The Royal Institution of Naval Architects
WARSHIP 2008: NAVAL SUBMARINES 9
10-11 June 2008, Glasgow, UK.
Second Notice
This conference, the 28th in RINA’s successful Warship series, will look at ‘Naval Submarines’.
Submarines are among the most complex of engineering products, comparable in complexity with
aerospace projects such as the space shuttle. To design, manufacture and support them in service
requires a sophisticated industrial base and the willingness to incur the long term cost of ownership.
Submarines used by the world’s major navies have evolved for ‘blue water’ warfare, in a period when
cost was effectively secondary to capability. In this arena, the submarines themselves and their
supporting industrial base are well developed, to the point where further change to their overall
architecture is limited to incremental or evolutionary development.
This situation is now being challenged, both by the desire to reduce the cost of ownership and
by a change of emphasis from ‘blue water’ to littoral warfare. Submarines are now required to
accommodate roles which may change substantially during their service lives, and to undergo
continuous updating while minimising the time spent in refit and hence unavailable for service. These
changes affect the submarine throughout its lifecycle and the design not only of the submarine but
the organisations involved with it.
Paper will cover all aspects of the design, construction and operation of Naval Submarines, including
the following topics:
• Future Submarine requirements and their strategic context.
• Affordable, available and adaptive submarines.
• Management of submarine design information and maintenance of design intent.
• Design and construction, design analysis methods, structural efficient configurations, inspections
techniques and design / quality assurance.
• Novel materials; their underwater application.
• Painting and preservation; assuring through-life integrity of submarine structures.
• External installation of weapon delivery systems, towed sensors and communications systems.
• Submarine power, propulsion systems and signature management.
• Operating unmanned underwater vehicles from submarines.
• Submarine escape and rescue.
• Assuring submarine safety.
In conjunction with:
• The environmental impact of submarines.
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