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 Principles
1. Introduction
2. Wave loads for ship design and classification
3. Loads and dynamic response for offshore structures
4. Scantling of ship's hulls by rules
5. Ship hull scantling by analysis
6. Offshore structural analysis
7. Limit-state design of offshore structures

Part II: Ultimate Strength
8. Buckling/collapse of columns and beam-columns
9. Buckling and local buckling of tubular members
10. Ultimate strength of plates and stiffened plates
11. Ultimate strength of cylindrical shells
12. A theory of nonlinear finite element analysis
13. Collapse analysis of ship hulls
14. Offshore structures under impact loads
15. Offshore structures under earthquake loads

Part III: Fatigue and Fracture
16. Mechanism of fatigue and fracture
17. Fatigue capacity
18. Fatigue loading and stresses
19. Simplified fatigue assessment
20. Spectral fatigue analysis and design
21. Application of fracture mechanics
22. Material selections and damage to tolerance criteria

Part IV: Structural Reliability
23. Basics of structural reliability 
24. Random variables and uncertainty analysis
25. Reliability of ship structures
26. Reliability-based design and code calibration
27. Fatigue reliability
28. Probability and risk based inspection planning

Part V: Risk Assessment
29. Risk assessment methodology
30. Risk assessment applied to offshore structures
31. Formal safety assessment applied to the shipping industry
32. Economic risk assessment for field development
33. Human reliability assessment
34. Risk centered maintenance