James Hastie
Senior Mechanical Engineer
James is a mechanical engineer with experience spanning subsea equipment, offshore drilling, composite materials and additive manufacturing. He has designed downhole tools, pipeline isolation equipment and subsea cable products, as well as carrying out detailed mechanical and thermal analysis for deepwater applications.
His academic and research background gives him a particularly strong grounding in mechanics, materials and finite element analysis. James enjoys getting to the heart of a complex engineering challenge and turning rigorous analysis into clear, useful design decisions. He also brings several years of teaching and conference experience, making technical subjects easier to understand and act on
Project Experience
Design and full-scale testing of downhole plasma drilling tool
Led the walk to work standardisation project
FE analysis of floating turbine structure
FE analysis of tidal turbine PTO components
Combined mechanical and thermal analysis of carbon fibre-reinforced pipes for deep ocean hybrid riser applications
Strength and buckling modelling of composite and hybrid automotive driveshafts and fluid pipes
Development of pipeline insulation concept for rural locations