Background and Aims

Hydroelasticity is of concern in various areas of marine technology such as:

• High speed vessels
  
• Large scale floating structures such as floating airports, floating bridges and buoyant tunnels
  
• Risers
  
• Cable systems and umbilicals for remotely operated or tethered underwater vehicles
  
• Seismic cable systems
  
• Flexible containers for water transport, oil spill recovery and other purposes
  

Analysis for design of such structures or systems necessitates integration of hydrodynamics and structural mechanics; hydroelasticity plays the key role. There has been significant recent progress in research into hydroelastic phenomena, and the topic of hydroelasticity is of considerable current interest. In order to promote further progress in this area, we have decided to organize the Second International Conference on Hydroelasticity in Marine Technology. This follows the very successful "First" Symposium held in Trondheim, Norway in 1994.
The aim of this second conference is to provide a forum for engineers and scientists to discuss recent developments in hydroelasticity. It is also to stimulate the exchange of ideas and information between various disciplines in science and engineering, in particular marine hydrodynamics, structural mechanics and control technology.

Preliminary Session Topics

• Analytical and numerical methods
  
• Techniques for laboratory and in-service investigations
  
• Stochastic methods
  
• Vibration of floating airports and other floating structures
  
• Slamming, whipping and springing of conventional ships and high-speed vessels
  
• Ringing and springing of tension leg platforms and deep water gravity-based platforms
  
• Position control of tethered vehicles
  
• Cable systems, mooring lines and umbilicals
  
• Risers and pipelines
  
• Control of seismic cables
  
• Skirt and bag systems of Surface Effect Ships
  
• Behavior of flexible containers
  
• Oil fence
  
• Experience from engineering and aeronautical engineering
  

Call for Papers
Papers are invited on the topics outlined and others falling within the scope of the Conference. Prospective authors should submit an abstract of no more than 300 words in English to the Conference Secretariat no later than March 31, 1998, together with the reply form included in the distributed leaflet.
Abstracts should be prepared using the LaTeX template available from the WWW homepages. Delegates who do not have access to the web site but who do have access to email facilities should email the Conference Secretariat to obtain a template. Authors who cannot submit abstracts using LaTeX should contact the Conference Secretary directly.
The submitted abstracts will be reviewed and authors will be notified about acceptance by April 30, 1998. The final camera-ready manuscript will be required by September 15, 1998. Complete instructions on the format of full-length papers will be mailed to the authors and also will be available on the WWW homepages.

Conference Secretariat
Prof. Masashi Kashiwagi (Hydroelasticity '98)
RIAM, Kyushu University
6-1 Kasuga-koen, Kasuga-city
Fukuoka 816, Japan
Tel: +81-92-583-7747 Fax: +81-92-592-4832
E-mail: kashi@riam.kyushu-u.ac.jp

Important Dates

March 31, 1998:	Submission of abstracts
April 30, 1998:	Notification of acceptance
July 31, 1998:	Preliminary programme, registration form
September 15, 1998:	Submission of camera-ready full papers

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