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Biography:
Douglas Faulkner (1929-2011) was John Elder Professor of Naval Architecture at the University from 1973 to 1995.
Born in Gibraltar, Faulkner worked as a dockyard apprentice and then went to the Royal Naval College at Greenwich, gaining the professional certificate of the Royal Corps of Naval Constructors in 1954. He went to sea and then to HM Dockyard at Devonport, before becoming Constructor at the Naval Construction Research Establishment in Dunfermline.
In 1963 he returned to Greenwich as Assistant Professor of Naval Architecture, and he was Structural Adviser to the Ship Department at Bath from 1966 to 1968 and then Constructor Commander attached to the British Embassy in Washington DC from 1969 to 1970. He returned to the Ship Department at Bath and was structural adviser to the Merrison Box Girder Bridge Committee from 1971 until his appointment to the John Elder Chair.
Faulkner was the British representative on the Standing Committee of the International Ship Structures Congress from 1973 to 1985 and became an authority on submarine structural design problems. He has been a consulting structural engineer and naval architect, specialising in ship casualty investigations, since 1995.
The University awarded him an Honorary BSc in 1973. Douglas Faulkner died on the 13th February 2011, aged 81.
Selected Publications:
Faulkner, D., 1975. A Review of Effective Plating for Use in the Analysis of Stiffened Plating in Bending and Compression. Journal of Ship Research, 19: 1-17.
Faulkner, D(1976). “Buckling Research Needs for Efficient and Safe Design of Offshore Steel Structures”, University of Glasgow Report NAOE-76-03, 5 November 1976.
Faulkner, D(1977). “Some Thoughts on the Nature of Hazards Affecting Structures in Deeper Waters”, Journal SUT, Vol. 3.
Faulkner, D., "Effects of Residual Stresses on the Ductile Strength of Plane Welded Grillages and of Ring-Stiffened Cylinders," Journal of Strain Analysis and Engineering Design, Vol. 12, April 1977, pp. 130-139
Faulkner, D, Chen, Y N and De Oliveira, J G (1983). “Limit State Design Criteria for Stiffened Cylinders of Offshore Structures”, American Society of Mechanical Engineers of the National Congress of Pressure Vessels and Piping Technology, Portland, Oregon.
Frieze PA, Das PK, Faulkner D. Partial safety factors for stringer stiffened cylinders under extreme compressive loads, PRADS 83, The 2nd International Symposium on Practical Design in Ship Building, Tokyo and Seoul, 1983: 475–482.
Faulkner, D., The Collapse Strength and Design of Submarines, Proceedings of the Symposium on Naval Submarines, May 17, London, RINA, 1983
Faulkner, D., "Structural Developments in Underwater Operations", Progress in Ship Buildings, pp. 69-83, 1988.
Faulkner D, Guedes Soares C, Warwick DM. Modelling requirements for structural design and
assessment. Integrity of Offshore Structures-3, IOS-87, Elsevier Applied Science, 1988.
D. Faulkner, M.J Cowling and A. Incecik (Editors) Integrity of Offshore Structures, Vol.. 4, CRC Press, 1991, 640 pages
D. Faulkner and P. K. Das, “Application of reliability theory to structural design and assessment of submarines and other externally pressurized cylindrical structures”, in Integrity of offshore structures-4, edited by D. Faulkner, M. J. Cowling, and A. Incecik, 1991, Elsevier, 1994, Spon Press, 11 New Fetter Lane, London, EC4P 4EE
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