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Call for Papers 16 th AIAA Aerodynamic Decelerator Systems Technology Conference and Seminar May 21-24, 2001 The Boston Park Plaza Hotel Boston, Massachusetts *Key Dates *Conference and Seminar Topics *Abstract Submittal *Organizing Committee *Conference and Seminar Information

• Deadline for Submission of Abstracts: October 1, 2000
• Notification of Acceptance: December 17, 2000
• Deadline for Submission of Manuscripts: March 9, 2001
• ADS Technology Seminar: May 21, 2001
• 16 ^th ADS Conference: May 22-24, 2001

Share your successes and lessons learned in the art of Aerodynamic Decelerator Systems research, development, and testing with the entire international community! The ADS Technical Committee is actively seeking papers for our 16^th Aerodynamic Decelerator Systems Seminar and Conference to be held in Boston, Massachusetts on May 21-24, 2001.

The goal of this forum is to present recent advances in parachutes and aerodynamic decelerator system technologies and to foster an environment for free exchange of information and technical interchange in our community. The conference is returning to the United States after an outstanding 1999 session in Toulouse, France.

Instrumentation and Sensor Technology is the subject of the one-day seminar scheduled for May 21, 2001. The seminar, presented by international speakers, will include the theoretical foundations and practical applications of topics such as trajectory estimation, miniaturized sensor technologies, and RF sensor networks.

The three-day conference will begin on May 22, 2001. Technical papers are solicited in all areas consistent with the stated purpose of the conference. These include progress, status, completion, and lessons-learned reports on any phase of the research, development, production and use of systems, subsystems, components, and materials. Appropriate subject areas for technical papers include, but are not limited to:

• Technology: aerodynamics, dynamics, guidance and control, structural analysis, and material science.
• Applications: decelerators for personnel, aircraft escape, remotely piloted vehicles, landing systems, ejection seats, ordnance retardation, rocket payload booster, and reentry vehicle recovery.
• Design: Ballistic and gliding parachutes, clusters, para-gliders, inflatable structures, airbags, ballutes, packing methods, deployment systems, reefing and staging methods, components, and material specifications.
• Hardware: attachment structures, release and disreef devices, mortars, ejection seats, jettisonable capsules, tractor rockets, retrorockets, and airbags.
• Development: program planning and management, contract management, quality, configuration and interface control, successes, lessons learned, and redesigns.
• Testing: systems, components, ground and flight tests, facilities, instrumentation, data acquisition, and processing.
• Materials and Manufacturing: new materials, weaving, material forming methods, sewing, bonding, fabrication methods, facilities, automation, quality assurance, statistical process control, and economics.
• Operations: logistics, life cycles, surveillance, aging, damage, and repair.
• Information: databases, storage, retrieval, technology transfer, education, and historical aspects.

Drafts of papers or abstracts of at least 1000 words are invited. The professional affiliation, mailing address, telephone number, fax number, and e-mail address for each author must be included with the submittal. All papers and presentations will be in English and must be unclassified and cleared for presentation.

Abstracts may be submitted on-line or by mail. On-line submittal is strongly preferred.

Submit Abstract On-Line
Follow the steps to submit your abstract using the AIAA Abstract Submission System.
You can submit your abstract in the following formats: Word, WordPerfect, Text, RTF, and PDF.

Submit Abstract by Mail
Professor Michael Accorsi
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-2037
Tel: (860) 486-5642
Fax: (860) 486-2298
E-mail: accorsi@engr.uconn.edu

If submitting by mail, please use the abstract submittal form and instructions given in Aerospace America and send three copies of the draft paper or abstract, together with the abstract submittal form available from AIAA.

Abstracts are due no later than October 01, 2000. Authors of accepted papers will be mailed notification of acceptance and instructions by December 17, 2000. Authors of accepted papers will be expected to submit camera-ready manuscripts to AIAA headquarters for publication no later than March 9, 2001. Except by prior arrangement, only those papers submitted by this date will be presented at the conference (i.e. "no paper, no podium").

Inquiries concerning the administrative arrangements for the conference should be directed to the administrative chairmain:

Mr. Timothy Lott
TEXTRON Systems
201 Lowel Street
Wilmington, MA 01887
Phone: 978-657-2350
Fax: 978-657-1585
E-mail: tlott@systems.textron.com

Inquiries concerning the seminar should be
directed to the seminar chairmain:

Mr. Robert Meyerson
Kistler Aerospace Corporation
3760 Carillon Point
Kirkland, WA 98033
Phone: 425-602-0228
Fax: 425-803-3303
E-mail:meyerson@kistleraero.com

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