Marine Structural Design

Dr. Yong Bai holds the position of Chair Professor at Zhejiang University (China) and is also an academician at the Norwegian Academy of Technical Sciences. He is a fellow of the US Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers and the UK Royal Institution of Naval Architects. With an extensive background in offshore engineering structures and pipelines, Prof. Bai has held professorships at renowned universities, significantly contributing to the global offshore oil and gas industry through his publications and innovative achievements. Fellow of the Institute of Civil Engineers (ICE) and an honorary professor in Queen's University, UK. His research interest includes structural reliability, durability of reinforced concrete structure, health monitoring of concrete structures, and fundamental theories of concrete structures and their applications. He founded the group on Durability of Concrete Structures in 1995 at Zhejiang University, which carries out research on the durability problems regarding environments, materials, concrete components and structures. He has been awarded 20 research grants by the Chinese government and has published more than 200 articles, co-authored 9 monographs. He also won 3 National Awards for Science and Technology Progress and 5 Science & Technology Awards of Zhejiang Province. Prof. Jin previously held research fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Norwegian Council of Research.

• Part I: Structural Design Principles1. Introduction2. Wave loads for ship design and classification3. Loads and dynamic response for offshore structures4. Scantling of ship's hulls by rules5. Ship hull scantling by analysis 6. Offshore structural analysis7. Limit-state design of offshore structuresPart II: Ultimate Strength8. Buckling/collapse of columns and beam-columns9. Buckling and local buckling of tubular members10. Ultimate strength of plates and stiffened plates11. Ultimate strength of cylindrical shells12. A theory of nonlinear finite element analysis13. Collapse analysis of ship hulls14. Offshore structures under impact loads15. Offshore structures under earthquake loadsPart III: Fatigue and Fracture16. Mechanism of fatigue and fracture17. Fatigue capacity18. Fatigue loading and stresses19. Simplified fatigue assessment20. Spectral fatigue analysis and design21. Application of fracture mechanics22. Material selections and damage to tolerance criteriaPart IV: Structural Reliability23. Basics of structural reliability 24. Random variables and uncertainty analysis25. Reliability of ship structures26. Reliability-based design and code calibration27. Fatigue reliability28. Probability and risk based inspection planningPart V: Risk Assessment29. Risk assessment methodology30. Risk assessment applied to offshore structures31. Formal safety assessment applied to the shipping industry32. Economic risk assessment for field development33. Human reliability assessment34. Risk centered maintenance