Yong Bai, PhD, 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, DNV 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.

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This second volume in the Advances in Pipes and Pipelines series focuses on flexible pipelines, risers, and umbilicals, offering the engineer the most up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of pipeline engineering available today. The technology, processes, materials, and theories surrounding pipeline construction, application, and troubleshooting are constantly changing, and this new series, "Advances in Pipes and Pipelines", has been created to meet the needs of engineers and scientists to keep them up to date and informed of all of these advances. This second volume in the series focuses on flexible pipelines, risers, and umbilicals, offering the engineer the most thorough coverage of the state-of-the-art available. The author of this work has written numerous books and papers on these subjects and is one of the most influential authors on flexible pipes in the world, contributing much of the literature on this subject to the industry. This new volume is a presentation of some of the most cutting-edge technological advances in technical publishing. The first volume in this series, published by Wiley-Scrivener, is Flexible Pipes, available at www.wiley.com. Laying the foundation for the series, it is a groundbreaking work, written by some of the world's foremost authorities on pipes and pipelines. Continuing in this series, the editor has compiled the second volume, equally as groundbreaking, expanding the scope to pipelines, risers, and umbilicals. This is the most comprehensive and in-depth series on pipelines, covering not just the various materials and their aspects that make them different, but every process that goes into their installation, operation, and design. This is the future of pipelines, and it is an important breakthrough. A must-have for the veteran engineer and student alike, this volume is an important new advancement in the energy industry, a strong link in the chain of the world's energy production. Deepwater Flexible Risers and Pipelines:

Following up on the first volume in the series, introduces a new approach to the design, construction, and installation of flexible pipes, adding risers and umbilicals
Presents both the theory and practical applications of flexible pipes with a view toward its use in pipelines and other industrial settings
Describes the new materials, technologies, and practical applications of flexible pipelines, risers, and umbilicals, one of the hottest topics in the oil and gas industry
Introduces engineering students to a profound theory for stronger and more efficient designs in pipelines and provides the veteran engineer a valuable reference