Richard Mercier

Professor Richard Mercier holds a position in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Texas A&M University and serves as the Shell Director at the Offshore Technology Research Center. His office is located at DLEB 310C, and he can be contacted via phone at 979-845-6000 or email at rsmercier@tamu.edu.

• Educational Background: Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1985)

Research Interests span experimental and numerical hydrodynamics, global design and analysis of offshore structures, dynamics of deepwater mooring systems, and scale model testing of floating structures. His work focuses on integrating physical experiments with computational modeling to address complex challenges in offshore engineering systems.