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Wiggins Promoted At Palmetto Stevedoring Robert C. Jacobi, executive vice president, Palmetto Shipping and Stevedoring Company Inc., Charleston, S.C., has announced the promotion of Leroy C. Wig- gins Jr. from stevedoring foreman to headquarters stevedore super- intendent. In his new position, Mr. Wiggins will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and super- vising stevedoring operations in Charleston S.C., and Savannah, Ga. Mr. Wiggins, a Charleston na- tive, served six years in the Army Reserve and joined Palmetto in 1981, bringing with him 13 years of valuable experience in the stev- edoring industry. The Marine Board Of The National Research Council Plans November Symposium Plans for the international De- sign-Inspection-Redundancy Sym- posium on November 14—16, 1983, at the Fort Magruder Inn and Conference Center in Williams- burg, Va., are nearing completion. The symposium will be sponsored by the interagency Ship Structure Committee, whose member agen- cies are: the U.S. Coast Guard, the Naval Sea Systems Command, the Military Sealift Command, the Maritime Administration, the American Bureau of Shipping, and the Minerals Management Service. The purpose of this symposium is to examine the emerging tech- nologies of ultimate strength and failure mode analysis, as applica- ble to marine structural systems, and to delineate the most pressing problems. Twenty-three technical papers comprise the technical pro- gram that emphasizes the role of design, inspection, and redun- dancy in marine structural reliability: (1) The Design-Inspection-Re- dundancy Triangle; (2) Interrela- tion Between Design, Inspection and Redundancy in Marine Struc- tures; (3) Structural Design of Mono Hull Ships; (4) Application of Subjective Reliability Analysis to the Evaluation of Inspection Procedure on Ship Structures; (5) Structural Redundancy and Dam- age Tolerance In Relation to Ulti- mate Ship-Hull Strength; (6) Strategies for Assessing Design and Inspection Requirements for Redundant Structures; (7) Fixed Offshore Platforms Design Consid- erations; (8) Reserve and Residual Strength of Pile-Founded Offshore Platforms; (9) Offshore Platform Inspection; (10) Design-Inspection- Redundancy Investment vs. Risk for Pile Founded Offshore Structures. 26 At 430,000 lb. minimum breakstrength, this 2'/2-inch diameter rope ofKEVLAR is comparable to steel in strength and elongation, and it won't rust Also, (11) Design and Floating Offshore Platforms; (12) Inspec- tion of Floating Offshore Plat- forms; (13) Redundancy Consider- ations in the Structural Design of Floating Offshore Platforms; (14) Synthesis—Floating Offshore Platforms—Problems and Pre- scriptions, from Design to Inspec- tion; (15) Safety Evaluation of Buildings and Bridges; (16) Design Inspection and Redundancy of Pressure Vessels; (17) Integration of Design, Fabrication, and Inspec- tion Procedures for Attaining and Maintaining Safe Submersible Pressure Hull Structure; (18) De- sign and Inspection Interrelation for Commercial Jet Transport Structure; (19) Design, Fabrica- tion, Inspection and Redundancy Aspects of the Landing Craft Air Cushion Structure; (20) Research Needs for Marine Structures; (21) A Government Perspective on the Safety of Marine Structures; (22) The USAF Approach to Structural Life Management; and (23) Civil Engineering Applications of the Theory of Structural Reliability. For free information on the sym- posium, write Committee on Ma- rine Structures, Marine Board, National Research Council, 2101 Constitution Avenue, N.W., Wash- ington, D.C. 20418. Ropes of Kevlar offei at Vs the weight topside