriers. The student will also work with geotechnical engineers to understand the variables affecting the granular cargo during liquefaction
Key-skills: A First Class Degree in Maritime or Ocean Engineering.
This project is funded by a Lloyd’s Register Foundation Grant, Solid Bulk Cargo: Strategies for Effective Control, a JIP with 25 international, multi-disciplinary and cross sector partners –although not all will be directly involved in this project – that is led by the SMMI.
The project will investigate if responsive mooring systems can provide a feasible option to reduce anchor size for floating facilities. A mooring system that absorbs some of the peak dynamic loading would lead to smaller loads being transferred to the anchor, enabling smaller anchors that will be more cost effective to install. Development of more efficient mooring systems is particularly important for the transition to renewable energy since the lower energy yield per structure compared to oil and gas producing structures requires many hundred more structures to be moored to the seabed for the same total energy yield.
Key-skills: A First Class Degree in an engineering or physical sciences discipline or applied mathematics. Experimental and numerical analysis capabilities would be beneficial.
Example mooring system for floating renewable facilityThis project is funded by a Royal Academy of
Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies in Intelligent & Resilient Ocean Engineering. Supervisors supported by RAEng and The Alan Turing Institute.
If Interested in any of the above please email [email protected]
Originally Presented at the CMEE Showcase, 24th January 2020
PhD Opportunities
Funding availableCivil, Maritime and Environmental
Engineering
Responsive mooring systems for floating renewable energy facilitiesSusan Gourvenec (Infrastructure), Adam Sobey & Gabe Weymouth (Maritime Engineering)
Determination of operational envelopes for bulk carriersDominic Taunton (Maritime Engineering), Ivan Haigh (Ocean & Earth Sciences)Susan Gourvenec (Infrastructure)
Gourvenec 2019 https://theconversation.com/mystery-of-the-cargo-ships-that-sink-when-their-cargo-suddenly-liquefies-101158
The project will include development of the coupled ship-cargo model through numerical modelling and experimental testing in the towing tank. The student will work with oceanographers to integrate the ship-cargo model with metocean data to define operational envelopes for bulk cargo carriers. The student will also work with geotechnical engineers to understand the variables affecting the granular cargo during liquefaction
Key-skills: A First Class Degree in Maritime or Ocean Engineering.
This project is funded by a Lloyd’s Register Foundation Grant, Solid Bulk Cargo: Strategies for Effective Control, a JIP with 25 international, multi-disciplinary and cross sector partners –although not all will be directly involved in this project – that is led by the SMMI.
The project will investigate if responsive mooring systems can provide a feasible option to reduce anchor size for floating facilities. A mooring system that absorbs some of the peak dynamic loading would lead to smaller loads being transferred to the anchor, enabling smaller anchors that will be more cost effective to install. Development of more efficient mooring systems is particularly important for the transition to renewable energy since the lower energy yield per structure compared to oil and gas producing structures requires many hundred more structures to be moored to the seabed for the same total energy yield.
Key-skills: A First Class Degree in an engineering or physical sciences discipline or applied mathematics. Experimental and numerical analysis capabilities would be beneficial.
Example mooring system for floating renewable facilityThis project is funded by a Royal Academy of
Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies in Intelligent & Resilient Ocean Engineering. Supervisors supported by RAEng and The Alan Turing Institute.
If Interested in any of the above please email [email protected]
Originally Presented at the CMEE Showcase, 24th January 2020
PhD Opportunities
Funding availableCivil, Maritime and Environmental
Engineering
Responsive mooring systems for floating renewable energy facilitiesSusan Gourvenec (Infrastructure), Adam Sobey & Gabe Weymouth (Maritime Engineering)
Determination of operational envelopes for bulk carriersDominic Taunton (Maritime Engineering), Ivan Haigh (Ocean & Earth Sciences)Susan Gourvenec (Infrastructure)
Gourvenec 2019 https://theconversation.com/mystery-of-the-cargo-ships-that-sink-when-their-cargo-suddenly-liquefies-101158
The project will include development of the coupled ship-cargo model through numerical modelling and experimental testing in the towing tank. The student will work with oceanographers to integrate the ship-cargo model with metocean data to define operational envelopes for bulk cargo carriers. The student will also work with geotechnical engineers to understand the variables affecting the granular cargo during liquefaction
Key-skills: A First Class Degree in Maritime or Ocean Engineering.
This project is funded by a Lloyd’s Register Foundation Grant, Solid Bulk Cargo: Strategies for Effective Control, a JIP with 25 international, multi-disciplinary and cross sector partners –although not all will be directly involved in this project – that is led by the SMMI.
The project will investigate if responsive mooring systems can provide a feasible option to reduce anchor size for floating facilities. A mooring system that absorbs some of the peak dynamic loading would lead to smaller loads being transferred to the anchor, enabling smaller anchors that will be more cost effective to install. Development of more efficient mooring systems is particularly important for the transition to renewable energy since the lower energy yield per structure compared to oil and gas producing structures requires many hundred more structures to be moored to the seabed for the same total energy yield.
Key-skills: A First Class Degree in an engineering or physical sciences discipline or applied mathematics. Experimental and numerical analysis capabilities would be beneficial.
Example mooring system for floating renewable facilityThis project is funded by a Royal Academy of
Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies in Intelligent & Resilient Ocean Engineering. Supervisors supported by RAEng and The Alan Turing Institute.
If Interested in any of the above please email [email protected]
Originally Presented at the CMEE Showcase, 24th January 2020
PhD Opportunities
Funding available
If Interested in any of the above please email [email protected]
Originally Presented at the CMEE Showcase, 24th January 2020
Civil, Maritime and Environmental Engineering
Integrated geoscience approach to cost-effective seabed characterisation as an enabler for offshore renewablesSusan Gourvenec (Infrastructure), Justin Dix & Tim Henstock (Ocean & Earth Sciences)
This project is funded by a Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies in Intelligent & Resilient Ocean Engineering. Supervisors supported by RAEng and ORE Supergen.
Subsea RANGERS: Subsea ROV/AUV-based Nextgen Geotechnical suRveySSusan Gourvenec & David White (Infrastructure)
Key-skills: A First Class Degree in Civil, Maritime or Ocean Engineering.
The project will investigate how shallow seafloor characteristics can be best quantified using devices deployed by ROV/AUV, and how this complements or replaces current practices.The viability of offshore energy developments – whether for hydrocarbons or renewables – is increasingly dependent on reliable characterisation of the very shallow subsurface, to assure the integrity of cables, pipelines, and the ‘subsea factory’ of seabed-founded equipment..
Example of subsea infrastructure requiring near surface seabed characterisation for design
Remote and autonomous vehicles are rapidly gaining improved capabilities, including the adoption of improved robotic manipulation technology and intelligent sensing, posing the opportunity to disrupt seabed survey practice. Conventional practice is to probe and sample the seabed via a drillship, which is a costly business. A future vision is for the drillship to be eliminated and seabed probing and sampling to be conducted entirely via ROV – or in future AUV – technology.
(SMMI). The project will be carried out incollaboration with Dr Mark Vardy, Director and Head of R&D at SAND Geophysics.
This project is funded by a Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies in Intelligent & Resilient Ocean Engineering and the Southampton Marine & Maritime Institute
The project will investigate if integration of 3D-UHR (ultra high resolution) geophysical data and conventional 1D geotechnical site investigation data can provide a cost-effective approach to determine geotechnical parameters for direct offshore engineering design. The project will initially work on existing 3D-UHR datasets and geotechnical site investigation data (CPT and borehole), and involve pre- and post-stack processing of the 3D-UHR data; adaptation of current inversion techniques (developed by Industry partner Mark Vardy and colleagues) to extract all key physical properties along with sub-surface heterogeneity characterisation; and propagation of this quantitative characterisation in to foundation design.
Example of 3D acoustic inversion (Vardy)
Key skills: A First Class Degree in a relevant Engineering or Earth Science discipline. Data analysis skills would be beneficial.
PhD Opportunities
Funding availableCivil, Maritime and Environmental
Engineering
Responsive mooring systems for floating renewable energy facilitiesSusan Gourvenec (Infrastructure), Adam Sobey & Gabe Weymouth (Maritime Engineering)
Determination of operational envelopes for bulk carriersDominic Taunton (Maritime Engineering), Ivan Haigh (Ocean & Earth Sciences)Susan Gourvenec (Infrastructure)
Gourvenec 2019 https://theconversation.com/mystery-of-the-cargo-ships-that-sink-when-their-cargo-suddenly-liquefies-101158
The project will include development of the coupled ship-cargo model through numerical modelling and experimental testing in the towing tank. The student will work with oceanographers to integrate the ship-cargo model with metocean data to define operational envelopes for bulk cargo carriers. The student will also work with geotechnical engineers to understand the variables affecting the granular cargo during liquefaction
Key-skills: A First Class Degree in Maritime or Ocean Engineering.
This project is funded by a Lloyd’s Register Foundation Grant, Solid Bulk Cargo: Strategies for Effective Control, a JIP with 25 international, multi-disciplinary and cross sector partners –although not all will be directly involved in this project – that is led by the SMMI.
The project will investigate if responsive mooring systems can provide a feasible option to reduce anchor size for floating facilities. A mooring system that absorbs some of the peak dynamic loading would lead to smaller loads being transferred to the anchor, enabling smaller anchors that will be more cost effective to install. Development of more efficient mooring systems is particularly important for the transition to renewable energy since the lower energy yield per structure compared to oil and gas producing structures requires many hundred more structures to be moored to the seabed for the same total energy yield.
Key-skills: A First Class Degree in an engineering or physical sciences discipline or applied mathematics. Experimental and numerical analysis capabilities would be beneficial.
Example mooring system for floating renewable facilityThis project is funded by a Royal Academy of
Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies in Intelligent & Resilient Ocean Engineering. Supervisors supported by RAEng and The Alan Turing Institute.
If Interested in any of the above please email [email protected]
Originally Presented at the CMEE Showcase, 24th January 2020
For further information please email
PhD Opportunities
Funding availableCivil, Maritime and Environmental
Engineering
Responsive mooring systems for floating renewable energy facilitiesSusan Gourvenec (Infrastructure), Adam Sobey & Gabe Weymouth (Maritime Engineering)
Determination of operational envelopes for bulk carriersDominic Taunton (Maritime Engineering), Ivan Haigh (Ocean & Earth Sciences)Susan Gourvenec (Infrastructure)
Gourvenec 2019 https://theconversation.com/mystery-of-the-cargo-ships-that-sink-when-their-cargo-suddenly-liquefies-101158
The project will include development of the coupled ship-cargo model through numerical modelling and experimental testing in the towing tank. The student will work with oceanographers to integrate the ship-cargo model with metocean data to define operational envelopes for bulk cargo carriers. The student will also work with geotechnical engineers to understand the variables affecting the granular cargo during liquefaction
Key-skills: A First Class Degree in Maritime or Ocean Engineering.
This project is funded by a Lloyd’s Register Foundation Grant, Solid Bulk Cargo: Strategies for Effective Control, a JIP with 25 international, multi-disciplinary and cross sector partners –although not all will be directly involved in this project – that is led by the SMMI.
The project will investigate if responsive mooring systems can provide a feasible option to reduce anchor size for floating facilities. A mooring system that absorbs some of the peak dynamic loading would lead to smaller loads being transferred to the anchor, enabling smaller anchors that will be more cost effective to install. Development of more efficient mooring systems is particularly important for the transition to renewable energy since the lower energy yield per structure compared to oil and gas producing structures requires many hundred more structures to be moored to the seabed for the same total energy yield.
Key-skills: A First Class Degree in an engineering or physical sciences discipline or applied mathematics. Experimental and numerical analysis capabilities would be beneficial.
Example mooring system for floating renewable facilityThis project is funded by a Royal Academy of
Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies in Intelligent & Resilient Ocean Engineering. Supervisors supported by RAEng and The Alan Turing Institute.
If Interested in any of the above please email [email protected]
Originally Presented at the CMEE Showcase, 24th January 2020
