Fire Risk Assessment and Management for Ships and Offshore Structures

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to submit your recent work to the Special Issue “Fire Risk Assessment and Management for Ships and Offshore Structures”.

Fire is a major risk for ships and offshore structures, with frequent accidents and severe losses. At present, the transportation industry is undergoing energy transformation, and the marine engineering industry is also conducting research on new energy resources. These new types of combustibles have never been widely used at sea, making their quantitative assessment and the prevention of fire risk increasingly urgent.

This Special Issue aims to explore the mechanisms, evolutionary paths, and isolation methods of fire risk in ships and offshore structures.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

1. Enabling technologies for fire detection, such as smart sensors and instruments, communication technologies, and artificial intelligence;
2. Fire risk assessment methodology and practice for complex systems, such as PCTC, cruises, etc.;
3. Operation and maintenance strategies in terms of fire risk;
4. Risk-based design principles for novel offshore systems, such as offshore renewable energy hydrogen production systems;
5. Experimental techniques for ship and marine structure fires.

Dr. Jichuan Kang
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Fire is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.