| Uncertainty of average wave steepness prediction from global wave databases | p. 3 |
| Wave induced global loads for a damaged vessel | p. 11 |
| Effect of ship length on the vertical bending moments induced by abnormal waves | p. 23 |
| On extreme ship response in severe short-term sea slate | p. 33 |
| The 2D numerical modelling of slamming on a wedge and bow shape using the finite volume method | p. 41 |
| Extreme value predictions and critical wave episodes for marine structures by FORM | p. 51 |
| Extreme response estimation for marine structures based on design contours and response surface methods | p. 61 |
| Ship weather routing based on seakeeping performance | p. 71 |
| Time domain simulation of ship global loads clue to progressive flooding | p. 79 |
| Investigation of the variation of loads experienced by a damaged ship in waves | p. 89 |
| Derivation of slamming loads using the optimal state estimation method | p. 99 |
| Effective breakwaters for high speed container vessels | p. 107 |
| The racking analysis in the early stages of the structural design | p. 117 |
| Broadband excitation induced by propellers and ships comfort evaluation | p. 127 |
| Numerical analysis of Eigen vibration modes for an orthotropic ship structural panel | p. 135 |
| Non-linear hydroelastic response analysis in head waves, for a large bulk carrier ship hull | p. 147 |
| Round Robin study on structural hot-spot and effective notch stress analysis | p. 159 |
| Fatigue strength assessment of floating production storage and unloading vessels | p. 169 |
| Effects of changes in curvature on the natural characteristics of curved structures | p. 177 |
| Hydroelastic analysis of cantilever plate in time domain | p. 187 |
| Residual strength and survivability of ships under combined vertical and horizontal bending | p. 197 |
| Collapse strength of longitudinal plate assemblies with dimple imperfections | p. 207 |
| First - principles collision analysis for design | p. 217 |
| On the influence of boundary conditions on the vibrations of ship propulsion systems | p. 225 |
| Development of a numerical simulation method for fatigue crack propagation in structures under variable amplitude loading | p. 233 |
| A method for progressive structural crashworthiness analysis under collisions and grounding | p. 241 |
| Methods for ultimate limit state assessment of marine structures : a benchmark study | p. 249 |
| Bending response of laser-welded web-core sandwich plates | p. 263 |
| Studies on the behaviour of bottom structures during grounding | p. 273 |
| Global strength analysis in head waves, for a tanker with longitudinal uniform structure | p. 283 |
| A numerical approach for fatigue crack propagation in ship structures under wave loading - a review of the development of CP-system | p. 295 |
| The natural vibration characteristics of a water-shell tank interaction system | p. 305 |
| Natural dynamic characteristics of an integrated liquid - LNG tank-water interaction system | p. 313 |
| Analysis of sharp corners in structural details | p. 323 |
| Formulation for ultimate shear strength of ship structure | p. 331 |
| Comparison of experimental and numerical impact loads on ship-like sections | p. 339 |
| A plea for large-scale testing | p. 351 |
| Numerical study of the absorbed energy in clamped steel beams with different lengths under transverse impact | p. 357 |
| Measuring damping properties of viscoelastic materials for marine applications | p. 367 |
| Experimental evaluation of the behaviour of a mild steel box girder under bending moment | p. 377 |
| An experimental and numerical study on GFRP box girder under pure bending | p. 385 |
| Structural loads and response analysis for a Canadian frigate | p. 391 |
| A benchmark study on ductile failure criteria for shell elements in multiaxial stress stale | p. 401 |
| Buckling strength of square composite plates with geometrical imperfections - preliminary results | p. 413 |
| Vibration characteristics of smart sandwich beams embedded with magnetorheological elastomer cores | p. 421 |
| Improving the strength of adhesive butt joints for pultruded composites | p. 429 |
| A review of the causes of production defects in marine composite structures and their influence on performance | p. 435 |
| Benchmark on ship structural optimisation | p. 453 |
| Optimisation of a container ship hull structure | p. 465 |
| A concept of omni-optimization for ship structural design | p. 473 |
| Least cost optimization of a large passenger vessel | p. 483 |
| Structural optimization in fatigue-life assessment concerning a DDG of Ammiragli Class of the Italian Navy | p. 489 |
| Decision support problem formulation for structural concept design of ship structures | p. 499 |
| Holistic analysis of ship's sustainability | p. 513 |
| Inland water going ship risk assessment | p. 523 |
| Impact of the new common structural rules on the reliability of a bulk carrier | p. 529 |
| Practical reliability assessment method of ship's hull girder in longitudinal bending | p. 539 |
| Structural system reliability using FEM and reliability processors | p. 547 |
| Structural reliability levels in Ice Class rules | p. 557 |
| Factors affecting the non-destructive inspection of marine structures | p. 565 |
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