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Wiggins Promoted At

Palmetto Stevedoring

Robert C. Jacobi, executive vice president, Palmetto Shipping and Stevedoring Company Inc.,

Charleston, S.C., has announced the promotion of Leroy C. Wig- gins Jr. from stevedoring foreman to headquarters stevedore super- intendent. In his new position, Mr.

Wiggins will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and super- vising stevedoring operations in

Charleston S.C., and Savannah,

Ga.

Mr. Wiggins, a Charleston na- tive, served six years in the Army

Reserve and joined Palmetto in 1981, bringing with him 13 years of valuable experience in the stev- edoring industry.

The Marine Board Of The

National Research Council

Plans November Symposium

Plans for the international De- sign-Inspection-Redundancy Sym- posium on November 14—16, 1983, at the Fort Magruder Inn and

Conference Center in Williams- burg, Va., are nearing completion.

The symposium will be sponsored by the interagency Ship Structure

Committee, whose member agen- cies are: the U.S. Coast Guard, the

Naval Sea Systems Command, the

Military Sealift Command, the

Maritime Administration, the

American Bureau of Shipping, and the Minerals Management Service.

The purpose of this symposium is to examine the emerging tech- nologies of ultimate strength and failure mode analysis, as applica- ble to marine structural systems, and to delineate the most pressing problems. Twenty-three technical papers comprise the technical pro- gram that emphasizes the role of design, inspection, and redun- dancy in marine structural reliability: (1) The Design-Inspection-Re- dundancy Triangle; (2) Interrela- tion Between Design, Inspection and Redundancy in Marine Struc- tures; (3) Structural Design of

Mono Hull Ships; (4) Application of Subjective Reliability Analysis to the Evaluation of Inspection

Procedure on Ship Structures; (5)

Structural Redundancy and Dam- age Tolerance In Relation to Ulti- mate Ship-Hull Strength; (6)

Strategies for Assessing Design and Inspection Requirements for

Redundant Structures; (7) Fixed

Offshore Platforms Design Consid- erations; (8) Reserve and Residual

Strength of Pile-Founded Offshore

Platforms; (9) Offshore Platform

Inspection; (10) Design-Inspection-

Redundancy Investment vs. Risk for Pile Founded Offshore

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Also, (11) Design and Floating

Offshore Platforms; (12) Inspec- tion of Floating Offshore Plat- forms; (13) Redundancy Consider- ations in the Structural Design of

Floating Offshore Platforms; (14)

Synthesis—Floating Offshore

Platforms—Problems and Pre- scriptions, from Design to Inspec- tion; (15) Safety Evaluation of

Buildings and Bridges; (16) Design

Inspection and Redundancy of

Pressure Vessels; (17) Integration of Design, Fabrication, and Inspec- tion Procedures for Attaining and

Maintaining Safe Submersible

Pressure Hull Structure; (18) De- sign and Inspection Interrelation for Commercial Jet Transport

Structure; (19) Design, Fabrica- tion, Inspection and Redundancy

Aspects of the Landing Craft Air

Cushion Structure; (20) Research

Needs for Marine Structures; (21)

A Government Perspective on the

Safety of Marine Structures; (22)

The USAF Approach to Structural

Life Management; and (23) Civil

Engineering Applications of the

Theory of Structural Reliability.

For free information on the sym- posium, write Committee on Ma- rine Structures, Marine Board,

National Research Council, 2101

Constitution Avenue, N.W., Wash- ington, D.C. 20418.

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