Dr Daowu Zhou
Subsea7
engineering manager and eca team lead
Dr Daowu Zhou
Dr Daowu Zhou received both a Bachelor and Master of Engineering degree in aeronautics from Northwestern Polytechnical University from China. Daowu obtained his PhD from University of Cambridge on solid mechanics in 2005. He subsequently worked at Imperial College London as a post-doctoral research associate and characterised composite sandwich material joint failure under explosive loading.
In 2007, Daowu joined TWI Ltd at Cambridge and carried out industry research on structural integrity. His research topics included: welding residual stress modelling and measurement, welding induced distortion modelling, TWI JIP on strain-based pipeline ECA, development of an algorithm and subroutine for calculating J-integral under dynamic loading with inertia effect, and FE-based fatigue assessment.
Daowu’s research on constraint-based fracture mechanics was implemented in the R6 code in nuclear industry and forms the foundation for subsequent constraint-based ECA procedure in BS7910 2019. He also carried out explorative research on SENT testing which paved the way for TWI’s JIP on industry standardisation of SENT testing and subsequent BS8571.
Daowu joined DNV in 2010 and principally researched X80 offshore pipeline girth weld integrity under large deformation and DNV’s JIP on treatment of residual stress in ECA of pipeline girth weld under high plastic deformation. He moved to Subsea7 a year after and has been working in Subsea7 for 11 years.
