Call for Papers

17 th AIAA Aerodynamic Decelerator Systems Technology Conference and Seminar


May 19-22, 2003
The Doubletree Hotel
Monterey, California

Conference & Seminar Information



Important Dates:

  • Submission of Abstracts
    June 1 - October 1, 2002

  • Notification of Acceptance
    November 17, 2002

  • Deadline for Submission of Manuscripts
    March 9, 2003

  • ADS Technology Seminar
    May 19, 2003

  • 17 th ADS Conference
    May 20-22, 2003

The Monterey Aquarium

Conference and Seminar Topics:

The AIAA ADS Technical Committee is actively seeking papers for our 17th Aerodynamic Decelerator Systems Technology Conference and Seminar, to be conducted in Monterey California on May 20-22, 2003.

Organized and sponsored by the AIAA Aerodynamic Decelerator Systems Technical Committee, the resulting forum will provide a venue for presentations and discussions focused on current and future research, development, testing, and applications of decelerator systems, subsystems, and their enabling technologies. Additionally addressed will be operational requirements, payload/application considerations, performance and evolutionary design considerations. The conference and seminar will incorporate both invited and solicited presentations that span the full range of decelerator systems and related topics, described in detail below.

Gathering the worlds leading experts, technologists, engineers, scientists and academia representatives in the decelerator field, the objective of this forum is to present recent advances in parachutes and aerodynamic decelerator system technologies, as well as to foster an environment for free exchange of information and technical interchange in our community.

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:

  • Precision Air Delivery: Structural dynamics, guidance, navigation and control, airdrop planning and CARP, wind field and environmental data processing.
  • Performance: Drag characteristics and stability, scaling, flow field considerations, pressure distributions, wake vortex considerations and flow control.
  • Applications: Decelerators for personnel, aircraft escape, unmanned aerial vehicles, landing systems, ejection seats, ordnance retardation, rocket payload booster, and reentry space vehicle capture, braking and 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 dis-reef devices, mortars, ejection seats, jettisonable capsules, tractor rockets, retrorockets, composite materials, and airbags.
  • Testing: Systems, components, ground and flight tests, facilities, instrumentation, data acquisition, and processing.
  • Aerodynamic Decelerator Systems Programs: Research, development, and testing within the entire international community, including program updates, new programs, completed programs, and lessons learned.
  • Materials and Manufacturing: New materials, weaving, material forming methods, sewing, coating, bonding, fabrication methods, facilities, automation, quality assurance, statistical process control, and economics.
  • Operations: Logistics, environmental considerations and effects, missions, life cycles, surveillance, aging, damage, maintenance, and repair, including life extension programs.
  • Information: Databases, storage, retrieval, technology transfer, networks, mission planning, education, and historical aspects.
  • Advanced Instrumentation and Testing: Trajectory estimation, practical applications, miniaturized sensor technologies, and RF sensor networks.
  • Modeling and Simulation: Applications, visual training systems, simulation environments, synthetic enhancers, media, co-located, collective full-mission training and affordability.
  • Computer Modeling: Advances in Structural Modeling Techniques, Computational Fluid Dynamics related to this field, and Fluid Structure Interaction Simulations.

Abstract Submittal

Drafts of papers or abstracts of at least 1000 words are invited. All papers and presentations will be in English and must be unclassified and cleared for presentation. Abstracts will be accepted electronically through AIAA's Web site address at http://www.aiaa.org. Simply click the "Submit a paper" button at the top of the AIAA home page and follow the instructions. The Web site will be open for abstract submittal starting June 01, 2002. The system will allow for file upload in the following formats: Word, WordPerfect, Text, RTF, and PDF. When submitting through the Web site, please be sure to designate to which technical area your paper correlates (i.e., Performance, Precision, Design, etc.).

Authors having trouble submitting abstracts electronically should e-mail AIAA technical support at: paper_tech_support@aiaa.org. Questions about the abstract submissions themselves, should be referred to the Technical Program Chair.

Abstracts will no longer be accepted after October 01, 2002. Authors of accepted papers will be mailed notification of acceptance and instructions by November 17, 2002. Authors of accepted papers will be expected to submit camera-ready manuscripts to AIAA headquarters for publication no later than March 9, 2003. Except by prior arrangement, only those papers submitted by this date will be presented at the conference (i.e. "no paper, no podium")

A "no paper, no podium" rule will be in effect for this conference; no author will be permitted to make a presentation at the conference if a written paper has not been submitted to AIAA Headquarters by the March 9, 2003 deadline. Prospective authors should keep this rule in mind when submitting their draft manuscripts.

Warning-Technology Transfer Considerations:
Prospective authors are reminded that technology transfer guidelines have extended considerably the time required for review of abstracts and completed papers by U.S. government agencies. Internal (company) plus external (government) reviews can consume 16 weeks or more. Government review, if required, is the responsibility of the author. Authors should determine the extent of approval necessary early in the paper preparation process to preclude paper withdrawals and late submissions.

Organizing Committee

General Chair
Tony Taylor
Director, Technology Development
Irvin Aerospace Inc
Phone: (714) 662-1400 x 119
E-Mail: Tony@Ca.IrvinGrp.com

Administrative Chair
Richard Howard
Associate Professor
Naval Postgraduate School
Phone: (831) 656-2870
E-Mail: RMHoward@nps.navy.mil

Technical Chair
Michael Accorsi
Professor
University of Connecticut
Phone: (860) 486-5642
E-mail: accorsi@engr.uconn.edu

Seminar Chair
Ken Heindel
Coleman Research Corporation
Phone: (407) 354-0047 x 2131
E-Mail:ken_heindel@mail.crc.com

Additional Information

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