Ships and Offshore Structures is a well-established international, peer-reviewed journal, which provides an authoritative forum for publication and discussion of recent advances and future trends in all aspects of science, technology and engineering across the maritime industry.
The Journal covers both ships (including merchant ships, war ships, submarines and polar ships) and offshore structures (floating and fixed offshore platforms, offshore infrastructure, underwater vehicles and subsea facilities) with a strong emphasis on practical design, construction, operation and decommissioning. Safety, reliability, performance, and cost efficiency are among the aspects of interest.
Specific areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Maritime legislations, standards, recommended practices and education
- Initial planning, concept design and contracting
- Zero emission and decarbonisation
- Multidisciplinary design optimisation (e.g., fluid-structure interaction and stability-crashworthiness interaction)
- Large database and data-centric engineering (e.g., in-situ measurements of site-specific metocean data and in-service damage data)
- Hydrodynamics and propulsion
- Structures and materials
- Limit states (e.g., ultimate limit states, serviceability limit states, fatigue limit states and accidental limit states)
- Vibration and noise
- Intact/damage stability and accidental flooding
- Machinery and marine engineering
- Ocean and environmental engineering
- Renewable energy and technology
- Safety design and engineering with extreme conditions and accidents
- Quantitative risk assessment and management
- Physical testing and validation
- Impact engineering and crashworthiness
- Construction, production and digital shipyards
- Operation (e.g., operational records and manned/unmanned operations)
- Digital healthcare engineering (e.g., health condition monitoring/assessment and repair for lifetime healthcare)
- Sensing, actuation and control
- Conversion and decommissioning
- Arctic and polar engineering
- Offshore and subsea engineering
- Human factors engineering
- Autonomous vessels and navigation
- Alternative fuels, fossil-free vessels and technology
- Machine learning, artificial intelligence and metaverse systems (e.g., digital twins, ICT and IoT)
- Underwater soft robotic systems
- Terrorist attacks and cyber security
Articles of interest to Ships and Offshore Structures will thus be broad-ranging, and will include contributions concerned with principles, analytical or computational modelling, physical testing, applications, case studies and operational records, which may take advantage of computer-aided methodologies, information and communication technologies, and digital technologies.
The Journal is intended to bridge the gap between theoretical developments and practical applications for the benefit of academic researchers and practicing engineers, as well as those working in related governmental, public policy and regulatory bodies.
Ships and Offshore Structures publishes articles in the form of:
- Original research articles
- State-of-the-art reviews
- Short communications
- Industry practitioner reports
- Technology case studies
- Scientific commentaries
All published articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer-reviews, based on initial editor screening and anonymous refereeing by independent expert referees.
Founder and Editor-in-Chief:
Prof. Jeom Kee Paik FREng
University College London, UK; Ningbo University, China; Harbin Engineering University, China
Editorial Board Co-Chairmen:
Prof. Norman Jones FREng – University of Liverpool, UK
Prof. Robert E. Melchers – University of Newcastle, Australia
Dr. Anil K. Thayamballi – Naval Architect and Structural Specialist, USA
Prof. Dracos Vassalos FREng – Sharjah Maritime Academy, UAE
Associate Editors:
Prof. Yong Bai – Zhejiang University, China
Dr. Simon Benson – Newcastle University, UK
Prof. Dario Boote – University of Genoa, Italy
Prof. Daejun Chang – KAIST, South Korea
Prof. Igor A. Chaves – University of Newcastle, Australia
Dr. José António Correia – University of Porto, Portugal
Dr. Taner Çoşgun – Yildiz Technical University, Türkiye
Prof. Weicheng Cui – Westlake University, China
Prof. Yan Dong – Harbin Engineering University, China
Prof. Ali Doğrul – Turkish Naval Academy of National Defence University, Türkiye
Prof. Menglan Duan – China University of Petroleum, China
Prof. Sören Ehlers – Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
Dr. Tiago Ferradosa – University of Porto, Portugal
Prof. Spyros Hirdaris – ABS Hellenic SM LLC, Greece
Prof. Pan Hu – Western Sydney University, Australia
Prof. Kazuhiro Iijima – Osaka University, Japan
Dr. Serdar Turgut Ince – Yildiz Technical University, Turkey
Dr. Junbo Jia – Aker Solutions, Norway
Prof. Do Kyun Kim – Seoul National University, South Korea
Prof. Sang Jin Kim – National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan
Prof. Dimitrios Konovessis – University of Strathclyde, UK
Dr. Vladimir Krasilnikov – SINTEF, Norway
Dr. Rafet Emek Kurt – University of Strathclyde, UK
Prof. Bin Liu – Wuhan University of Technology, China
Prof. Ninshu Ma – Osaka University, Japan
Prof. Carlos Mascaraque-Ramirez – Technical University of Cartagena, Spain
Prof. Jose M. Cabrera Miranda – Universidad de las Americas Puebla, Mexico
Prof. Mohd Hairil Bin Mohd – University of Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia
Prof. Hervé Le Sourne – ICAM University of Nantes, France
Dr. Mujeeb Ahmed Mughadar Palliparambil – University of Strathclyde, UK
Prof. Bruce W.T. Quinton – Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Prof. Jonas W. Ringsberg – Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Dr. Md Jahir Rizvi – University of Plymouth, UK
Prof. Cesare Rizzo – University of Genoa, Italy
Prof. Jani Romanoff – Aalto University, Finland
Prof. Jung Kwan Seo – Pusan National University, South Korea
Prof. Rajiv Sharma – Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
Prof. Adam Sobey – University of Southampton, UK
Prof. Fang Wang – Hangzhou City University, China
Prof. Fang Wang – Shanghai Ocean University, China
Dr. Ge Wang – gMarine, USA
Prof. Jianhong Ye – Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, China
Prof. Jian Zhang – Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, China
Prof. Pengjun Zheng – Ningbo University, China
Ships and Offshore Structures is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.
If you choose to publish open access in this journal you may be asked to pay an Article Publishing Charge (APC). You may be able to publish your article at no cost to yourself or with a reduced APC if your institution or research funder has an open access agreement or membership with Taylor & Francis.
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