2023 July - 223 articles
In this study, a common cruciform structure in ship hulls was designed and experimented with in order to analyze its deformation characteristics under planar collision and quasi-static loading. The mechanical parameters of the materials were determin...
Acoustic technology is an essential tool for detecting marine biological resources and has been widely used in sound-scattering layer (SSL) research. The North Equatorial Current (NEC) warm pool region of the Central and Western Pacific Ocean has a v...
Underwater optical imaging devices are often affected by the complex underwater environment and the characteristics of the water column, which leads to serious degradation and distortion of the images they capture. Deep learning-based underwater imag...
Semantic segmentation methods have been successfully applied in seabed sediment detection. However, fast models like YOLO only produce rough segmentation boundaries (rectangles), while precise models like U-Net require too much time. In order to achi...
This paper proposes a Cooperative-Relay Neighboring-Based Energy-Efficient Routing (CR-NBEER) protocol with advanced relay optimization for MUSN. The utilization of the relay nodes, among all other sensor nodes, makes it possible to achieve node-to-n...
The Mar Menor is a coastal lagoon of great socio-ecological and environmental value; in recent years, different localized episodes of hypoxia and eutrophication have modified the quality of its waters. The episodes are due to a drop in dissolved oxyg...
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Estuaries around the world are facing numerous threats, including urbanization, industrialization, resource scarcity, and the impacts of climate change. To increase estuarine resilience, it is crucial to manage these ecosystems to maintain their func...
In this work, supervised Machine Learning (ML) techniques were employed to solve the forward and inverse problems of airfoil and hydrofoil design. The forward problem pertains to the prediction of a foil’s aerodynamic or hydrodynamic performanc...
The exploration of the ocean is essential for the exploitation of marine resources and the sustainable development of human society. In order to assess both the health and the resources of the marine environment, a variety of chemical and biological...
A variety of floating structures at sea play a vital role in the exploitation and utilization of marine resources. The study about interactions between waves and structures is necessary for the impact of the harsh marine environment on the motion and...
In the Shenhu Area of the South China Sea, although some numerical studies are conducted on the gas production at well SHSC-4, the geomechanical responses have not been taken into account, and the associated impact of permeability enhancement on gas...
Given the lack of systematic research on bathymetric surveys with multi-beam sonar carried by autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) in unfamiliar waters, this paper proposes a method for multi-beam bathymetric surveys based on the constant-depth mode...
Microplastics (MPs) have been given considerable attention due to their risk to aquatic organisms in marine environments. In this study, MPs’ abundance and their potential correlation with environmental factors were investigated from 26 sites i...
Dredging materials from reef flats have become an important source of sand and aggregates for meeting the infrastructure needs of coral-lined shores in subtropical and tropical regions, especially for low-lying atoll islands. Dredging at the reef fla...
In this study, we analyzed the clay mineralogy and geochemistry of surface and drill core samples from the northeastern Beibu Gulf in order to unravel the sediment provenance of, and factors controlling, the sedimentary environment. The main clay min...
In this paper, the evaluation procedure for Level 1, Level 2A, and Level 2B for the parametric roll among the five modes of the IMO second generation stability criteria was explained in detail. Parametric roll mode evaluation was performed using the...
Variable-condition fish recognition is a type of cross-scene and cross-camera fish re-identification (re-ID) technology. Due to the difference in the domain distribution of fish images collected under different culture conditions, the available train...
Research was carried out on the possibility of involving oil refining wastes and petrochemical by-products in marine fuel oil. It was shown that the properties of the studied products (VAT distillation residue of butyl alcohols, heavy pyrolysis tar,...
Submarine pipelines are a safe and energy-efficient mode of gas transport. However, due to the complex manufacturing process and harsh operating environment, submarine pipelines are subject to fatigue cracks under long-term cyclic loading. A comprehe...
The discharge of sediment plumes, which occurs mainly in the two depth zones, has a critical impact on assessing the deep-sea environment. Therefore, it is necessary to establish the corresponding physical oceanography for the evolution of these sedi...
Thailand’s current beach management strategies lack integration across sectors, resulting in conflicts of interest and insufficient consideration of diverse beach uses. The complexity of environmental, socio-economic, and coastal disasters chal...
Due to the complexity of the underwater environment, tracking underwater targets via traditional particle filters is a challenging task. To resolve the problem that the tracking accuracy of a traditional particle filter is low due to the sample impov...
The determination of ice loads on polar vessels and offshore structures is important for ice-resistant design, safe operation, and management of structural integrity in ice-infested waters. Physical model testing carried out in an ice tank/basin is u...
Urban coastal flooding is a global humanitarian and socioeconomic hazard. Rising sea levels will increase the likelihood of hydrologic events interacting with high marine water levels. These compound events may, in turn, nonlinearly interact with urb...
Macro-benthos is commonly considered an indicator for evaluating the health of an aquatic ecosystem. Earlier research from sub-tropical mangrove estuaries, however, has primarily relied on conventional taxonomic methods to determine the pattern of ma...
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This paper focuses on the hydrodynamic interaction between the large floating body and a small transfer platform in a jettyless floating transfer system. A high-order boundary-element method combined with a direct time-domain-solution method to calcu...
In the intelligent engine room, the visual perception of ship engine room equipment is the premise of defect identification and the replacement of manual operation. This paper improves YOLOv5 for the problems of mutual occlusion of cabin equipment, a...
In the context of economic globalization and the development of information networks, container liner transportation plays a crucial role in international trade. However, the inherent inflexibility of fixed schedules in liner operations poses challen...
The moving pseudo-boundary method of fundamental solutions (MFS) was employed to solve the Laplace equation, which describes the potential flow in a two-dimensional (2D) numerical wave tank. The MFS is known for its ease of programming and the advant...
Over a century ago, copper mills on the Keweenaw Peninsula of Lake Superior sluiced 64 million metric tonnes (MMT) of tailings into coastal waters, creating a metal-rich “halo”. Here we show that relatively small discharges can spread wid...
In the shipping network optimization, the feeder liner companies not only need to decrease the operation cost by comprehensively optimizing the route, schedule, and fleet but also try to increase the operation income by attracting more shippers, with...
Pollution of global oceans by plastic litter is one of the most important ecological problems of our time. At the same time, the active sorption of highly toxic chemicals dissolved in water by plastic also poses a threat to the marine environment and...
Experiments were conducted to assess the selectivity of diamond mesh codends in capturing largehead hairtail (Trichiurus lepturus) in the demersal trawl fishery of the Beibu Gulf, located in the South China Sea. The selectivity experiments involved f...
The horizontal well technology was successfully applied in the Chinese second natural gas hydrate (NGH) field test in the Shenhu area of the South China Sea in 2020. However, the results show that the threshold for commercial exploitation has not bee...
In this paper, the authors analyze data obtained from a supersensitive detector of hydrosphere pressure variations which was positioned on the shelf of the Sea of Japan at a depth of 25 m for several months. When processing this data, the main attent...
By combining thermal simulation experiments with core data, thin sections, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), source rock, and high-pressure mercury and gas adsorption analysis, this paper evaluates the properties and models of shale reservoirs in t...
The influence of the maritime environment such as water currents, water depth, and traffic separation rules should be considered when conducting ship path planning. Additionally, the maneuverability constraints of the ship play a crucial role in navi...
Engineering and scientific applications are frequently affected by turbulent phenomena, which are associated with a great deal of uncertainty and complexity. Therefore, proper modeling and simulation studies are required. Traditional modeling methods...
Soft manipulators have desirable environmental compatibility because of their pliability. However, this pliability also brings challenges to modeling and control when considering contact or collision with the environment. In previous work, we establi...
Microplastics, MPs, in aquatic environments pose serious threats when associated with other pollutants, such as pharmaceuticals, PHs. This review is a continuation of an earlier paper on the role of MPs as containers and carriers of heavy metals, HMs...
The traditional study on fatigue strength for ship structures usually focuses on high cycle fatigue and ignores low cycle fatigue. However, given the recent trend towards large-scale ship development, the stress and deformation experienced by ship st...
The sloshing effect of fluid storage tanks of a Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) vessel causes variations in its global motion response. These acceleration and motion alterations can affect the safe performance of the FLNG vessels. The classific...
In order to solve the problems of subjectivity in the extraction of traditional degradation features and incomplete degradation information contained in a single sensor signal, a performance degradation assessment and abnormal health status detection...
Worldwide, coasts present increasing erosion trends, regardless of the investments made to mitigate them [...]
In offshore structures such as offshore wind turbine jacket foundations, prolonged exposure to wind and wave loads can lead to fatigue failure, especially at the joint connections. Currently, international codes primarily evaluate the fatigue perform...
Within the MARCET European project and community framework, a Waveglider®™ SV2 vehicle was deployed, equipped with a passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) device, in a Special Area of Conservation (SAC) of Gran Canaria (Canary Islands, Spain)....
Hurricane storm surges are influenced by wind intensity, forward speed, width and slope of the ocean bottom, central pressure, angle of approach, shape of coastal lines, local features, and storm size. A numerical experiment is conducted using the Ad...
The Maritime Silk Road (MSR) is an important channel for maritime trade between China and other countries in the world. Maritime piracy has brought huge security risks to ships’ navigation and has seriously threatened the lives and property of...
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