List of themes included in the RS Plan for Research and Development Works for 2024:

Containers

1. Development of new requirements (during design, manufacture and in service) for refrigerating and/or heating appliances applied in containers

Materials and Welding

2. Development of requirements for assessment of anticorrosive protection, methods and assessment criteria of its performance to add a distinguishing mark UWILD or UWILD-S to the class notation

Technology of LNG Transportation and Containment

3. Development of draft RS requirements for tanks intended for storage and transportation of liquefied hydrogen

4. Development of RS guidelines on application of numerical methods for fluid and gas flow dynamics (CFD) to determine liquefied natural gas vaporization rate in a tank

5. Development of guidelines on analysis of thermal stresses in ship cryogenic pipelines and pipelines exposed to high temperature

Offshore Oil-and-Gas Installations

6. Development of requirements for safe laying of steel subsea pipelines by pipe laying vessels equipped with position mooring system affected by wind and current

Optimization of design documentation review process

7. Development of a concept to approve the design documentation upon review results of a 3D CAD model submitted by the designer