Marine Systems

Introduction

Marine environment is one of the most challenging and designing systems to survive in the harsh conditions is very demanding and requires knowledge of many fields of engineering. Recent advances in the field of Marine Technology increased requirements of works to be carried out under water. Even simple tasks are difficult and require great efforts and ingenuity in the marine/alien under water environment. It is very appropriately said that towards the later parts of the present century, the human survival will depend on the unexplored oceans and consequently, exploitation of living and nonliving marine resources shall have greater significance in the coming years. It is difficult to predict today how the resources of the oceans will be exploited in the future, but design, construction, operation of systems throw many unknown engineering challenges. Such developments will have to be supported by a better understanding of the mechanics of the environment, hydrodynamic loading on structural systems, resulting responses, material behaviour under high pressure and other several unknown aspects

There are isolated efforts in our country for developing Marine systems but in practice there is an over dependence on imported technology giving rise to major concerns including security. If the present trend continues, the whole nation will be vulnerable and totally unprepared for meeting the challenges of the oceans. There are many issues to be addressed. Path breaking research and development efforts are required in the areas of Under Water Sensors, Control Systems, subsystems for U/W Vehicles; remotely operated and autonomous, moorings, dynamic positioning, Navigation, inertial systems, etc. Being interdisciplinary in character, groups of researchers have to be identified and brought together for synergy. Though the areas identified are not exhaustive, research efforts to develop Marine systems are the pressing need of the hour.

The panel on “Marine Systems” is required to address some of these issues projects, which will have direct impact on developing Marine Engineering Systems. In tune with the objectives of the NRB, the projects shall be for interdisciplinary research for the development of systems and not for development of systems.

Panel Member

Prof. V G Idichandy
Professor

4 (new) Dr. Vasudave Nagar, South Avenue,
Tiruvanmiyur, Chennai-600041

Tel. No. : 044-24481864
Mob No. : 9962514000
E-mail : chandy[dot]vgi[at]gmail[dot]com, 01769[at]reriree[dot]iitm[dot]ac[dot]in

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