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COPRI Announces 2009 ASCE OTC Hall of Fame Winners

For the fourth year, COPRI will honor the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) papers that set the standard for current practices worldwide and have become an integral part of the offshore design process as well as lending themselves to other civil engineering disciplines.

Since its inception nearly 40 years ago, the OTC has provided the industry with outstanding papers that have shaped our world. Many of these papers offer innovation, vision, direction and lasting impact on design, construction or installation within the offshore industry. Since 2006, COPRI and ASCE have honored those papers at the Hall of Fame Gala Dinner. This year, seven papers will be inducted into the ASCE OTC Hall of Fame. Authors will be recognized at the dinner May 5 at the Petroleum Club in Houston, TX. A commemorative edition featuring the 2009 honored papers will be published by ASCE.  The book will be available at the Gala and for sale by ASCE in May.

Registration for this prestigious event may be made online at www.coprinstitute.org/HallofFame2009 no later than April 25, 2009. Sponsorhips opportunities are still available. 

This year's honored papers are:

• Movement and Forces Developed by Wave Induced Slides in Soft Clay, by R.G. Bea and P. Arnold.

• Development of Method for Measuring Susceptibility of Steel Plate to Lamellar Tearing, by G. Wold and T. Kristoffersen.

• Dynamic Response of Floating Bodies, by C. J. Garrison.

• Behavior of Soft Clay Under Earthquake Loading Conditions, by I.M. Idriss, R. Dobry, E.H. Doyle, and R.D. Singh.

• Storm Wave Kinematics, by G.Z. Forristall, E.G. Ward, L.E. Borgman, and V.J. Cardone.

• Critical State Soil Mechanics Model of Soil Consolidation, by T.W. Miller, J.D. Murff and L.M. Kraft.

• Test of Wave Hindcast Model Results Against Measurements During Four Different Meterological Conditions, by A.M. Reece and V.J. Cardone.