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.
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