Next year Krylov State Research Centre will host the next regular meeting of ITTC (the International Towing Tank Conference) Ocean Engineering Committee members. Apart from KSRC experts, the representatives of France, Norway, UK, Canada, Brazil, South Korea, China and Japan also serve on the committee. At the recent meeting in Tokyo it was decided to hold the next committee session in Saint Petersburg on June 6 — 10, 2016.
During such sessions the international experts define the procedures for various types of tests and experiments to be performed in test tanks of different countries setting the standards to be followed by all R&D organizations operating test facilities. Simultaneously approved procedures serve as a main guidemark for the Customers ordering different investigations.
In particular, during working meetings in Tokyo the Krylov State Research Centre represented by the Head of Hydro- and
The following issues to be discussed in details by Ocean Engineering Committee members in 2016 in Saint Petersburg are worth mentioning:
ITTC is a voluntary association dealing with unification and standardization of methods for prediction of hydrodynamic performance of vessels and marine structures. Over 100 centers from 30 countries form this association. Krylov State Research Centre has been the ITTC member for 60 years.
