Sustainable Use of Marine Resources: Green Construction, Safe Operation and Environmental Impact of Offshore Projects

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue focuses on offshore engineering issues involved in the sustainable use of marine resources. The ocean provides human society with abundant resources and energy, including epeirogenic space, marine materials, fossil fuels and clean energy. The exploitation of marine resources depends on the construction of infrastructure, meaning that the construction, operation and impact of offshore projects on marine environments will affect the sustainable utilization of marine resources.

The resourceful use of marine materials instead of traditional building materials will be helpful in reducing project costs, saving energy and reducing carbon emissions. Similarly, the research and development of new energy conversion systems can improve the utilization rate of marine energy. The marine environment is complex and changeable, long-term corrosion and extreme weather will inevitably lead to project damage, resulting in energy supply interruption, energy leakage, sea area pollution and other problems. Therefore, systematic research on these issues is the key to avoiding disasters. In addition, the application of emerging digital technology to offshore engineering can effectively improve the level of intelligent marine resource utilization.

The purpose of this Special Issue is to promote the sustainable use of marine resources through the application of new technologies, offshore engineering stability prediction and marine environmental impact assessment. Any questions related to this field may be submitted and published in this Special Issue.

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

• The environmental impact and ecological compensation of reclamation projects.
• Green construction and the bearing capacity calculation of drilling platforms and offshore wind power pile foundation.
• New technology for the sustainable transformation of marine energy.
• Stability analysis of offshore engineering under extreme conditions such as typhoon, tsunami, earthquake and freezing temperatures.
• Life cycle assessment of offshore structures under long-term weathering erosion.
• The environmental impact of offshore engineering under seawater erosion.
• The reclamation and utilization of marine materials such as coral and sea sand in engineering construction.
• The application of digital technologies such as artificial intelligence technology in offshore engineering.
• Evaluation models of the sustainable development of marine resources.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

You may choose our Joint Special Issue in JMSE.

Prof. Dr. Chong Jiang
Prof. Dr. Minghui Yang
Dr. Pingbao Yin
Guest Editors

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• sustainable utilization
• offshore engineering
• green building
• marine materials
• extreme conditions
• weathering and erosion
• safe operation
• digital technology
• environmental impact
• evaluation model