FOUR SHORT COURSES AT 2014 SNAME MARITIME CONVENTION PROVIDE CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS
SNAME Maritime Convention will offer professional engineers an opportunity to earn continuing education credits through one of four all-day courses scheduled during the 2014 SNAME Maritime Convention, October 20-25 at the Hyatt Regency in Houston, Texas.
SMC 2014 attendees also have the opportunity to attend all three days of the technical program, Wednesday, October 22 through Friday, October 24 (see the SMC web site for information on the papers and presentations:
Course #1: Aluminum Vessel Structures
Aluminum is an attractive material for the structure in weight-critical ship designs. While aluminum offers superior static strength-to-weight ratios compared with steel there are a number of challenges in using this material. This course will discuss these challenges and provide a comprehensive introduction to the use of aluminum in ship structures covering the following topics: Aluminum and Aluminum Alloys; Extrusions; Corrosion; Fire; Loads; Design; Ultimate Strength of Structures; and Fatigue and Fracture.
Course #2: Introduction to Offshore Engineering
Floating offshore facilities continue to serve the offshore industry and provide energy around the world. This course will provide ocean engineers, naval architects, marine engineers and other interested conference participants an introduction to the offshore engineering design practices for the development of floating offshore oil and gas facilities and associated systems. The topics will include: a brief history of offshore oil and gas facilities; general design process; regulatory and class societies; metocean data and extreme meteorological events (hurricane, typhoon); semi submersibles, tension leg platforms, spars, and ship shapes; vessel stability and dynamics; wind, current, and wave environmental forces; riser and mooring system analysis; and subsea systems and remotely operated vehicles.
Course #3: An Overview of the Design of Advanced Marine Vehicles
The naval architect's toolbox includes hull forms other than monohulls. For certain missions, catamarans, trimarans, SWATH and SES may be better choices. Yet naval architects may be hesitant to pursue such hull forms due to the absence of a "comfort level" with these options.
This course will introduce the design of these craft, providing a practicing naval architect with tools for understanding the niche that each one occupies – i.e. when this hull form might be the most appropriate for the mission – as well as an overview of the nuances of each design.
Course #4: Global Analysis – An Introduction to Met-Ocean Data and Spectral Analysis
In dealing with many offshore design and operation issues, naval architects and engineers are faced with a lack of site or route specific environmental information. This course will be in two parts, first an introduction to the development of met-ocean data and criteria and then on how to use such data in spectral analysis to obtain vessel motions.
