| Steve J
Banfield |
Managing Director, TTI, Ltd.
- H.N.C. Mechanical Engineering & Chemistry
- Managing Director, TTI Ltd.
- Formerly Large Rope Development Leader, Marlow Ropes Ltd.
- Fibre rope development and testing.
Rope and cable splicing. Rope jacketing systems. Specialist rope yarn
testing.
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| Chris Berryman |
Associate Consultant, TTI, Ltd.
- B. Sc. (Hons) Physics
- Associate Consultant, TTI Ltd.
- Formerly Design Manager, Marlow Ropes Ltd.
- Synthetic fibre rope design, development and testing.
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| Kevin Black |
Director -
M.Sc. Advanced Manufacturing Systems, H.N.C. Mechanical & Production Engineering.
- Director, PROCADD Ltd. – Engineering Design Consultants
- Principal Engineer – Conductor Protection Net, Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR), Azeri Project – Caspian Sea
- Formerly Technical Manager, HMD Sealless Pumps Ltd – subsidiary of United Technology Corporation (UTC)
- Design, Project Management, Manufacturing, Testing & Installation
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| Dr. Christopher J. Burgoyne |
Consultants In Flexible Tension Member Systems |
| Martin Delaney
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Technical Director, Marine and Moorings
- B.Tech. Civil and Structural Engineering
- Technical Director (Marine and Moorings), TTI Ltd.
- Formerly of Noble Denton and Global Maritime
- Mooring system design and analysis, hydrodynamics, structures.
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| John F Flory |
Vice President, TTI, Inc
- BSc Mechanical Engineering, Msc Engineering
Mechanics, P.E.
- Vice President, TTI Inc.
- Formerly Engineering Associate, Exxon Research.
- Mooring system analysis; synthetic fibre rope, chain, flexible cargo
hoses.
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| John W S Hearle |
retired, Senior Consultant
- MA ScD PhD Physics, FInstP FTI (Hon) CText
- Director, Senior Consultant, former Chairman, TTI Ltd.
- Professor Emeritus, Textile Technology. UMIST. UK
- Mechanics of fibres and yarns; rope technology; fatigue studies; composite
materials.
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| Roger E Hobbs |
Director
- PhD, DSc (eng), FIStructE, FICE, C.Eng
- Former Chairman, TTI Ltd.
- Professor, Structural Engineering, Imperial College, London.
- Wire rope analysis and testing; performance predictions; cable structures;
fatigue testing.
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| Chris M Leech |
Director
- PhD DSc Mechanical Engineering, FASME
- Director, TTI Ltd.
- Reader in Mechanical Engineering, UMIST, UK
- Mathematical modelling of tension member systems, including rope and
cable structures. Dynamic response of ballistic fabrics and composites.
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| Henry A McKenna |
President, TTI, Inc.
- BSc Mechanical Engineering, P.E.
- President, TTI Inc.
- Formerly Vice President, Samson Ocean Systems.
- Synthetic fibre ropes and fittings; mooring and net system design;
winches; fenders, buoys.
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| Jeff Nichols |
Laboratory Manager and Associate Consultant
- Optical Scanning Apparatus for Ropes[ OSCAR], acting as Co-ordinator for this EC-funded CRAFT Project
- Long-Term Durability
- Review of retirement criteria for hawsers
- Forensic investigations of rope failures and associated marine accidents
- Responsibility for testing at the TTI laboratory
- Small-scale testing co-ordinator and full-scale test inspector for MMS JIP ‘Damage to Poyester Ropes’
- Examination and testing of ropes in CBOS ‘DISH’ JIP
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| Nick O'Hear |
Chairman, TTI, Ltd.
- BSc Electrical Engineering
- Technical Director (Ropes and Cables), TTI Ltd.
- Formerly Technical Director, JDR Cable Systems
- Fiber ropes, fiber and wire reinforced electrical cables and umbilicals.
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| Alan T Ractliffe
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Director
- MA PhD Civil Engineering, MICE FRINA
- Director, TTI Ltd.
- Formerly Senior Lecturer in Marine Technology, Newcastle University
- Naval architecture, structural analysis, ship motions, modelling of
marine systems, cable dynamics.
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| Dr. Isabel Ridge |
Associate Consultant
- PhD, MIMechE, FEANI (Eur Ing), MInstNDT, FRSA
- Formerly Reading Rope Research and Casar Drahtseilwerk Saar
- Wire rope analysis and testing; performance predictions; fatigue testing. forensic analysis, expert witness
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