Prof. Sean McNamara

Head of Department

phone:    353 492232
fax:        353 91 563991
e-mail:    sean.mcnamaranuigalway.ie

Research Interests

Design and analysis of land and marine pipelines for oil and gas transport. 
Finite element analysis of offshore floating deepwater hydrocarbon production systems.  
Assessment of spinal disc nucleus prosthetic device.

Selected Publications 

Mullarkey, T.P., McNamara, J.F. 2000.  A novel method for the representations of large scale torque and twist with bending of elastic rods.  In O’Donoghue, P.E. and Flavin, J.N. (eds.)  Symposium on Trends in the Application of Mathematics to Mechanics (STAMM 2000). The Data Science Library, Elsevier, pp. 139-146.

Mullarkey, T.P., McNamara, J.F. and Lang, D.W. (MCS International, Galway). 2000. Assessment of alternative approaches for the representation of torque and twist in pipeline and riser analysis. In Chung, J.S., Matsin, T. and Moshagen, H. (eds.),  Proceedings of the Tenth (2000) International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference, ISOPE, California, pp. 37-41.

Harte, A.M., McNamara, J.F., Roddy, I.D.  2000.  Application of optimisation methods to the design of high performance composite pipelines. In Denys Rudi (ed.),  Pipeline Technology, Vol. II, Elsevier Science, pp. 667-680

McNamara, J.F., Connoly, A. (MCS International, Galway) and Steen, J. (Ameron B.V., Holland). 2000.  High pressure composite pipeline and joints for gas distribution network.  In Denys, Rudi (ed.),  Pipeline Technology, Vol. II, Elsevier Science, pp. 681–694.

Harte, A.M., McNamara, J.F., and Roddy, I (MCS Intl., Galway). 1999. “Evaluation of optimisation techniques in the design of composite pipelines”.  In Hashmi, M.S.J. and Looney, L. (eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Mateirals and Processing Technologies, AMPT’99, Dublin City University, pp. 1281-1292.

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