Sustainability of Engineering Structures in Marine Environment
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 6467
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
marine and marine-like (e.g. influence of water, sea, slush, moist, salt, sun, temperature, etc.) environment presents serious threat to engineering structures. Engineers tend to design structures resistant to harsh environmental impact, however, degradation and failures of such structures are inevitable. Cost of replacing them is high, so it is of special interest to investigate the possibility of optimizing engineering structures in a way that they are sustainable, i.e. have extended service life, are easily reparable and efficiently recycled.
This Special Issue seeks to answer these challenges through publishing papers that are concerned with design, manufacture, maintenance and repair of engineering structures exposed to harsh environment.
These points of concern can be applied to, but not limited:
- development and optimization of adequate materials (traditional and modern),
- joining of materials and structures (mechanical, welding, adhesive),
- assessing structural integrity (wear, damage, fatigue, fracture, failure),
- improving energy conversion and efficiency.
This Special Issue will bring together scientist dealing with various aspects of improving sustainability of engineering structures exposed to marine, or similar, environment. Analytical, experimental and numerical approaches to research are welcome, particularly blend of these.
Dr. Goran Vukelic
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- engineering structures
- environmental impact
- mechanics
- materials
- energy
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