Another stepping stone in place with the successful installation of the new wave maker last week.

We had a preview of the work underway in the new hydrodynamics facility last week when visited by the epsrc representative for the national wind tunnel facility who are part funding the development.

THURSDAY 11/12/2014 12:00-13:00 B175/1025 Boldrewood Innovation Campus
We are very pleased to invite Professor Joerg Fliege, Director of CORMSIS (Centre for Operational Research, Management Science and Information Systems) at the University of Southampton to deliver an invited seminar on “The successful case of the optimizer WORHP”
WORHP – We Optimize Really Huge Problems. Professor Fliege was part of  the development team of the WORHP optimization solver and its processor FGS Toolbox, where he led the development of the multiobjective add-on FGS-MCS. He is presently part of the project team of AWACS (Adaption of WORHP for Avionics Constraints), where he is leading the extension of WORHP to multiobjective problems.
 

Many of you will be aware of the Advanced Technology Partnership that the University has with the Royal National Lifeboat Institution on Maritime Engineering and Safety (RNLI ATP). One important facet of this relationship is an annual public lecture delivered by a pre-eminent speaker on a topical subject. This year we are pleased to welcome double Olympic gold medallist and TV presenter, Shirley Robertson OBE, as our speaker for the 2014 RNLI ATP Lecture to be held on Wednesday, 3rd of December at the Turner Sims Concert Hall at 6pm.
Refreshments will be served in the foyer from 5:30pm.
For further information please visit the webpage:http://www.southampton.ac.uk/engineering/news/events/2014/12/03_the_rnli_lecture.page
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We look forward to seeing you at this event

We are very pleased to invite Professor Mike Hinto, Technology Director of National Composites Centre (NCC) to deliver our FSI/SMMI/LR and material group joint seminar on
The World–Wide Failure Exercises: Strength Prediction  Is NOT EASY …. but We’re Getting There ! 
NCC is one of seven UK Government sponsored ‘High Value Manufacturing Catapult Centres’. Prof. Hinto has more than 40 years of experience of working on programmes on composite materials and structures.
This joint seminar will stimulate discussions and close interaction between academics from different research groups of engineering faculty at the university and the specialists from LR on this interested topic.
Date:   Friday, 5th December 2014 
Room: Boldrewood campus B175 Seminar Room 1025
Time:   11:30-12:30 

Mr. Nigel White, Technical Manager for hydrodynamics in Lloyd’s Register’s Structural Analysis and Hydrodynamics team
21st November Boldrewood Innovation campus B175 Seminar Room 1025 (entrance through b176) Time: 11:00-12:30 
We are limited to 120 spaces for both University of Southampton and LR attendees so prompt attendance is recommended.

Abstract:
Lloyd’s Register is responsible for the development, implementation and maintenance of standards for the design, construction and operation of ships and offshore units. These standards, or ‘Rules’ are supplemented by additional verification procedures which are often assessed using advanced structural analysis techniques or similar direct calculation programs.
One example of this is the assessment of the strength of the LNG cargo containment system to resist sloshing actions, the assessment of the design sloshing loads and the assessment of the structural response and capacities are very complex and a simple definitive procedure is no longer applicable. .
Lloyd’s Register “Sloshing Acceptance Guidance Document for Membrane Tank LNG Operations” gave recommended design methods for the assessment of the cargo containment system.  This talk reviews some of the issues associated with the development of this document, related research tasks and also the processes followed by Lloyd’s Register in the design appraisal of LNG cargo containment systems and the recent application to FLNGs.
Biography
Technical Manager for hydrodynamics in Lloyd’s Register’s Structural Analysis and Hydrodynamics team which looks after research and development issues. My role is to look after the research programme for the development of hydrodynamic expertise and capabilities of Lloyd’s Register covering ship motions, hydroelasticity, sloshing, dynamic load application, etc. for all ship types. As such I support Lloyd’s Register’s Classification and Plan Approval offices worldwide on hydrodynamic related issues.
I joined Lloyd’s Register 16 years ago and have been one of the principal engineers on many projects including LR’s Naval Ship Rules, IACS Common Structural Rules for Tankers, IACS Harmonised Common Structural Rules for Oil Tankers and Bulk Carriers. I was the lead author of LR’s Sloshing Assessment Guidance Document and have been involved in many sloshing related studies and approval of all recent membrane tank LNG ships with respect to sloshing issues including the QFlex and the first QMax ships. I was also the lead author on the 2014 released whipping and springing assessment procedure for container ships.
Prior to Lloyd’s Register, I worked for Burness, Corlett and Partners in charge of their computational analysis group for 11 years. I graduated from the University of Southampton in 1978 with a Ship Science degree.
 

Not sure how relevant this will be to recent discusison as to use of big data in maritime sector but worth exploring maybe?

Making sense from data

The EPSRC Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Theme is inviting outline proposals that explore how to extract meaning from data.

Issue date: 28 October 2014

Closing date: 06 January 2015 at 16:00

Status: Open

Type: Invitation for outlines

Related themes: ICT, Mathematical sciences

http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/funding/calls/makingsensefromdata/

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