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EDITORIAL

Advances in marine structures

This special issue contains a selected number of papers thatwere presented at the MARSTRUCT 2011 Conference andwere selected to be further reviewed and revised.

The Third International Conference on Marine Struc-tures, MARSTRUCT 2011, was held in Hamburg, Ger-many, 28–30 March. This conference follows up from theinitial ones that were held in Glasgow, Scotland and in Lis-bon, Portugal, respectively, in 2007 and 2009. Despite theavailability of several conferences about ships and offshorestructures, it was felt that there was still no conference se-ries specially dedicated to marine structures, which wouldbe the niche for these conferences. These conferences aimat bringing together researchers and industrial participantsspecially concerned with structural analysis and design ofmarine structures.

The initial impetus and support has been givenby the Network of Excellence on Marine Structures(MARSTRUCT), which was funded by the European Union(EU) from 2005 to 2010, bringing together 33 European re-search groups from Universities, research institutions, clas-sification societies and industrial companies that are dedi-cated to research in the area of marine structures. With theend of this EU project, a new organisation was created tomaintain the cooperation ties among the groups that workin this general area. The MARSTRUCT Virtual Institutewas created in 2010, with the aim of being an associationof research groups interested in cooperating in the field ofmarine structures.

In particular the Virtual Institute will take the responsi-bility of organising the MARSTRUCT Conference biannu-ally in different countries, starting from the present onethat is already organised in a cooperation between theMARSTRUCT Virtual Institute and the Hamburg Uni-versity of Technology in a scheme that is planned to becontinued in the future: the Virtual Institute will be re-

sponsible for the preparation of the technical programmeand processing of the papers and the host country organi-sation will be responsible for the conference organisationand management. Despite being organised in Europe, thisconference is not meant to be restricted to European at-tendees and a serious effort has been made to involve inthe planning of the conference participants from other con-tinents that could ensure a wider participation, which ishappening.

The conference reflects the advances that have beenmade in the last years within its domain including the fullrange of methods and modelling procedures for the struc-tural assessment of marine structures, which have been re-ported in the proceedings (Guedes Soares and Fricke 2011).This special issue includes revised and expanded versionsof some of the papers presented at the conference.

Aspects like ultimate strength and fatigue strengthare addressed as well as impact strength and strengthof corroded structures. The specific problem of hull-superstructure interaction in optimised passenger ships isalso addressed.

We hope that this selection of papers will provide anindication of some of the relevant aspects that are relatedwith the analysis and design of ship structures.

ReferenceGuedes Soares C, Fricke W, editors. 2011. Advances in marine

structures. London (UK): Taylor & Francis Group.

Carlos Guedes SoaresInstituto Suerior Tecnico, University of Lisbon

Lisbon, PortugalWolfgang Fricke

Institute for Ship Structural Design and AnalysisHamburg University of Technology

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