Calls for Papers

SNAME, working in conjunction with the National Shipbuilding Research Program Advanced Shipbuilding Enterprise (NSRE- ASE) welcomes papers in all areas related to ship production.  

The Ship Production Symposium is an element of the SNAME Annual Meeting & Expo.

2012 International Marine Forensics Symposium
April 3-5, 2012 – National Harbor, MD 

This symposium brings together marine professionals and historians to exchange information on historic marine losses, on marine forensic investigation processes and tools, and on case studies where causes of failures and losses have been determined or are under continued study.  The 2012 International Marine Forensics Symposium (the Symposium) will introduce Marine Forensic Investigations Guidelines, a handbook of new and existing work to provide information about planning and executing a marine forensic investigation.  The Symposium is jointly sponsored by several national and international technical societies, and speakers are anticipated from these societies, government, and private citizens.  Mr. James Cameron will be the keynote speaker

The Symposium roughly coincides with the 100th Anniversary of the Titanic disaster of 1912. Authors and researchers are encouraged to submit papers presentation topics for consideration for inclusion. Visit www.sname.org/SNAME/Forensics2012 for comprehensive information.

Papers and Presentations Sought
Technical papers suitable for publication are invited on topics related to marine forensics investigations, their findings, processes, and results including:
•	Historic and contemporary losses including shipwrecks, sinkings, capsizes, allisions, collisions
•	Civilian or military losses due to foundering, war damage or any other means
•	Investigations of damage to hull and machinery, failures due to accident, environmental loading, or other causes
•	Diving in support of forensic investigations, including the use of ROVs, AUVs, manned submersibles, and other remote sensors
•	Human factors associated with marine forensic losses
•	Marine forensic operations related to aircraft loss investigations
•	Designation as a forensic investigation site vs. historic grave site and associated human remains issues
•	Underwater archaeology and...

MARSTRUCT 2011
3rd International Conference on Marine Structures
28 – 30 March 2011, Hamburg, Germany

The 3rd MARSTRUCT Conference, following two successful conferences 2007 in Lisbon and 2009 in Glasgow, will be organized at the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) in March 2011. It has its origin in the MARSTRUCT Network of Excellence, but is becoming a series of Conferences dedicated to Marine Structures to allow periodic reporting and discussion of the advances in the field.

The first two Conferences brought together 120 papers from authors of 20 countries, several of which outside Europe. The Proceedings have been published by Taylor & Francis in books.

This third edition of the Conference aims at building on the previous ones and expanding it to a wider community interested in the various aspects related with Marine Structures, keeping a good standard of peer-reviewed papers in the proceedings which will be printed in books of

Call for Papers
“Energy from the Oceans”
February 9th, 2010

The SNAME Texas Section is soliciting papers for presentation at the February 2010 Offshore Symposium, “Energy from the Oceans”. The technical program will look at the ‘traditional’ offshore sector and the ‘emerging ocean alternative energy”. The symposium will explore how the ocean alternative energy can benefit from the lessons learned in offshore technology.

26-27 January 2011, London, UK  

The conference will focus on the assessment and analysis of stability, strength, sea worthiness of a ship damaged by collision, grounding, structural failure, fire or explosion. It will also consider procedures to minimise negative consequences for passengers, crew, ship, environment and to develop safe countermeasures including sequences for transferring, offloading cargo and ballast water for salvage operations.

After any major accident it is imperative to rapidly quantify the damage, assess damage stability and the residual strength of a vessel. Damage stability appraisal should also consider the likelihood of progressive flooding, capsizing probability and effect of waves on stability. There is a need to consider both the global strength capability of the ship structure and the local residual strength of damaged and buckled plating and the effect of flooding on internal structure.

A number of organisations already offer ship owners a range of Emergency Response Services (ERS) including shore-based expert assistance and computer-based contingency planning systems.

The aim of this conference is to bring together designers, operators, classification societies and legislative government bodies to consider the present state-of-the-art and future developments.

22-23 March 2011, London, UK   

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is now used to solve a wide range of maritime applications from resistance prediction to slamming loads calculation. While it may still lack the accuracy to match results obtained in real-life experiments, it can provide important insights into physical flow characteristics and offers an economic way to investigate a range of design options. 

Generic CFD codes often lack some features and capabilities needed to address specific maritime applications. The presence of the free surface provides a major departure from conventional CFD applications. The need to represent this fluid interface accurately presents a considerable challenge, not least because its behaviour can vary considerably within the computational domain, and as a function of hull form and speed. 
While it might not yet be possible to develop a single CFD tool suitable for all maritime applications significant progress has been made in the past two decades towards the development of the 'numerical towing tank' and 'virtual basin or cavitation tunnel'. Research and development work is still ongoing to enhance their stability, accuracy, computational speed and to integrate CFD into the overall design process.

Abstracts for SPS papers are being accepted until June 30, 2010.

16 & 17 February, 2010  The Maritime Institute of Technology and Graduate Studies (MITAGS) in Linthicum, MD