Dear Colleagues,

Floating offshore structures play an important role in the exploitation of ocean resources. In recent years, the new concept of floating offshore structures has been proposed. Indeed, some of these structures have been designed, constructed, and deployed in deeper water, whether on the slopes of the continental shelves or island seabed bathymetry and in the hostile Arctic seas. This Special Issue aims to provide an overview of the latest research achievements in the scientific investigation and practical application of floating offshore structures, such as VLFS, seabed mining and offshore aquaculture structures. This will primarily involve the following four topics.   

We will consider advances in the descriptions of the ocean environment, especially with respect to wave, current and wind, in deep and shallow waters, and ice.

General requirements, interpretations and standards used in the design for safety, reliability and serviceability of the floating offshore structures purposes shall be discussed for different ocean space utilizations. Due consideration should be given to the uncertainties in established design methods and modelling techniques for non-conventional floating offshore structures.

(III) Theoretical model and numerical analyses
Advances in the environmental loads from waves, wind, current, ice, slamming, sloshing, green water, weight distribution shall be discussed. Focus should be given to fluid–structure interactiona induced by the large size, seabed bathymetry and structure flexibility. Due consideration should be given to the comparison of simpler and more refined theories, a process which will help to determine the dynamic responses for structures with connectors, mooring systems, etc.

Advances in experimental and full-scale measurement and in-service monitoring related to uncertainty analysis, experimental techniques, full-field imaging and sensor systems, big data applications and correlations between model, full-scale and numerical datasets will be covered.

Prof. Dr. Yousheng Wu
Dr. Chao Tian
Dr. Jun Ding
Guest Editors

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• hydroelasticity
• fluid–structure interaction
• multi-body hydrodynamics
• seabed bathymetry
• mooring system
• shallow water effect
• vortex-induced vibration
• fishing net hydrodynamics
• experimental methods
• full-scale measurement technique
• uncertainty analysis