Scour around Offshore Structures: Process, Evolution and Protection

Dear Colleagues,

The scour of sediments around offshore structures by wave currents is the most important factor contributing to their failure. The scour of offshore structures leads to human fatalities and economic losses every year. Most of the research on scour mechanisms has been carried out on current and sediment environments. However, seabed soil is constantly liquefied and re-consolidated in complex marine environments, resulting in continuous changes in the properties of seabed soil. There are fewer studies involving the properties of seabed soil. Moreover, traditional scour protection measures mostly exist along the river pile scour protection measures, which have various shortcomings and cannot be effective in the long term in complex hydrodynamic and soil environments. Therefore, revealing the scouring mechanism under the coupling of the seabed soil, sediment, and wave–current are crucial for the design and protection of offshore structures.

In this Special Issue, we invite submissions on scour mechanisms and scour protection methods for offshore hydraulic structures in order to solve the this problem under the complex fluid–structure–soil interaction and develop effective scour protection methods. This Special Issue will cover research on scour macroscopic mechanisms, scour protection methods, scour model tests, and numerical simulations of scour for offshore structures. New findings, methods, tools, and improved models for other studies of water–soil systems are welcome.

Prof. Dr. Xuguang Chen
Prof. Dr. Fayun Liang
Guest Editors

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