Monitoring and Evaluation of Marine Engineering Equipment and Structures—2nd Edition
A special issue of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (ISSN 2077-1312). This special issue belongs to the section "Ocean Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 June 2026 | Viewed by 51
Special Issue Editors
Interests: marine structure monitoring and assessment; fiber optic sensing technology; pipeline integrity management
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Interests: marine engineering structures; structural health monitoring; structural vibration control
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Interests: structural analysis and environmental intensity of ships and marine structures corrosion protection for ships and marine engineering; damage evolution mechanism and life cycle safety management of offshore platform structures
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Following the success of the first edition, the second edition of this Special Issue, “Monitoring and Evaluation of Marine Engineering Equipment and Structures—2nd Edition,” aims to capture the latest advances in marine structural health monitoring (SHM)—a field now central to deep-sea oil/gas exploitation, large-scale offshore wind development, and low-carbon marine infrastructure goals.
Marine structures such as floating wind turbines, deep-sea platforms, and subsea pipelines face growing challenges: traditional threats of corrosion, dynamic loads, and fatigue are now compounded by deep-sea high-pressure environments, extreme weather like super typhoons and polar cold surges, and the need to align structural safety with carbon neutrality. Ensuring their integrity is key to preventing disasters, cutting costs, and unlocking blue energy.
Innovations are reshaping the field: digital twin technology enables real-time virtual structural mapping; AI—especially deep and transfer learning—improves early damage detection; and novel sensing tools (high-resistance fiber optics, low-power IoT networks) and green corrosion protection systems refine monitoring-maintenance loops.
This Special Issue seeks high-impact research (original articles, reviews, case studies) to bridge academia and industry. We prioritize practical relevance and technological novelty, with research areas including the following:
- Deep-sea oil/gas platform and floating wind turbine monitoring, maintenance and safety assessment;
- Stability and dynamic response analysis under extreme marine conditions;
- Fatigue and fracture mechanics of marine structures in multi-factor environments;
- Advanced sensing via fiber optics, low-power IoT and smart material self-sensing;
- Marine corrosion monitoring and eco-friendly protection systems;
- Digital twin-driven virtual-real fusion and lifecycle management;
- AI and big data for early damage identification and residual life prediction;
- Vibration control and modal identification of flexible marine structures;
- Sensor deployment optimization and multi-sensor fusion for large-scale structures;
- Polar marine biofouling assessment and ice-structure interaction analysis;
- Lifetime extension techniques for aging marine structures;
- Synergistic monitoring of structural health and energy efficiency for low-carbon marine equipment.
Authors are encouraged to highlight their work’s significance to fundamental knowledge or industrial problem-solving. We look forward to your contributions.
Dr. Ziguang Jia
Dr. Peng Zhang
Prof. Dr. Yi Huang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- artificial intelligence
- digital twin
- marine structural monitoring
- modal identification
- sensor deployment
- corrosion protection
- load and response identification
- lifecycle management
- offshore wind turbine
- deep-sea platform
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