BIO OF SUBRATA CHAKRABARTI

Subrata K. Chakrabarti is the president of Offshore Structure Analysis Inc., Plainfield, Ill. The company provides engineering and technical services to and software development for the offshore industries and US Navy.  In OSA, Inc., Dr. Chakrabarti helped drilling and engineering companies in their design and development of new generation offshore production platforms.  He was involved with Newport News Shipbuilding in the experimental research on new Navy ships.  He worked on an Office of Naval Research project developing a Mobile Offshore Base concept for the military operation.  He consulted in the design, decommissioning and operation of several wave basins including the world's largest wave basin at COPPE, Univ. of Rio de Janeiro, Offshore Model basin in California.  In 2003-4, he was involved in the concrete pier design and construction of the new Tacoma Narrows Bridge, WA.  He is currently working with Griffith University, Australia on a Planar Motion Mechanism design and construction.  Several design companies use design/analysis software Subrata has developed.

He was elected to the 2002 National Academy of Engineering, one of the highest professional distinctions in the U.S.  He has been honored for his major contributions to the field of hydrodynamics and fluid structure interaction in the design of harbor, coastal, and offshore structures.

Subrata was a gold medallist in 1963 at the Jadavpur University, Calcutta during his bachelor's degree in Mechanical engineering.  He achieved his masters in Mechanical Engineering in 1965 and a Ph.D. with honors in Engineering Mechanics from the University of Colorado in 1968.  He joined the research division in Chicago Bridge and Iron Co. in Plainfield, IL in 1968 where he worked as the director of the Marine Research Division in the last 15 years of his career there.  At CB&I, he was responsible for the operation of their wave tank, which was used in model testing of the offshore oil exploration and production platforms.  He was involved in the development of several offshore projects including Dubai storage tanks, Gulf of Mexico Submersible, Brazilian Mooring Towers, North Sea Production Platform, and Gulf of Mexico Tension Leg Platform. He had performed research/experiments for the U.S. Navy on such projects as their Submarine Development, Advanced Navy Seal Delivery System, Advanced Torpedo, and USS Midway Aircraft re-design effort. His group developed several specialized miniature dynamometers for the US Navy research facility, David Taylor Model Basin (NSWCCD) in Maryland.

Subrata has been instructing the offshore community in several parts of the world for the past 20 plus years with short courses on the subject of Dynamics of Offshore Structures.  The instructions have been accepted as a standard bi-annual course for the offshore design and oil companies in Houston.  Dr. Chakrabarti has been a frequent invitee as lecturer to many universities in the world.  Dr. Chakrabarti was a visiting faculty member at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India in 1997, and Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark in the summer of 1995.  He was a visiting NAVFAC professor at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland in the summer of 1986 and again in 1988.

Dr. Chakrabarti has been a fellow of American Society of Civil Engineers, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Wessex Institute of Great Britain and American Association for Advancement of Science. He is considered one of the pioneers to help initiate the Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering division within ASME in 1985.  He has been the technical program chair of the annual International OMAE conference several years including 2004.  Dr. Chakrabarti was instrumental in starting the Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, ASME in 1987 and served as the Technical editor of the journal for ten years.  He was a Publication Committee Member, WPCOE, ASCE in 1978-84.  He is currently the American Technical editor of the Applied Ocean Research, Elsevier.

Subrata has recently completed his fourth textbook on Theory and Practice of Hydrodynamics and Vibration, published by the World Scientific Publisher, Singapore in the summer of 2002.  He is the technical editor of the forthcoming (1200 page) Handbook of Offshore Engineering (Elsevier) scheduled to appear in print in Jan./Feb. 2005. He is also the sole author of three other books:

Hydrodynamics of Offshore Structures, CML Publication, Ltd., Great Britain, 1988, 440 pages.
Nonlinear Methods in Offshore Engineering, Elsevier Publishers, Germany, 1990, 550 pages.
Offshore Structure Modeling, World Scientific, Singapore, 1994, 470 pages

The first book is being used as a textbook in graduate studies in several U.S. and international universities in their ocean/offshore engineering and naval architecture dept.  Subrata has over 150 refereed publications in the world scientific journals and written chapters in eight books.  He has also edited over six books in the general area of fluid-structure interaction.