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Carlos Guedes Soares & Wolfgang Fricke

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Instituto Suerior Tcnico, University of Lisbon Lisbon, Portugal

Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg Hamburg, Germany

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Advances in marine structures

This special issue contains a selected number of papers that

were presented at the MARSTRUCT 2011 Conference and
were selected to be further reviewed and revised.
The Third International Conference on Marine Structures, MARSTRUCT 2011, was held in Hamburg, Germany, 2830 March. This conference follows up from the
initial ones that were held in Glasgow, Scotland and in Lisbon, Portugal, respectively, in 2007 and 2009. Despite the
availability of several conferences about ships and offshore
structures, it was felt that there was still no conference series specially dedicated to marine structures, which would
be the niche for these conferences. These conferences aim
at bringing together researchers and industrial participants
specially concerned with structural analysis and design of
marine structures.
The initial impetus and support has been given
by the Network of Excellence on Marine Structures
(MARSTRUCT), which was funded by the European Union
(EU) from 2005 to 2010, bringing together 33 European research groups from Universities, research institutions, classification societies and industrial companies that are dedicated to research in the area of marine structures. With the
end of this EU project, a new organisation was created to
maintain the cooperation ties among the groups that work
in this general area. The MARSTRUCT Virtual Institute
was created in 2010, with the aim of being an association
of research groups interested in cooperating in the field of
marine structures.
In particular the Virtual Institute will take the responsibility of organising the MARSTRUCT Conference biannually in different countries, starting from the present one
that is already organised in a cooperation between the
MARSTRUCT Virtual Institute and the Hamburg University of Technology in a scheme that is planned to be
continued in the future: the Virtual Institute will be re-


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sponsible for the preparation of the technical programme

and processing of the papers and the host country organisation will be responsible for the conference organisation
and management. Despite being organised in Europe, this
conference is not meant to be restricted to European attendees and a serious effort has been made to involve in
the planning of the conference participants from other continents that could ensure a wider participation, which is
happening.
The conference reflects the advances that have been
made in the last years within its domain including the full
range of methods and modelling procedures for the structural assessment of marine structures, which have been reported in the proceedings (Guedes Soares and Fricke 2011).
This special issue includes revised and expanded versions
of some of the papers presented at the conference.
Aspects like ultimate strength and fatigue strength
are addressed as well as impact strength and strength
of corroded structures. The specific problem of hullsuperstructure interaction in optimised passenger ships is
also addressed.
We hope that this selection of papers will provide an
indication of some of the relevant aspects that are related
with the analysis and design of ship structures.
Reference
Guedes Soares C, Fricke W, editors. 2011. Advances in marine
structures. London (UK): Taylor & Francis Group.

Carlos Guedes Soares

Instituto Suerior Tecnico, University of Lisbon
Lisbon, Portugal

Wolfgang Fricke
Institute for Ship Structural Design and Analysis
Hamburg University of Technology