1987 SSC Symposium

Ship Structures Symposium '87: Marine Structural Reliability Symposium OCTOBER 5-6, 1987 Sheraton National Hotel, Arlington, VA    The papers presented at the 1987 SSC Symposium highlight some recent SSC research along with other topics that are of great interest to the SSC. An electronic copy of each paper can be searched similar, to the SSC reports, on the Search Reports page or by clicking on the paper title hyper-links on the 1987 SSC symposium Agenda page. The Symposium is jointly sponsored by the interagency Ship Structure Committee and the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. This is the fifth in a scheduled series of symposia jointly sponsored by these two organizations, following the Ship Structures Symposia in 1975 and 1984, the Ship Vibration Symposium in 1978 and the Extreme Loads Response Symposium in 1981. In recent years, the statistical nature of structural loadings and responses has become better understood, and design techniques have been developed considering this new information. It is timely, therefore, that the available technology be publicized and discussed in an open forum by those engaged in ship and offshore structure design, construction and operation. The Marine Structural Reliability Symposium brings together representatives of the ship and offshore structural community including owners, operators, builders, designers, researchers, government agencies and classification bodies to discuss major aspects of structural reliability methods. The eighteen technical papers that comprise the program cover a range of topics in applications of reliability methods, ship and offshore structure design, reliability design methods, fatigue and system reliability, structural inspection and maintenance, and design codes. This year the Symposium Committee formed a Panel Session of experts to have an open discussion on structural reliability methods. Sincerely, Donald Liu Chairman Marine Structural Reliability Symposium (1987)