| December 6, 1999 | ||
| Application Deadline of ISOPE Offshore Mechanics Scholarship For 2000- 2001 School Year is March 31, 2000 | ||
| The International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers (ISOPE) encourages
college graduate students and entering new graduate students to study and/or to conduct
research in any fields in Offshore Mechanics and Polar Engineering, or to
participate in the annual ISOPE Conferences. For this purpose, ISOPE will award scholarships of $500 each for the academic year 2000-2001. Five scholarships were granted for year 1999-2000. The recipients are encouraged to join the ISOPE student membership. To apply, send the following information to the Awards Committee: (1) an official graduate school transcript for current graduate students and official undergraduate transcript for entering graduate students; (2) a letter of recommendation from the thesis supervising faculty, department chairperson, or an ISOPE member on your campus, and (3) an application form. To get application forms, see your advisor who may have a form, or write or fax to the Awards Committee, ISOPE, P.O. Box 189, Cupertino, California 95015-0189, USA: Fax 1-408-980-1787 or download from ISOPE’s website: http://www.isope.org. Past Award recipients for 1991-99 were graduate students at: Monash Univ (Australia), University of Western Australia (Australia), Memorial Univ of NFLD (Canada), Dalian Univ of Technology (China), Karlsruhe Univ (Germany), Univ of Tokyo (Japan), Nagoya Univ (Japan), Hong-ik Univ (Korea), Far Eastern State Tech Univ (Russia), M.I.T. (USA), Colorado School of Mines (USA), Stanford Univ (USA), Univ of Calif at Berkeley (USA), Texas A&M Univ (USA), Univ of Texas at Austin (USA), South Dakota School of Mines (USA), University of New Orleans (USA), and Ukraine State Maritime Tech Univ (Ukraine). ISOPE holds the Annual International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conferences (ISOPE) (e.g., annual conference proceedings in 2,500–3,500 pages), and specialty and regional symposia with active graduate student participation. Its technical program has been the world's largest of its kind with refereed papers, and also publishes Quarterly International Journal of Offshore and Polar Engineering. Deadline of abstract submission for ISOPE-2000 has been extendedAs the request of our prospective authors, the deadline for abstarct submission for ISOPE-2000 has been extended to September 30, 1999. Detailed information is available at ISOPE-2000 Call for Paper. |
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| August 12, 1999 | ||
| Ocean Energy and Resources and Wave Energy at ISOPE-99 Conference in Brest, France | ||
| At this, the ninth ISOPE Conference, Wave Energy continued to attract more papers and
larger audiences. The 3 sessions covering Ocean Energy and Resources contained 18 papers,
of which 13 were on Wave Energy topics, 3 on Ocean Mining and 2 on Tidal Power. The Wave Energy papers were further subdivided into converters and devices for extracting energy from the waves (7 papers), prime movers for producing shaft power (5 papers), and economics (one paper). The papers presented regarding wave energy and extraction devices were of two types: Those which relied on the inertia of floats, or a pendulum reacting against the motion of the waves, to transmit energy to a generator via a system of gears or an hydraulic pump and motor system. In the second type air motion was induced by the motion of the waves in an oscillating water column, or via a flexible membrane. In all cases an air turbine was used to extract the energy from the air and drive a generator. All the papers were concerned with reporting improvements in performance and prediction methods over those reported at previous ISOPE Conferences. The prime movers described were air turbines, and the papers were concerned with optimising performance and improving structural integrity. The authors emphasised that, to maximise the output from a wave energy converter, the turbine must be optimised for a particular converter over the full range of sea states seen by that converter. An interesting debate was entered into over whether the self-rectifying Wells or impulse turbine provided a better solution. The discussion will continue for some time, with ISOPE 2000 providing a further forum for that discussion. The paper on economics was very well attended; this will be an important topic area for ISOPE 2000. The opinion of the author, which was disputed by some of the audience, was that wave energy was unlikely to make a noticeable impact on the future supply of sustainable energy. This was based not on the availability of the resource, but on the cost of extraction. This debate will continue, and ISOPE 2000 will make special reference to it. By Peter White, Coventry University, United Kingdom |
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| August 10, 1999 | ||
| New ISOPE Address: ISOPE HQ Now in San Francisco Bay Area () | ||
| ISOPE Headquarters (HQ) has moved to and is in operation in the San Francisco Bay
Area. Accordingly, addresses for ISOPE membership, meetings, publication and
information services have been changed as follows: 1. Address for all mail (e.g., membership, meetings, publication and information services, etc.): ISOPE PO Box 189 Cupertino, California 95015-0189 USA Tel: 1-408-980-1784; Fax: 1-408-980-1787 E-mail: meetings@isope.org, orders@isope.org, info@isope.org
2. Street address for Express Mail and Courier delivery only: ISOPE 1900 Wyatt Drive, Suite 11 Santa Clara, California 95054 USA Tel: 1-408-980-1784; Fax: 1-409-980-1787
Urgent Technical Program Committee (TPC) and Journal communications to Prof. Jin S Chung can be transmitted through Fax: 1-408-980-1787 and E-mail (jschung@isope.org). Visit our Website: www.isope.org. |
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| August 8, 1999 | ||
| Third (1999) ISOPE Ocean Mining Symposium & Workshop: Program Now Available | ||
| The Third (1999) ISOPE Ocean Mining Symposium & Workshop ( ISOPE OMS-99), which is
organized by the Ocean Mining Working Group, is to be held from November 8–10, 1999,
in Goa, India. The venue is the National Institute of Oceanography. The symposium features 10 sessions of refereed papers and 1 workshop on the environment from 10 countries:
Sponsors of the symposium includes:
Foreign participants should mail the Advance Registration (and Invoice) Form with US$200 to: ISOPE OMS-99, ISOPE, Cupertino, California, US (Fax 1-408-980-1787). The fee includes proceedings, reception and 3 lunch tickets, and must be received by ISOPE before OCTOBER 8. For those who need visa applications, it is suggested to ask for a letter of invitation from: OMS-99 Secretariat, India (Fax: +91-832-223340). Hotel reservation could be made by using the form in the symposium program. For guaranteed reservation the form must be received via either fax or mail only and should be no later than August 30 by ISOPE OMS-99 secretariat, India. The 1st (1995) ISOPE Ocean Mining Symposium (ISOPE OMS-95) was held in Tsukuba, and the 2nd (1997) ISOPE OMS-97 in Seoul. For detail program and the forms for ISOPE OMS-99, click ISOPE OMS-99 Program and ISOPE-OMS-99 Registration Form. |
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| July 21, 1999 | ||
| Chung Elected the President of ISOPE | ||
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| ISOPE PACOMS and EUROMS symposiums,
1989;Co-founder of the annual ISOPE conference, 1990; Co-founder of the ISOPE Ocean Mining
Symposium, 1995; Founder of the International Deep-Ocean Technology Symposium, 1996;
Founding Chairman (1985-89) and First Chairman (1985) of the ASME Offshore Mechanics and
Arctic Engineering Division; Founder and Chair (1981-89) of the Offshore Mechanics and
Arctic Engineering Symposium, where he introduced "Offshore Mechanics" in 1981;
a key founding member and a member of the Board of Directors of the International Society
of Offshore and Polar Engineers (1989-96 ). Dr. Chung received his B.S. (1961) degree in naval architecture and aeronautical engineering from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea; his M.S. (1964) in naval architecture from the University of California at Berkeley; and his Ph.D. (1969) degree in engineering mechanics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He was a research naval architect at the David Taylor Model Basin, the U.S. Navy, Bethesda, Maryland (1964-66); a senior research engineer with the Offshore Division, Exxon Production Research Co., Houston (1969-73); a staff engineer with Lockheed Missiles & Space Co. Ocean Systems and the leader of the advanced technology and systems team for the Deep-Ocean Mining Program (1973-1980). He is the Technical Editor of the International Journal of Offshore and Polar Engineering (1991– ); Technical Editor, ASME Journal of Energy Resources Technology (1980-85); and Associate Editor, Applied Mechanics Reviews (1984–93). He has received national and international awards including the ASME Eugene W. Jacobsen (best paper) Award (1978), Amoco Foundation Outstanding Teaching Award (1983), ASME Fellow (1984), ISOPE Neptune Award (1992). He has served or chaired many national and international committees. He has been consultant to the industry and government, internationally active, and invited lecturers in many countries: He has authored and edited more than 200 papers, books and reports. |
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| June 20, 1999 | ||
| Society Members Elect Two New Board Members: Knapp and Matsui | ||
| The Society election was held in May 1999 to elect members of the board
of directors of the International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers (ISOPE) in
accordance with the ISOPE Bylaws. The two new members of the Board of Directors
(1999-2001) are: Ronald H. Knapp Professor of mechanical engineering and ocean engineering, University of Hawaii at Manoa (1975– ); Ph.D. (1973) from Ocean Engineering University of Hawaii, M.S.M.E.(1968) from California Institute of Technology, Structural Solutions, Inc., President, (1980-present); Humboldt Fellow, Germany (1981-82); Member (1993- ), TPC member (1993- ); Co-Chair, 7th Annual ISOPE Conference, Honolulu (1997); ISOPE Award (1997); Chairman, ASME Ocean Engineering Division (1985-86); J. of Energy Resources Technology; Assoc. Editor (1983-88); Applied Mechanics Reviews, Associate Editor (1985-88). Tamotsu Matsui Professor of Geotechnical Engineering, Osaka University, Japan (69– ). D. Eng from Osaka (1975); Visiting Scholar at University of California at Berkeley (1978-79); Published more than 100 papers; Member (1994– ); TPC member (1994– ); Chairman, Geotechnical Engineering Committee (1997– ); Associate Editor of International Journal of Offshore and Polar Engineering (IJOPE, 1997– ); Technical Committee member, Kansai International Airport and remediations of the 1995 Kobe Earthquake; Executive board member, JSCE and General Secretary of the Kansai Chapter (1991-1993), and Japan Geotechnical Society and president of the Kansai Branch (1998-1999); Also, fellow, the Japan Society of Civil Engineering (JSCE), Japanese Geotechnical Society (JGS), International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, ASCE. Also the terms renewed by the election for 1999-2001 are Ivar Langen, Høgskolen i Stavanger, Norway (1997-2001), Michel Olagnon, Ifremer, Plouzané, France (1997-2001) and Robert Frederking, Hydraulic Research Centre, National Research Council Canada, Ottawa, Canada (1997-2001).The members of the Board of Directors are balanced in geopolitical distribution among the American, European and Asian Continents. Each serves a two-year term, and the term is renewable once, but by the election. |
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| July 10, 1999 | ||
| ISOPE-2000, the 10th Annual ISOPE Conference | ||
ISOPE-2000, the 10th annual ISOPE Conference will be held in Seattle Sheraton Hotel, Seattle, USA, from May 28 to June 2, 1999. The deadline for abstract submission is August 15, 1999. Click on Call For Paper for more information. Information for the emerald city Seattle is also available. |
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| July 10, 1999 | ||
| Japan’s VLFS | ||
General. Research and development of very large floating structures (VLFS) in Japan aim at realization of very large floating islands such as for airports, port facilities, factories, leisure islands, and so on. The R&D has been very actively carried out by the Technical Research Association of Mega-Float (TRAM), national research institutes and universities. The fields of technology range widely: fabrication and floating construction, design of the floating structure, onboard function guarantee, ultra-long durability of steel structure and evaluation of environmental impact. National Project. Seventeen shipbuilding and steel making companies under the direction of Ministry of Transport (MOT) participate in TRAM as an national research project. Phase 1 (FY1995–97) addressed general problems of VLFS, and Phase 2 (ongoing) will focus on floating airports until FY2000. The national research institutes of MOT and the Ministry of International Trade and Industries (MITI), as well as several universities, have carried out independently their own research work and sometimes have cooperated with TRAM in theoretical and experimental field. Many papers on Japan’s VLFS presented at the ISOPE-99 Brest Conference were based on such movement. Mr. Inoue, Hitachi Zosen, introduced the whole aspect of Mega-Float through Phase 1 and Phase 2 at the conference's opening session. Dr. Kashiwagi, Kyushu University, reviewed and interpreted at the plenary presentation the theoretical field of hydroelasticity, including responses in waves of pontoon-type and semisubmersible-type VLFS, and tried to classify those various techniques into groups. Presentations of individual studies on Mega-Float included:
Independent presentations from Japanese universities included: reduction of elastic response; compressional wave field caused by a vibrated floating body; time history of elastic response to sea shock load; and dispersion relation of hydroelastic waves and dynamic responses. by Kiyoshi Inoue, Hitachi Zosen Corp., Tokyo, Japan |
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| July 7, 1999 | ||
| Mobile Offshore Base – Research Spin-offs | ||
A Mobile Offshore Base (MOB) is a large floating platform that provides a forward-deployable logistics facility for military hardware. Capable of handling conventional fixed wing aircraft, the MOB will nominally be 1500 m (5000 ft) long. Critical technologies include design standards, analysis tools, and design concepts. Although the overall research program focuses on the fundamental question of whether a MOB is feasible, the funded research work in design standards, analysis tools, and component concepts is helping to advance the general design and analysis capabilities of the offshore industry. The concept of a Mobile Offshore Base (MOB) reflects the United States’ need to stage and support military operations, including humanitarian operations, anywhere in the world. A MOB is a self-propelled, floating, prepositioned base that could accept cargo from cargo planes and container ships and discharge resources to the shore via a variety of craft. MOB may provide 275,000 m2 (3 million ft2) of reconfigurable internal storage plus 40,000 m3 (10 million gallons) of fuel storage and house up to 3,000 troops (an Army heavy brigade). Many of the MOB requirements are unprecedented:
From ISOPE-99 Brest paper by Robert Zueck, Paul Palo, Robert Taylor and Gene Remmers |
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| July 07, 1999 | ||
| ISOPE-99 Brest Breaks Previous All-Time Attendance Record of ISOPE-97 Honolulu Conference | ||
| ISOPE-99, the Ninth Annual International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference, was held at Le Quartz Convention Center in Brest, France, May 31-June 4. A huge success, it broke the all-time attendance record of ISOPE-97 Honolulu. Gaining worldwide recognition for high-level technology, this annual conference continues to receive broad support from industry, academia and government. It was, again, the world’s largest technical program of its kind with refereed papers, attracting even more industry participants than in previous years. Concurrent events were the Osates exhibition with 90 booths and Technomer. Please click on ISOPE-99 Updates for more information. Photos of ISOPE-99 are also aviablable by clicking on the following pictures. | ||
| June 23, 1999 | ||
| ISOPE-99 Brest Conference Broke the Previous Attendance Record | ||
ISOPE-99 Brest broke the previous attendance record of ISOPE-97 Honolulu Conference. ISOPE-99 Brest, The Ninth (1999) Annual International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference, was held at Le Quartz Convention Center, Brest, France, May 31–June 4, 1999.
The Technical Program Committee (TPC) features 96 technical and opening sessions and 6 plenary sessions. Top experts from the industry, academia and government made 445 refereed paper and 30 oral presentations, which were followed by discussions by researchers, engineers and managers. The ISOPE-99 program was again the world’s largest technical program of its kind with refereed papers. The papers were selected from more than 700 abstracts received from 45 countries. The conference proceedings (3,061 pages est. in 4 volumes) are available from ISOPE after the Conference.
Advance registration fee was $510 for the authors, that included the entire proceedings set, reception, banquet and Breton Night at Ecole Naval (The French Naval Academy). The fee for the ISOPE-2000, the 10th anniversary, is expected to remain at the same level.
ISOPE-99 Brest is sponsored by ISOPE — the International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers (ISOPE) and organized with cooperation of 20 major international engineering societies and organizations.
More announcements will follow. |
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| June 23, 1999 | ||
| ISOPE Offshore Mechanics Scholarship For 2000- 2001 School Year | ||
The International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers (ISOPE) encourages college graduate students and entering new graduate students to study and/or to conduct research in any fields in Offshore Mechanics and Polar Engineering, or to participate in the annual ISOPE Conferences where the student participation has increased every year.
The ISOPE-99 Brest Conference broke the previous attendance record of ISOPE-97 Honolulu Conference.
For this purpose, ISOPE will award scholarships of $500 each for the academic year 2000-2001. Five scholarships were granted for 1999-2000. The recipients are encouraged to join the ISOPE student membership.
To apply, send the following information to the Awards Committee: (1) an official graduate school transcript for current graduate students and official undergraduate transcript for entering graduate students; (2) a letter of recommendation from the thesis supervising faculty, department chairperson, or an ISOPE member on your campus, and (3) an application form.
To get application forms, see your advisor who may have a form, or write or fax to the Awards Committee, ISOPE, P.O. Box 189, Cupertino, California 95015–0189, USA: or download from ISOPE’s website: http://www.isope.org. Application Deadline is March 31, 2000.
Past Award recipients for 1991-99 were graduate students at: Monash Univ (Australia), Univ of Western Australia, Memorial Univ of NFLD (Canada), Dalian Univ of Technology (China), Karlsruhe Univ (Germany), Nagoya Univ (Japan), Univ of Tokyo (Japan), Hong-ik Univ (Korea), Far Eastern State Tech Univ (Russia), Ukraine State Maritime Tech Univ (Ukraine), M.I.T. (USA), Colorado School of Mines (USA), Stanford Univ (USA), Univ of Calif at Berkeley (USA), Texas A&M Univ (USA), Univ of Texas at Austin (USA), Univ of New Orleans, South Dakoda School of Mines. |
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| June 22, 1999 | ||
| Five Students Received the 1999- 2000 ISOPE Offshore Mechanics Scholarships | ||
The International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers (ISOPE) is proud to announce the 5 recipients of the 1999-2000 ISOPE Offshore Mechanics Scholarships as follows:
Mr. Chengwang Lei, University of Western Australia, Australia Mr. Dong-soo Hur, Nagoya University, Japan Mr. D.G. Roddier, University of California at Berkeley, USA Mr. Heuisoo Han, South Dakota School of Mines, USA Mr. William E. Rodrigues, Student member, University of New Orleans, USA
Graduate students and entering new graduate students from all continents can apply, who study and/or to conduct research in any fields in Offshore Mechanics and Polar Engineering, or to participate in the annual ISOPE Conferences where the student participation has increased every year.
For application forms, check Student Scholarships. |
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| April 30, 1999 | ||
Proceedings of the 9th International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference (ISOPE-99), Brest, France, May 30- June 4, 1999, are published by the International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers (ISOPE). Only refereed papers are printed: Oral presentation papers are not included in the proceedings. For a set of 4 volumes (ISBN ISBN 1-880653-39- 7; ISSN 1098-6189: approx. 3,060 pp., US$380 (ISOPE Member, US$300). For a single volume, US$130 (ISOPE Member, US$90) plus postage and handling.
For ISOPE-99 Conference Proceeding Contents, click ISOPE-99 Conference Proceedings, and for order information, go to Publication Orders. |
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| April 25, 1999 | ||
| ISOPE-99 Technical Program | ||
| ISOPE has updated ISOPE-99 Technical Program. The ISOPE-99 Technical Program Update is available for downloading. | ||
| April 12, 1999 | ||
| ISOPE EUROMS-99 Technical Program | ||
Coinciding with the 50th anniversary
of AO VNIIST, the 2nd ISOPE
International Pipeline Symposium (ISOPE EUROMS- 99) will be held in Moscow, June 7- 9,
1999. The Symposium focuses on the industry-based topics of pipelay and construction,
materials, engineering and design, and environment and database. It features 7 sessions of
refereed and invited papers from 9 countries. |
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| February 7, 1999 | ||
| Deadline for the ISOPE Offshore Mechanics Scholarship | ||
The deadline for the ISOPE Offshore Mechanics Scholarship for 1999-2000 School Year is March 31, 1999. The ISOPE encourages college graduate students and entering new graduate students to study and/or to conduct research in any fields in Offshore Mechanics and Polar Engineering, or to participate in the annual ISOPE Conferences. For this purpose, ISOPE will award scholarships of $500 each for the academic year 1999-2000. Five scholarships were granted for 1998-99. The recipients are encouraged to join the ISOPE student membership. To apply, send the following information to the Awards Committee: (1) an official graduate school transcript for current graduate students and official undergraduate transcript for entering graduate students; (2) a letter of recommendation from the thesis supervising faculty, department chairperson, or an ISOPE member on your campus, and (3) an application form. To get application forms, see your advisor who may have a form, or write or fax to the Awards Committee, ISOPE, P.O. Box 1107, Golden, Colorado 80402-1107, USA: Fax 1-303-420-3760 or copy from ISOPE’s Student Scholarships. |
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| January 16, 1999 | ||
| ISOPE-99 Technical Program | ||
ISOPE-99 Technical Program is available for downloading. The Technical Program includes Refereed papers from 45 countries in 95 sessions and 5 plenary sessions. The Technical Program, Forms for Registration, Hotel, and Publication are also available at ISOPE-99 official website: http://www.ifremer.fr/isope99 . |
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| January 15, 1999 | ||
| ISOPE 2000 Annual Conference | ||
| After all-time record-breaking attendance at ISOPE-97 Honolulu and successive world’s largest conferences of its kind with refereed papers at ISOPE-98 Montréal and ISOPE-99 Brest, ISOPE-2000, its 10th anniversary conference, is being organized by the International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers (ISOPE) with 20 cooperating organizations and societies. Its objectives are to provide a timely international forum for researchers and engineers. |
