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his year, SNAME's Annual Meeting and International

Maritime Exposition will be held in Washington, D.C., at the

Washington Hilton and Towers, from October 4-7. The theme of the '95 event, as announced by the Society of Naval

Architects and Marine Engineers, will be: "Technologies and Strategies for World Class Competitiveness in Ship Design,

Shipbuilding and Ship Operations." The technical portion of the program will combine panel discussions and presentations of papers on the subject theme. The conference portion of the exhibition will showcase the most innovative and up-to-date maritime technology, equipment and services, and has attract- ed hundreds of international maritime companies. Among the exhibitors are: marine equipment manufacturers, suppliers and distributors; shipyards; naval design and marine engineer- ing firms; marine consultancies; manufacturers of electronic equipment; and many other maritime interests.

The four-day event will also feature a course in preliminary and feasibility design of ships, a Student Congress, the President's

Reception, and traditional events such as the President's

Luncheon, Annual Banquet, and Dinner Dance. The 1995 SNAME show is a superb opportunity to view the latest in technology, debate the issues affecting the industry, and expand one's circle of influential maritime professionals. Nineteen sessions comprise the technical portion of the meeting; each designed to aid in assessing issues related to requirements for global competitive- ness, discuss a variety of government initiatives, and evaluate con- cepts and strategies for dealing with changes in the shipbuilding industry. The papers to be presented, and the presenters, are arranged as follows, by scheduled day of presentation. g——————j

Scheduled Sessions For

Thursday, October 5

Can Technology Revitalize Our

Shipbuilding Industry ?

John M. Stewart, Arthur J.

Haskell

The Future of Shipbuilding, Navy

Acquisition and the Global Market

Duane D. "Buzz" Fitzgerald,

Paul Robinson, Gene

Pentimonti

Second Tier Shipyards' Approach to

Becoming Internationally

Competitive

John Dane, Brinson Miles,

Boysie Bollinger

Using Intelligent Simulation Tools to Optimize Performance in the

Collaborative Virtual Shipbuilding

Enterprise

Vivek Samant, Spencer French,

Howard Bunch

Naval Ships and Simulation Based

Design

James S. Boudreaux

A Review of Technology, Imple- mentation, and Strategies for

Further Improvement in U.S.

Shipbuilding

Thomas Lamb, A. Allan, J.

Clark, G.R. Snaith

Competitive Manning for the

International U.S.-Flag Fleet

Paul T. Weber, Henry S. Marcus

A Repair Management System for

Fatigue Cracks in Ships

Robert G. Bea, Kai-tung Ma

A Computational Method for

Analysis of Container Vessels

Sverre Valsgard, Tor E.

Svensen, Harald Thorkildsen

Design of Oceanographic Surface

Moorings for Harsh-Weather

Environments

Mark A. Grosenbaugh, Spyros

A. Mavrakos

Scheduled Sessions For Friday,

October 6

Naval Affordability: Right Heading,

Wrong Course

Thomas M. Rivers, Thomas R.

Schiller

Commercialization, Standardiza- tion, and Acquisition Reform

Thomas P. Mackey, Aaron G.

Bresnahan, John Gorton,

Andrew M. Kendrick

The President's Shipbuilding

Initiative

J. Byrne, James C. Card, Don

Phillups, John Graykowski,

Robert W. Schaffran

The Open-Top Containership — A

U.S. Experience

Peter Fischer, Philip Alman

New Ships from Old: An Innovative

Approach to Fleet Enhancement

Hugh S. Rynn, Eugene A. Van

Rybach, Hans G. Nilsen

Resistance and Propulsion in Ice

Using System Identification

Techniques

Robert A. Dick, Andrew D.

Prior, T.H. Peirce

Tanker Escort: Requirements,

Assessment and Validation

Sridhar Jagannathan, David L.

Gray, Thomas Mathai, Johan H. deJong

Scheduled Sessions For

Saturday, October 7

Double Hull Tanker Research —

Further Studies

Jerome Sikora, Robert W.

Michaelson, Donald P.

Roseman, Raymond H. Juers,

William M. Melton

Simulation of 3-D Sloshing and

Structural Response in Ship's Tanks

Taking Account of Fluid-Structure

Interaction

S.H. Lee, J.Y. Kim, K. J. Lee, J.M.

Kang, D.J. Yum, Y.S. Seol, S.

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