International Ship Structure Symposium '84

Arlington, Va. October 15-16 The International Ship Structure Symposium '84 (SSS 84) will be held October 15-16 at the Sheraton National Hotel in Arlington, Va.

Sponsored jointly by the interagency Ship Structure Committee and The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, this is the fourth in a series of symposia sponsored by these two organizations. The first three were the highly successful Ship Structure Symposium in 1975, the Ship Vibration Symposium in 1978, and the Extreme Loads Response Symposium in 1981.

The Ship Structure Committee is the standing U.S. interagency committee charged with conducting a research program to improve the design, materials, and construction of ships and marine structures. The member agencies are the 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 SSS 84 is to bring together representatives of the maritime community, including shipowners, operators, builders, designers, researchers, government, and classification societies to discuss recent developments in ship structural design. The program will cover a range of topics including load definition, reliability, ice-capable tankers, ultimate strength, CAD/CAM tools, fracture mechanics, corrosion fatigue, and productivity. In recent years there has been considerable state-of-the-art improvement in these areas, and as always, there remains much to be accomplished.

It is timely that the available technology be exposed and discussed in an open forum.

The preregistration fee is $170 per person; registration at the symposium will be $190. This covers admittance to all technical sessions as well as a reception on Sunday evening, October 14, coffee during the technical sessions, luncheons on Monday and Tuesday, and the reception/ banquet on Monday evening.

The fee also covers a bound copy of the symposium papers and a second bound volume of the discussions after the symposium.

The main speaker at the banquet will be RADM William M. (Mike) Benkert, USCG (Ret.), who has had and continues to have a colorful career in various positions within the maritime community. SSS 84 is being dedicated to Professor Emeritus J. Harvey Evans, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who has spent many years teaching, writing on, and researching the structure of ships. He will speak at Monday's luncheon.

TECHNICAL PROGRAM Monday, October 15 Welcome by John S. Spencer, SSS 84 general chairman, chief, Structures and Loadline Section, U.S. Coast Guard; RADM Clyde T.

Lusk Jr., USCG (Ret.), chairman, Ship Structure Committee; and C.

L a r r y F r e n c h , p r e s i d e n t, SNAME, chairman, National Steel and Shipbuilding Company.

Session I Moderator: S.G. Stiansen, American Bureau of Shipping.

"A Review of Ship Structure Committee Activities 1975-84," by LCDR D.B. Anderson, USCG; J.B. O' Brien, Department of the Navy; and R.W. Rumke, National Academy of Sciences.

"A Time-Domain Simulation Method for Ship Motion and Load Prediction," by Paul R. Van Mater, Julio G. Giannotti, and James C. Oliver III, Gianotti and Associates, Inc.

Session II Moderator: P.M. Palermo, Department of the Navy.

"An Approximate Method for Estimating the Collapse of a Ship's Hull in Preliminary Design," by Dr. J.C.

Adamchak, David Taylor Naval Ship Research and Development Center.

"Models for the Design of Damage- Tolerant Structural Systems," by J.

Shupe, Prof. F. Mistree, and Prof. R.H. Allen, University of Houston.

Session III Moderator: J.B. Gregory, Minerals Management Service.

"Reliability of Structural Systems," by Prof. A.H. Ang, University of Illinois, and Prof. R.M. Bennett, University of Tennessee.

"Hull Girder Reliability," by Dr. G.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Sunday, October 14 6:00-8:00 pm—Early Bird Registration and Reception Monday, October 15 8:00 am-6:00 pm—Registration 8:30 am—Welcome and Introduction 8:45 am—Session I 10:45 am—Session II 12:15 pm—Luncheon 1:45 pm—Session III 3:45 pm—Session IV 5:30 pm—Cash Bar 7:00 pm—Banquet Tuesday, October 16 8:00 am-3:00 pm—Registration 8:00 am—Session V 10:45 am—Session VI 12:15—Luncheon 1:30 pm—Session VII 3:45 pm—Adjournment All sessions except luncheons will be held in the South Ballroom.

Ferro and D. Cervetto, Registro Italiano Navale.

S e s s i o n IV Moderator: CAPT A.E. Henn, USCG.

"Fracture Mechanics Based Assessment of Fatigue Reliability in Ship Structures," by Dr. A. Thayamballi, Dr. Y.K. Chen, and Dr. D.

Liu, American Bureau of Shipping.

"Long-Term Corrosion Fatigue of Welded Marine Steels," by Dr. O.H.

Burnside and Dr. S.J. Hudak Jr., Southwest Research Institute, Tuesday, October 16 Session V Moderator: W.M. Hannan, American Bureau of Shipping.

"Structural Design Criteria for Ice- Capable Tankers," by S. Karve and C. Manoudakis, Brian Watt Associates, Inc.

"Environmental Loading for Design of Oceanic Structures," by Dr. J.S.

Mercier, Conoco, Inc.

"Environmental Data for Design of Marine Vehicles," by W.T. Lee and Mrs. S. Bales, David Taylor Naval Ship Research and Development Center.

Session VI Moderator: T.W. Pross, Maritime Administration.

"National Research Council Study of Productivity Improvement in U.S. Naval Shipbuilding," by C.A.

Bookman, National Research Council.

"Integrating CAD-CAM Tools in the Design and Construction of Ships and Offshore Structures," by: J.F. Bailliot, Chantiers du Nord et de la Mediterrannee; D. Fnifter, Institut de Recherches de la Construction Navale; and Prof. H.A.

Kamel, University of Arizona Session VII Moderator: T.W. Allen, Department of the Navy.

"Rupture Analysis of Ship Plating due to Hydrodynamic Wave Impact," by Prof. T. Wierzbicki, Prof. C. Chryssostomidis, and C.

Wiernicki, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

"Simplified Buckling Strength Criteria for Plates Subjected to Biaxial Compression and Lateral Pressure," by E. Steen and Dr. S. Valsgard, A/S Veritec, Oslo.

"Comparison of Experimental and Predicted Collapse Pressures for Stiffened Cylindrical Shells," by Dr.

M. Moussouros, Naval Surface Weapons Center.

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