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Wave–Structure–Seabed Interaction
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Wave–Structure–Seabed Interaction

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: 20 June 2025 | Viewed by 561

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Fuping Gao

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Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
Interests: wave-structure-seabed interaction; seabed liquefaction; scour around marine structures; submarine pipeline; offshore foundations; fluid-structure interaction; physical modeling; wave flume observations
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Dr. Hongwei An

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Faculty of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering, The University of Western Australia (M051), 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Australia
Interests: engineering and mathematical sciences
Prof. Dr. Jisheng Zhang

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College of Harbor, Coastal and Offshore Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China
Interests: offshore geotechnics; coastal engineering; tidal stream energy
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, there has been rapid development in the innovative design and installation of offshore structures for exploiting offshore oil and gas and renewable energy resources, including offshore wind, waves, and tidal currents. Understanding the complex interactions between ocean waves/currents, engineering structures, and seabed soils is pivotal in underpinning offshore structure systems' safety and resilience. Accordingly, JMSE is publishing a Special Issue on “Wave–Structure–Seabed Interaction”.

This Special Issue aims to collect the most recent advances in analytical and numerical analyses and physical modeling of fluid–structure–soil coupling processes. You are invited to contribute a research, review, or perspective article. We believe your contributions would significantly push the boundaries of knowledge in this research field. This issue will be open for submissions for a few months to attract worldwide attention.

Prof. Dr. Fuping Gao
Dr. Hongwei An
Prof. Dr. Jisheng Zhang
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Keywords

  • seabed liquefaction
  • scour and erosion
  • offshore structure–seabed interaction
  • wave–structure–seabed interaction

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A Comparative Analysis of In Situ Testing Methods for Clay Strength Evaluation Using the Coupled Eulerian–Lagrangian Method
by Hebo Wang, Yifa Wang, Biao Li, Wengang Qi and Ning Wang
J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2025, 13(5), 935; https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse13050935 - 9 May 2025
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The progression of marine resource exploration into deepwater and ultra-deepwater regions has intensified the requirement for precise quantification of the undrained shear strength of clay. Although diverse in situ testing methodologies—including the vane shear test (VST), cone penetration test (CPT), T-bar penetration test [...] Read more.
The progression of marine resource exploration into deepwater and ultra-deepwater regions has intensified the requirement for precise quantification of the undrained shear strength of clay. Although diverse in situ testing methodologies—including the vane shear test (VST), cone penetration test (CPT), T-bar penetration test (TPT), and ball penetration test (BPT)—are widely utilized for the assessment of clay strength, systematic discrepancies and correlations between their derived measurements remain inadequately resolved. The aim of this work is to provide a systematic comparison of strength interpretations across different in situ testing methods, with emphasis on identifying method-specific biases under varying soil behaviors. To achieve this, a unified numerical simulation framework was developed to simulate these four prevalent testing techniques, employing large-deformation finite element analysis via the Coupled Eulerian–Lagrangian (CEL) approach. The model integrates critical constitutive behaviors of marine clays, specifically strain softening and strain rate dependency, to replicate in situ shear strength evolution. Rigorous sensitivity analyses confirm the model’s robustness. The results indicate that, when the stain rate and softening effects are neglected, the resistance factors from the CPT and VST remain largely insensitive to shear strength variations. However, T-bar and ball penetrometers tend to underestimate strength by up to 15% in high-strength soils due to the incomplete development of a full-flow failure mechanism. As a result, their application in high-strength soils is not recommended. With both the strain rate and softening effects considered, the interpreted strength value Sut from the CPT increases by 13.5% compared to cases excluding these effects, while other methods exhibit marginal decreases of 4–5%. The isolated analysis of strain softening reveals that, under identical softening parameters, the CPT demonstrates the least sensitivity to strain softening among the four methods examined, with the factor reduction ratio Ns/N0 ranging from 0.76 to 1.00, while the other three methods range from 0.65 to 0.88. The results indicate that the CPT is well suited for strength testing in soils exhibiting pronounced softening behavior, as it reduces the influence of strain softening on the measured results. These findings provide critical insights into method-specific biases in undrained shear strength assessments, supporting a more reliable interpretation of in situ test data for deepwater geotechnical applications. Full article
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