Newcastle University

Introduction

MRINA CEng

Roles and Responsibilities

Senior Lecturer in Naval Architecture
Stage 1, 2, 3 and 4 Undergraduate Year Tutor
Chairman Staff Student Liason Committee
Member School Executive Board
Member School Industrial Advisory Board
Member of Board of Studies
Memer Teaching and Learning Committee
School Careers Fair Organisor
Faculty Prizes Committee

Qualifications

Ph.D Newcastle 2004 'The Preliminary Design of Catamarans for Seakeeping and Resistance'
B.Eng Naval Architecture and Shipbuilding
(First class honours) Newcastle 1991
HND Naval Architecture and Shipbuidling Technology
(First in final year) Sunderland 1989

Previous Positions

Engineering Design Centre Newcastle University
Ship Design and Production Vosper Thornycroft (UK) Ltd

Memberships

Member Royal Institution of Naval Architects

Honours and Awards

Received with fellow authors 2004 Alan Glanville Award from the IOM^3

Informal Interests

Sailing and maintaining a wooden 1961 Buchanan King Cole Class sloop
Member Royal Northumberland Yacht Club, Blyth, Northumberland

Research Interests

Ship Design
Student Friendly Ship Design Software
Cause and effect understanding between hull form parameters and performance in calm water and waves.
Optimisation of monohulls and catamarans for Seakeeping and Resistance using Genetic Algorithms.
Use of composite materials for weight saving structure on steel warships.
Design and optimisation of composite to steel joints.
Fire resistance prediction of composite structures.
Furnace fire testing of composite materials.
Strength assessment of composites at elevated temperature and after fire.
Mechanical testing of composite to steel joints at room and elevated temperature.

Current Work

Member Centre Composites Materials Engineering
Sub-task leader FP6 Network of Excellence MARSTRUCT
EcoBoat Project funded by Norfolk and Suffolk Boatbuilders Association
International Workshop on Student Friendly Ship Design Software
Co-operation with AVEVA on use of Tribon Initial Design for teaching
EUCLID RTP3.21 Survivability, Durability and Performance of Naval Composite Structures (Principal Investigator) COMPLETED 2003
INTERMODESHIP 5th Framework project
FIRECOMP EPSRC project
Ph.D studentship under FIRECOMP on FRP pultrusions in fire
Ph.D studentship funded by Propondis Foundation on FRP sandwich in fire
Other integarated and part-time PhD students

Future Research

EPSRC proposals submitted on large scale thermoplastic composite structures and fire reaction measurements using cone calorimeter.

Research Roles

Principle investigator, investigator and sub-task leader

Postgraduate Supervision

4 Ph.D students
Assorted M.Sc and M.Res projects regarding ship design and composite structures each year.

Esteem Indicators

Member RINA Professional Affairs Committee
Regular referee for journal and conference papers
Phd and MPhil examiner
Session Chairman at International RINA conference
Invited to give lecture at Kyushu University during visit to Japan for OC’98.

Projects

• KTP - DISPRO - Knowledge Transfer Partnership – Design for Structural Protection
  Project Leader(s): Dr Peter Wright
  Keywords: Water ballast tanks; design for coatings
• MARSTRUCT - Network of Excellence on Marine Structures
  Project Leader(s): Professor Bob Dow & Dr Jonathan Downes
  Keywords: Marine structures; risk based design; risk analysis; probabilistic methods; naval architecture; FEA analysis; lightweight design; damaged ships

Undergraduate Teaching

Module leader MAR103 Naval Architecture I
Module leader MAR206 Marine Structures IA
MAR208 Naval Architecture II
Module leader MAR212 Engineering Applications
Module leader MAR331 Naval Architecture III
Module leader MAR302 Marine Design
MAR301/302/303/304 Common Design Lectures
Module leader MAR398 Project and Report
MAR499 Group Design Project

Postgraduate Teaching

Module leader MAR891 Ship Design (International M.Sc)

• Gibson AG, Wright PNH, Wu YS, Mouritz AP, Mathys Z, Gardiner CP. Modelling residual mechanical properties of polymer composites after fire. In: Plastics, Rubber and Composites: 9th International Conference on Fibre Reinforced Composites. 2003, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Maney Publishing.
• Ijaz M, Robinson M, Wright PNH, Gibson AG. Vacuum consolidation of commingled thermoplastic matrix composites. Journal of Composite Materials 2007, 41(2), 243-262.
• Landamore MJ, Birmingham RW, Downie MJ, Wright PNH. Sustainable technologies for inland leisure craft. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part M: Journal of Engineering for the Maritime Environment 2007, 221(3), 97-114.
• Landamore MJ, Wright PNH, Birmingham RW, Downie MJ. Investigation of sustainable technologies in the leisure craft sector. Transactions of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects Part B: International Journal of Small Craft Technology 2006, 148(B2), 41-54.
• Papanikolaou AD, Kaklis PD, Andersen P, Birmingham RW, Wright PNH. IMDC 2006 State of the Art Report - Marine Design Education. In: 9th International Marine Desing Conference.2006,Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
• Flowerday ACJ, Wright PNH, Ledger RO, Gibson AG. Investigation into the use of geopolymers for fire resistant marine composites. In: RINA, Royal Institution of Naval Architects International Conference - Advanced Marine Materials and Coatings. 2006, London, UK: Royal Institution of Naval Architects.
• Ijaz M, Wright PNH, Robinson M, Gibson AG. Investigation of the vacuum consolidation for commingled thermoplastic matrix composites for small craft applications. Royal Institution of Naval Architects. Transactions. Part B. International Journal of Small Craft Technology 2006,148 2 25-40.
• Wright PNH, Birmingham RW. Towards Student Friendly Ship Design Software. In: 9th International Marine Design Conference.2006,Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
• Wright PNH, White G, Hutchinson K. Use of TRIBON Initial Design for Teaching Ship Design. In: 9th Internationl Marine Design Conference.2006,Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
• Ijaz M, Wright PNH, Robinson M, Gibson AG. Vacuum consolidation of commingled thermoplastic matrix composites for marine applications. In: Advanced Marine Materials and Coatings: RINA, Royal Institution of Naval Architects International Conference. 2006, London, UK: Royal Institution of Naval Architects.
• Gutierrez J, Parneix P, Bollero A, Hoyning B, MacGeorge D, Gibson AG, Wright PNH. Fire Performance of Naval Composite Structures. In: 9th International Conference and Exhibition on Fire and Materials.2005,San Francisco, California, USA
• Koh L, Atlar M, Wright PNH, Mesbahi E, Cooper D. An Inverse Design Procedure for Hydrodynamic Optimisation of High Speed Hull Form using Commercial Software. In: RINA International Exhibition and Conference on High Speed Craft: Technical and Operation. 2004, London, UK.
• Wright PNH, Gibson AG, Wu Y. Fire Safe Composite to Metal Joints for Warships. In: Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering Conference (SAMPE). 2004, Long Beach, California, USA.
• Gibson AG, Wright PNH, Wu Y-S. Small-scale, low cost technique for the fire resistance of composites. In: Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering Conference (SAMPE). 2004, Long Beach, California, USA: Society for the Advancement of Materials and Process Engineering.
• Wright PNH, Wu Y-S, Gibson AG. Factors affecting mechancial strength of steel to composite connections for warship structures. In: 9th International Conference on Fibre Reinforced Composites (FRC ). 2002, Newcastle upon Tyne: CCME University of Newcastle.
• Gibson AG, Wright PNH, Wu Y, Mouritz AP, Mathys Z, Gardiner CP. Modelling the Residual Integrity of Polymer Composites after Fire. In: 9th International Conference on Fibre Reinforced Composites (FRC). 2002, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
• Wright PNH, Wu Y, Gibson AG. Fibre Reinforced Composite-Steel Connections for Transverse Ship Bulkheads. Plastics, Rubber and Composites: Processing and Applications 2000, 29(10), 549-557.
• Hearn, G. E., and Wright, P. N. H. Simplified versus Complex Analysis of Seakeeping and Wavemaking Resistance (in large post-panamax container ship design). CFD’99, The International CFD Conference, 5-7 June 1999, Ulsteinvik, Norway 1999.
• Hearn, G. E., Wright, P. N. H., and Welsh, M. “Design for Optimal Operation of Large Container Ships”. RINA International Conference on Design and Operation of Container Ships, 24-25 March 1999. (Session Chairman). 1999.
• Stott PW, Wright PNH. Opportunities for improved efficiency and carbon reduction in dry bulk shipping stemming from the relaxation of the Panamax beam constraint. Transactions A: International Journal of Maritime Engineering 2012. In Press.
• Stott P, Wright P. The Panama Canal expansion: business as usual or game changer for ship design?. Port Technology International 2012, (53), 27-28.
• Broderick DR, Wright PNH, Kattan MR. Design of Ships Water Ballast Tanks to Improve the Performance of the Coatings Applied to Them. In: Society for Protective Coatings (SSPC) Annual Conference. 2011, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
• Broderick DR, Wright PNH, Kattan MR. The Design Challenges Associated with Coating Ships. In: National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE) Annual Corrosion Conference. 2011, Houston, Texas, USA.
• Stott P, Wright PNH, Bakalees A. Typical ship principal dimensions. 2011. Newcastle: Newcastle University School of Marine Science and Technology.
• Broderick D, Kattan R, Wright P. Coating of ships: The design challenge. In: International Conference on Marine and Offshore Coatings. 2010, London, UK: RINA.
• Reid A, Downie MJ, Wright PNH. Performance Modelling and Analysis of Olympic Class Sailing Boats. In: RINA International Conference on Innovation in High Performance Sailing Yachts (INNOV’SAIL). 2010, Lorient, France.
• Reid A, Downie M, Wright P. Performance modelling and analysis of Olympic class sailing boats and crews using neural networks. In: International Conference on Innovation in High Performance Sailing Yachts. 2010, Brittany, France: RINA.
• Kattan R, Broderick DR, Wright PNH. The Coating of Ships: The Challenge. In: RINA International Conference on Marine & Offshore Coatings. 2010, London, UK: RINA.
• Kattan R, Broderick DR, Wright PNH. The Design Challenges Associated with Coating Ships. In: 11th International Symposium on Practical Design of Ships & Other Floating Structures (PRADS). 2010, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• Wright PNH, Broderick DR. Application of Advanced Double Hull Technology to Short Sea Shipping Vessels. In: 10th International Marine Design Conference (IMDC). 2009, Trondheim, Norway: Academic Press.
• Landamore M, Cabezas-Basurko O, Wright P, Birmingham R, Reichel M, Kremer E. Create3S: An outline of the concept and overview of possible solution routes for the hull form. Journal of Maritime Research 2009, 6(1), 3-14.
• Wright PNH, Broderick D, Landamore M, Hopman JJ. Selection of a Design Concept for the Create3S Project. In: RINA International Conference on Design & Operation of Container Ships. 2008, London, UK: RINA.
• Flowerday ACJ, Wright PNH, Ledger RO, Gibson AG. Investigation into the use of geopolymers for fire resistant marine composites. In: International Conference on Advanced Marine Materials and Coatings. 2006, London, UK: Royal Institution of Naval Architects.
• Ijaz M, Wright PNH, Robinson M, Gibson AG. Vacuum consolidation of commingled thermoplastic matrix composites for marine applications. In: International Conference on Advanced Marine Materials and Coatings. 2006, London, UK: Royal Institution of Naval Architects.
• Gibson AG, Wright PNH, Wu Y-S, Mouritz AP, Mathys Z, Gardiner CP. Fire integrity of polymer composites using the two layer model. In: International SAMPE Technical Conference. 2004, Long Beach, California, USA: Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering.
• Wright PNH, Gibson AG, Wu Y-S. Fire-safe composite to steel connections for warship structures. In: 49th International SAMPE Symposium and Exhibition: Materials and Processing Technology. 2004, Long Beach, California, USA: Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering.
• Gibson AG, Wright PNH, Wu Y-S, Evans JT. Laminate theory analysis of composites under load in fire. In: 49th International SAMPE Symposium and Exhibition: Materials and Processing Technology. 2004, Long Beach, California, USA: Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering.
• Gibson AG, Wright PNH, Wu Y-S. Mechanical properties of polymer composites during fire. In: 4th MERL International Conference on Oilfield Engineering with Polymers. 2003, London, UK: MERL/RAPRA.
• Gibson AG, Wright PNH, Wu Y-S. The integrity of polymer composites during and after fire. In: Composites in Fire 3. 2003, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: CompositeLink.
• Gibson AG, Hicks C, Wright PNH, Fahrer A. Development of Glass Fibre Reinforced Polyethylene Pipes for Pressure Applications. Plastics, Rubber and Composites 2000, 29(10), 509-519.
• Wright PNH, Wu Y, Gibson AG. Fibre reinforced composite-steel connections for transverse ship bulkheads. Plastics, Rubber & Composites Processing and Applications 2000, 29(10), 549-557.
• Wright PNH, Wu Y, Gibson AG. Fibre reinforced composite-steel connections for transverse ship bulkheads. Plastics, Rubber and Composites 2000, 29(10), 549-557.
• Clare AS, Knight J, Taylor GW, Wright P. Eicosanoid biosynthesis in an advanced deuterostomate invertebrate, the sea squirt (Ciona intestinalis). Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids 1999, 1436(3), 467-478.