Penulis: Yong Bai

Qiang Bai, Ph D, has more than 20 years of experience in subsea and offshore engineering. He has taught at Kyushu University in Japan, UCLA in the USA, and he has worked at OPE, JP Kenny, and Technip. He is also the coauthor of three influential books on pipelines, which are standard in the industry. Yong Bai, Ph D, is the president of Offshore Pipelines & Risers Inc. in Houston, and is a professor and the director of the Offshore Engineering Research Center at Zhejiang University. He has previously taught at Stavanger University in Norway where he was a professor of offshore structures and has also worked with ABS as manager of the Offshore Technology Department as the JIP project manager and has also worked for Shell International E & P, JP Kenny, and MCS, where he was vice president of engineering. He is the co-author of two books on pipelines and over 100 papers on the design and installation of subsea pipelines and risers. Weidong Ruan, Ph D, is the author of numerous papers in the field of flexible pipelines and has co-authored chapters of books on pipelines and risers.