Page 59: of Maritime Reporter Magazine (April 1981)

OTC '81

Technical Program

Wednesday Morning • Diving, Salvage, and

Repair Operations II (continued from page 59) 4085 Record Trinix Dive to 2,132 ft. With- out Incapacitating High Pressure

Nervous Syndrome 4086 Sub-Ergometer — An Equipment for

Estimating the Work Load on Divers in Open Waters 4087 The Latest Diving Support Vessel,

Model Tests and Dynamic Positioning for North of 62nd Parallel 4088 A New Generation of Diving Support

Vessels 4089 Snap Loads and Bending Fatigue in

Diving Bell Handling Systems • Ocean Mining I

OTC 4090 Infrastructure Requirements for a

Manganese Nodule Processing Indus- try on the Island of Hawaii 4091 Automatic Position Control of a 300,000 Tons Ship During

Deep Ocean Mining 4092 Dynamic Vertical Stretching Oscilla- tion of Deep Ocean Mining Pipe 4093 Computer Simulation of Deep Sea

Mining Manoeuvres 4094 An Advanced Design Deep Sea Mining

System

Wednesday Afternoon 2:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. • Geophysical Interpretation

OTC 4095 3D Reflection Synthetic Seismograms 4096 2D Migration Effects of 3D Data 4097 Drillability Profiles Derived from 3D

Seismic Surveys 4098 Seismic Stratigraphic Characteristics of Upper Louisiana Continental Slope —An Area East of Green Canyon 4099 The Determination of Grain Charac- teristics, Contacts and Packing by

Shear Velocity 4100 A Study on Estimating the Relief of

Magnetic Basement • Offshore Pipelines I

OTC 4101 A New Welding Concept for Pipelines:

Electron Beam Welding 4102 Electron Beam Weldability for Deep

Sea Pipelines 4103 Flash Butt Welding for Large Diameter

Pipes 4104 Probabilistic Fatigue Analysis of Off- shore Pipelines During the Laying

Operation 4105 Predictive Simulations Matched by

As-Laid Parameters of Sicily Channel

Sealine Project • Tubular Members and Joints

OTC 4106 Double-Skin Construction of Large

Pressure Vessels for Subsea Systems 4107 External Pressure Tests of Ring Stif- fened Fabricated Steel Cylinders 4108 Experimental Study on the Effect of

Axial Tension Load on the Collapse

Strength of Oil Well Casing 4109 BP Magnus Platform Internally Stif- fened Bracing Node Studies 4110 Novel Underwater Strengthening Sys- tem for Tubular Joints • Design and Analysis of

Arctic Structures

OTC 4111 Resistance of Concrete Walls in High

Concentrated Ice Loads 4112 Slope Protection for Artificial Explora- tion Islands Off Prudhoe Bay 4113 A Steel Production Structure for the

Alaskan Beaufort Sea 4114 Erosion Prediction for Exploration and

Production Structure in the Arctic 4115 Ice Force Prediction Using a Limited

Driving Force Approach • Marine Geology and

Geotechnical Engineering

OTC 4116 Blowout Craters on the Continental

Shelf of the Gulf of Mexico

April 1, 1981 4117 Geologic Hazards and Constraints;

Federal OCS Oil and Gas Lease Sale 53, Central and Northern California 4118 Environmental Geology of Shelikof

Strait; OSC Sale Area 60, Alaska 4119 Geologic Mapping for Offshore Engi- neering, Mississippi Delta 4120 A Pressurized Core Barrel for Sam- pling Gas-Charged Marine Sediments 4121 Geotechnical Analysis of a Submarine

Slump, Eureka, California • Wind and Wave Forces

OTC 4122 Wind Tunnel Tests of Inclined Rough

Circular Cylinders 4123 Mobile Offshore Platform Wind Loads 4124 Wind Overturning Effects Obtained from Wind Tunnel Tests with Various

Semisubmersible Models 4125 Wind Tunnel Model Testing Techniques for Offshore Gas/Oil Production

Platforms 4126 The Development and Proposed Use of a Wave Force Measurement System 4127 Analysis of the Uncertainties in the

Sea Loading of Offshore Steel

Structures • Ocean Mining II

OTC 4128 Offshore Processing of Metalliferous

Sediments in the Red Sea 4129 Comparison Between Galapagos and

Gorda Spreading Centers 4130 An Electric Rock Core Drill for Deep

Ocean Use 4131 Hard Mineral Resources Around the

U.S. Continental Margin 4132 Analysis of Physical and Mechanical

Properties of Deepsea Sediments from

Potential Manganese Nodule Mining

Areas in The North Central Pacific 4133 Acoustic Sounding for Manganese

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