69TH SHOCK AND VIBRATION SYMPOSIUM CALL FOR PAPERS The 69th Shock and Vibration Symposium will be held October 12-16, 1998 at the Radisson Hotel St. Paul in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota. United Defense has agreed to be the commercial sponsor and the Naval Surface Warfare Center will be the government sponsor. Registration and other information about the Symposium will be appearing in coming issues of the Current Awareness newsletter, as well as on the SAVIAC website: http://saviac.xservices.com. The Shock and Vibration Symposium is the oldest continuously held meeting dealing specifically with the structural dynamic behavior of air, sea, space, and ground vehicles and structures. The Symposium was established as a mechanism for the exchange of information among Government activities, private industry, and academia on current work and new developments. Presentations in any of the following subject areas are welcomed: Active Vibration Control; Ballistic Shock; Biodynamics; Blast Design and Protection; Computational Structural Dynamics; Crash Dynamics; Damage Identification; Dynamic Analysis Methods; Dynamic Measurement; Dynamic Scale Modeling; Dynamic Testing; Shock and Vibration Environmental Databases; Finite Element Analysis; Fluid-Structure Interaction; Ground Shock; Seismic Shock; Impact/Penetration Mechanics; Isolation Systems; Live Fire Testing; Machinery Diagnostics and Vibration; Material Dynamic Properties; Modal Analysis and Testing; Pyrotechnic Shock; Shock Characterization, Hardening, and Simulation Methods; Shock and Vibration Specifications and Standards; Underwater Shock Testing; and Vibroacoustics. Presentations on works in progress are encouraged. Separate sessions are held for presentation of classified or limited-distribution material. Two categories of presentations will be accepted: full papers (to be published in the Symposium Proceedings); and short discussion topics, consisting of viewgraphs with no written paper. Full papers will have a 15 minute technical presentation time plus 5 minutes for questions, while short discussiontopics will have a 10 minute presentation time with no question period. Presentations will be accepted on the basis of their abstracts which must be submitted by May 4, 1998. The Program Committee will review the abstracts during the first week of June and authors will be notified of acceptance by June 30, 1998. The full paper presentations must meet the following standards: they must be previously unpublished and unpresented; must be appropriate to community interests and must not be overtly commercial, except for papers in the Product Announcement/Facility Description session. Standards for short discussion topics are similar except that they may include previously presented or published material. The Symposium Proceedings will again be published only on CD-ROM. Papers to be included in the Proceedings are due December 15, 1998. An abstract submittal form will soon be available both in this newsletter and via the SAVIAC website. WEB: CLick here for information about SAVIAC, http://saviac.xservices.com. E-MAIL: Click here to contact the program manager, leifer_joel@bah.com.

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