Welded and Adhesive Joints for Marine Applications
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701). This special issue belongs to the section "Welding and Joining".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2023) | Viewed by 18360
Special Issue Editors
Interests: light-weight structures and green materials in shipbuilding; innovative methods for fatigue prediction
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Interests: fatigue; marine structures; welded joints; digital image correlation; infrared thermography; finite element analysis; explosion welding; composites; shipbuilding
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Welding represents the main junction technique for marine structure applications, ranging from ship to offshore welded structures.
Different challenges such as protection from corrosion, self-weight reduction, and higher static and fatigue strengths are more often required for many applications, such as offshore and oil and gas structures, introducing the need to use different metals.
When dealing with the junctions between different materials, several problems can arise with traditional welding processes in terms of overall strength; thus, adhesives are often used for their connection. The recent literature on adhesive application in the maritime sector has shown substantial potential.
Currently, particular attention is being paid to dissimilar welding, which may produce several improvements such as self-weight reduction, protection from corrosion, and higher static and fatigue strengths.
It is well known that welds are critical areas that need dedicated study. This is because the static and fatigue failure of marine welded structures is an exceptionally localized process, relying on multiple parameters such as corrosion, local geometry, loading conditions, and material properties.
Investigation methodologies vary from numerical (FEM for the identification of the joints’ structure and for the prediction of their mechanical behavior) to experimental investigations (e.g., static and fatigue tests and non-destructive techniques for microstructure and defect detection).
The aim of the Special Issue “Welded and Adhesive Joints for Marine Applications” is to publish high-quality contributions, which should provide original ideas and new approaches, with a clear indication of the advances with respect to existing results.
Topics addressed in this Special Issue may include, but are not limited to:
- Innovative methods for fatigue prediction of welded and adhesive joints;
- Experimental techniques for fatigue analysis;
- Fatigue design of ship and offshore welded structures;
- Large-scale tests on marine and offshore structural details;
- Analysis of fatigue failure in welded and adhesive joints;
- Corrosion tests on marine and offshore welded joints.
This Special Issue is also a chance to debate on the future perspectives of welded and adhesive joints used in marine environments.
Prof. Dr. Vincenzo Crupi
Dr. Pasqualino Corigliano
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Fatigue of welded and adhesive joints
- Marine structures
- Offshore structures
- Shipbuilding
- Dissimilar welded joints
- Hybrid joints
- Finite element analysis
- Experimental techniques
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