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Sepcial Issue: Safety of slender composite flexible structures in ocean engineering
The ocean is rich in non-renewable resources such as oil, natural gas, and minerals, which lay solid foundation for the sustainable development of human society. The exploitation of Marine resources is inseparable from various kinds of slender composite flexible structures, such as umbilical cables, wind-power dynamic cables, bonded/non-bonded oil pipelines, deep-sea mining pipelines, LNG cryogenic hose, etc. The relevant structures are complex and expensive. Compared with the structures on land, they experience much harsher environmental conditions, and are subjected to a variety of random loads that change with time and space, including the combined action of environmental loads caused by wind, waves, ocean currents, tides, etc., and they are also threatened by sudden extreme events such as typhoons, earthquakes, and even explosions. In such circumstances, adverse factors such as nonlinear hydrodynamic behavior, fluid-to-solid coupling, complex loads on components, friction between layers, mechanical damage, material aging, machining and manufacturing defects, corrosion, marine organism attachment, and damage accumulation due to fatigue and crack propagation may lead to the performance degradation of the components and even the overall structure, affecting the safety and durability of slender composite flexible structures in ocean engineering. Structural failure not only causes huge economic losses, but also leads to serious environmental pollution and negative social impacts. Therefore, it is of great theoretical and practical significance to carry out safety analysis, design analysis, and manufacturing, test, operation and maintenance of the slender composite flexible structures in ocean engineering.
Topics included but not limited to:
Failure mechanism of slender composite flexible structures
Design of slender composite flexible structure
Fluid-solid coupling characteristics of slender composite flexible structures
Contact boundary effects of slender composite flexible structures
Hydrodynamic analysis for global configuration and of slender composite flexible structures
Fatigue damage of slender composite flexible structures
Manufacturing technology of slender composite flexible structures
Monitoring and testing of slender composite flexible structures
Operation, maintenance and emergency repair of slender composite flexible structures
Applications of digital twin model and AI technology in slender composite flexible structures
Installation behavior of slender composite flexible structures in ocean engineering
Damage evaluation of slender composite flexible structures in ocean engineering
Editors
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Yang Zhixun
Professor/Doctoral Supervisor, Harbin Engineering University
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Murilo Augusto Vaz
Professor/Doctoral Supervisor, Editorial board member in Marine Structures, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Zhang Yu
Professor/Doctoral Supervisor, Recipient of National Outstanding Youth Fund, China University of Petroleum, Beijing
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Zhu Hongjun
Professor/Doctoral Supervisor, Young Yangtze River Scholar, Southwest Petroleum University
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Xu Wanhai
Professor/Doctoral Supervisor, Tianjin University
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Fu Guangming
Professor/Doctoral Supervisor, China University of Petroleum (East China)
