Technical Tracks

70th Annual International Conference on Mass Properties Engineering
Houston, Texas
May 14-19, 2011
Hilton Houston WestChase Hotel

 

Robert J. Hundl
VP - Technical Director
The Boeing Company

Since its inception in 1939, the purpose of the SAWE has been to promote the exchange of technical information and new ideas in Mass Properties Engineering. The SAWE International Conference is the annual meeting that brings together mass properties professionals from throughout the world. These dedicated men and women work in close cooperation with, and address the needs of, industry, government, and other engineering and manufacturing organizations. The 2011 Technical Tracks are a result of input from these mass properties professionals with the combined efforts of the International Officers, the 2011 conference committee, and the Technical Committee.

We, as engineering professionals, again have the opportunity to learn firsthand about important initiatives, research, and the latest developments in our discipline through specialized technical tracks and discussions. Since ours is a community of practicing engineers as well as a unique engineering discipline, this interchange is a special opportunity for all of those who participate. We especially encourage young engineers to take the opportunity to learn directly from more experienced peers and colleagues. This conference is a forum for individual presentations and panel discussions on applied mass properties technology for the design; manufacturing; testing; and utilization of air, land, sea, and space vehicles and their associated systems/ subsystems.

The first and third days of the conference will consist of eight different technical discussion tracks. The supplier exposition again offers all attendees the opportunity to view new products, technology, and processes firsthand. This conference is the only one of its kind in the industry and always provides the opportunity for broadened personal contact with other members of the profession and leaders in industry and government(s).

Projected Technical Papers:

3520 New Automatic Program for Ditching Analysis
- Avi Ben-Shall, IAI
3521 Mass Properties and Automotive Vertical Acceleration
- Brian Weigand, Retired
3522 International Weight Control Standard for the Offshore Oil & Gas Industry
- Dave Bennett, Worley Parsons
3523 A Development of the Estimation Model of KUH Fuel CG by Application of the Response Surface Model
- Kanghood Lee, Korea Aerospace Industries
3524 Aerostatic Spherical Bearing
- Arun Kumar S, ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangalore, Govt. of India 
3525 Mass Properties Integration: The United States Shuttle System 2011
- Clinton Stephenson, The Boeing Company - Space Exloration 
3527 Submarine Asymmetric Margin Selection
- David Tellet, US Naval Sea Systems Command 
3528 Mass Properties and Automotive Lateral Acceleration
- Brian Weigand, Retired 
3529 An Approach Towards Estimating and Validating Ship Stowage and Stowage Content Weight
- William Boze, Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc 
3530 Distributed Mass Properties Comparison
- James Smith, Gulfstream Serospace Corporation 
3531 Weight Data Management for Completion of Corporate Jets
- Ragaa Mitry, Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation 
3532 Professional Development Education Requirements and Their Role in the SAWE
- Anthony Primozich, SAWE Deputy Vice President - Training, Dayton,Ohio
3533 Curious Questions (and answers) Regarding Weighing of Commercial Transport Aircraft
- Ed Davis, The Boeing Company
3534 Mass Properties Requirements for Marine Design Software
- Alan Titcomb, Keith Carter, Ronnie Moore, Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc
3535 Innovative Design with Bi-Level Topology Optimization
- Alain Remouchamps, Michael Bruyneel - SAMTECH sa, Belgium - Stephane Grihon, Airbus, France - Claude Fleury, University of Leige, Belgium
3536 Horizontal Tail Plane Weight Drivers Analysis in Preliminary Aircraft Design
-Ruben Gonzalez, Airbus
3537 Theoretical Assessment of Inertia Tensor Measurement Accuracy Part 1: Problem Definition and Basic Analysis
-Giorgio Previati, Giampiro Mastinu, Massimiliano Gobbi, Politecnico di Milano, Department of Mechnical Engineering, Milano, Italy
3538 Theoretical Assessment of Inertia Tensor Measurement Accuracy Part 2: General Case
-Giorgio Previati, Giampiro Mastinu, Massimiliano Gobbi, Politecnico di Milano, Department of Mechnical Engineering, Milano, Italy
Pres Advanced Composites – Design and Manufacture of Tubular Products And Oil and Gas Production Applications
- Dr. James C.Leslie, Advanced Composite Products and Technology 
Pres Weight Reduction of an Offshore Wave Energy Generator
- Rick Watkins, Altair Engineering
Pres Ballasting Semi-Submersibles by using Systems of Equations
- Adam Richards, SBM Atlantia