Research on Scour and Protection of Offshore Structures
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Oceans and Coastal Zones".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2022) | Viewed by 2035
Special Issue Editors
Interests: scour mechanism; scour protection; scour monitoring; offshore wind power foundation; subsea pipeline; offshore structures
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Interests: offshore pile foundation; geotechnical earthquake engineering; soft soil engineering; deep-water foundation; scour and erosion
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Scour of sediments around offshore structures by wave currents is the most important factor contributing to the failure of offshore structures. Scour of offshore structures leads to human fatalities and economic losses every year. Most of the research on scour mechanisms has been carried out for current and sediment environments. However, the seabed soil is constantly liquefied and re-consolidated in the complex marine environment, resulting in continuous changes in the properties of the seabed soil. In the previous scour studies, fewer studies involved the properties of the seabed soil. Moreover, in complex hydrodynamic and soil environments, the traditional scour protections have various drawbacks and cannot be effective for a long time. Therefore, revealing the scouring mechanism under the coupling of seabed soil, sediment, and wave–current are crucial for the design and protection of offshore structures.
In this Special Issue, we invite submissions of research on scour mechanisms and scour protection methods for offshore hydraulic structures, in order to solve the scour problems under the complex water–solid–soil interaction and to develop effective scour protection methods. This Special Issue will cover research on scour macroscopic mechanisms, scour protection methods, scour model tests, and numerical simulations of scour for offshore structures. As well as new findings, new methods, new tools, or improved models for other studies of water–soil systems in the ocean are welcome.
Prof. Dr. Xuguang Chen
Prof. Dr. Fayun Liang
Prof. Dr. Dawei Guan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- scour mechanism
- scour protection
- scour test
- offshore wind power
- offshore structures
- subsea pipeline
