The Gold medal Award

摘要

Mr. Beach has for many years been a pioneer in the development and application of reliability-based design technology beginning with the establishment of fatigue design criteria and methods for naval ships, which were used in the design of the HSLA-80 DDG51, the SWATH hull forms T-AGOS19 and T-AGOS23, and the HY-100 Sea Shadow. The development of structural reliability technology under his leader- Ship has now been extended to include quantified risks of failure for Various potential mechanisms and the assessment of progressive Damage. It will form the basis of a new Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) Methodology for Naval Ships.