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Preface	p. ix
Committees	p. xi
Wave loads
Long-term prediction of combined wave and whipping bending moments of containership	p. 3
Semi-empirical assessment of long-term high-frequency hull girder response of containerships-an update	p. 11
Numerical studies on deepwater dry tree semisubmersible	p. 19
Numerical simulation of structural response under bow flare slamming load	p. 25
Vibrations
Vibrations of superyacht structures: Comfort rules and predictive calculations	p. 37
Noise on board RO-Pax vessels: Measured levels on existing ships and new pre-normative requirements	p. 45
An analytical method for cabin deck fundamental frequency	p. 53
The use of seismic isolation with the method of finite element to reduce vibrations caused by the earthquake in the offshore platform	p. 61
On the non-linear hydroelastic response in irregular head waves of a structural optimized container ship	p. 67
Simplified formulations of mass and geometric stiffness matrices in vibration and stability analyses of thin-walled structures	p. 79
Response to accidental loads
Numerical analysis of warship's structural panel subjected to airblast and underwater explosions	p. 91
Behavior of stiffened panels exposed to fire	p. 101
Structures on ice
Cost optimization for ice-loaded structures	p. 111
Measured ice loads and design ice loads	p. 119
L-year maximum values of local ice loads on ship hulls	p. 125
Impact and collision
A new super-element for estimating the collision resistance of an inclined ship side	p. 137
Damage of ships for engine room section struck by bulbous bow	p. 147
Modeling aspects of strength capacity of intact and damaged ship girders	p. 157
Failure characteristics of strength-equivalent aluminium and steel plates in impact conditions	p. 167
Shear and tensile failure of thin aluminium plates struck by cylindrical and spherical indenters	p. 175
Material modeling for finite-element simulation of ship impacts	p. 187
Experimental and numerical investigations of an alternative stiffening system for ship side structures to increase collision safety	p. 199
Hydraulic modelling of submerged oil spill including tanker hydrostatic overpressure	p. 209
Plastic mechanism analysis of structural performances for stiffeners on bottom floor plating during shoal grounding accident	p. 219
Fatigue strength
Stress intensity factor analysis using digital image correlation: A post-processing approach	p. 233
Realistic fatigue life prediction of weld toe and weld root failure in load-carrying cruciform joints by crack propagation analysis	p. 241
Fatigue strength of laser-welded thin plate ship structures based on nominal and structural hot-spot stress approach	p. 249
Influence of surface integrity on the fatigue strength of high strength steel in balcony openings of cruise ship structures	p. 255
Numerical study of stress concentration factors in damaged FPSO side panels under in-plane compression loads	p. 263
Implementation of fatigue properties of laser welds into classification rules	p. 273
A FE based numerical tool for crack assessment in ship structures employing the CSR loading scheme	p. 281
Ultimate strength
Design of Y stiffened panels in double hull tanker under axial compressive loads	p. 291
Nonlinear buckling behavior of stiffened ship panels	p. 301
Finite element modelling of the ultimate strength of stiffened plates with residual stresses	p. 309
Elastic buckling and elasto-plastic collapse behaviors with torsion of a longitudinal stiffener under axial compression	p. 319
Ultimate strength of river-sea container ships	p. 329
Experimental analysis
Experiments on three mild steel box girders of different spans under pure bending moment	p. 337
Scale model tests for the post-ultimate strength collapse behavior of a ship's hull girder under whipping loads	p. 347
Solutions to improve accuracy in experimental measurement of the dynamic response of resilient mountings for marine diesel engines	p. 355
Composite structures
Numerical analysis of cracked marine structures repaired with composite patches	p. 367
Hybrid composite and metallic hulls, the best of both worlds	p. 377
Buckling studies on ship hull imperfect composite plates	p. 383
Calibration of a finite element composite delamination model by experiments	p. 389
Comparison of load-carrying behavior between web-core sandwich, stiffened and isotropic plate	p. 397
An experimental and numerical study of corroded steel plates repaired with composite patches	p. 405
On the scope of using composites as major structural parts of large commercial ships	p. 413
Weld simulation
Simulation of the weld overlay procedure for corrosion repair of pressure vessels	p. 423
A study on computational fluid dynamics simulation of friction stir welding	p. 433
Experimental investigation of welding deformations of hybrid structural joint	p. 441
Welding residual stress and its effect on fatigue crack propagation after overloading	p. 447
Structural analysis
Equivalent shell element for ship structural design	p. 459
Thermal and strength analysis of LNG tanks and their supporting structures in the early design stage	p. 469
Shear response of prismatic passenger ship hull-girders	p. 477
Linear and nonlinear FE analyses of a container vessel in harsh sea state	p. 485
Structural design
Revisit of a 1970s semi-submersible pipe layer	p. 497
A new generation of offshore structures	p. 507
Multi-objective optimisation of ship hull structure by genetic algorithm with combined fitness function	p. 515
Optimization of structural design to minimize lifetime maintenance cost of a naval vessel	p. 525
Structural reliability and risk models
Hull girder reliability assessment of FPSO	p. 535
A study on random field model for representation of corroded surface	p. 545
Lifecycle structural optimization of mid-ship of double hull tanker based on holistic risk evaluation	p. 555
Probabilistic pit depth corrosion model of subsea gas pipeline	p. 565
Renewable energy devices
Structural design of a floating foundation for offshore wind turbines in red sea	p. 575
Performance of tethered floating breakwater supporting small scale wind turbine of 750 kw	p. 585
Author index	p. 591