T & R News

  • TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD ANNUAL MEETING WASHINGTON, D.C.,
      JANUARY 10, 2000 SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION RODNEY E. SLATER
  • Workshop on Tanker Design
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  • SNAME Sponsors Webb Student Project
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  • New Ad Hoc Panel on Ballast Water Management
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  • ONR (Office of Naval Research): Concurrent Technologies
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  • Looking Back at Ad Hoc Panels and Their Accomplishments
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  • New Panel 0-44


    • T&R Introduction

    This is the fifth edition of the T&R Newsletter. The purpose of the newsletter is to provide technical information of interest to SNAME members and to keep them up-to-date with the activities of the T&R program. One of the objectives of this particular Newsletter is to introduce you to the SNAME website and the information that is available there. Hopefully, the SNAME website will serve to enhance and facilitate the T&R process and will eventually replace this newsletter.

    Members are welcome to comment on the T&R Program and the contents of the T&R Newsletter by contacting Tom Mackey, Chair of the T&R Steering Committee, in writing c/o SNAME Headquarters, via fax at (201) 798-4975 or send email.


    T&R Under 30 Program

    SNAME encourages our younger members to participate in the T&R Program. President O'Neil mentioned this in his address at the Annual Meeting luncheon in Ottawa. The T&R Committees will make every effort to place any interested members under 30 on technical panels that are of interest to them. Please contact Connie Cali-Poutré (ext. 3030) at SNAME Headquarters and mention your area of interest or the specific panel you wish to be associated with.

    SNAME T&R is planning to take full advantage of modern electronic communications and the SNAME web site to make technical panel participation available to all members even if they are not able to travel to panel meetings. Please see the article on Panel O-44 in this Newsletter.


    Newly Funded T&R Projects

    The following T&R projects were approved for funding at the October 15, T&R Steering Committee meeting in Ottawa. Additional projects may be funded during the current fiscal year. Requests should be submitted through a technical panel or committee for approval before submittal to the T&R Steering Committee. For information contact Connie Cali-Poutré or Charlie Wilson at SNAME Headquarters.

    SD-7 Damage Stability Analysis of the Lusitania

    SD-7 Hull Structural Analysis of the Titanic $8000

    SD-1 Weight Estimating and Margin Policy Manual - $6000

    SD-3 IMO 1992 Rules for Probabilistic Damage Stability (Phase II) - $4000

    HS-4 Development of Reliability Based Design Rules of Ship Structures - $6400

    (Project sponsored by direct funding to SNAME from the U.S. Coast Guard)

    M-38 State of the Art of Marine Fuel Cell Technology - $900

    (See article on page 1 of this newsletter)

    Total $26,300