Ships and Offshore Structures is a well-established international, peer-reviewed journal, which provides an authoritative forum for publication and discussion of recent advances and future trends in all aspects of science, technology and engineering across the maritime industry.

The Journal covers both ships (including merchant ships, war ships, submarines and polar ships) and offshore structures (floating and fixed offshore platforms, offshore infrastructure, underwater vehicles and subsea facilities) with a strong emphasis on practical design, construction, operation and decommissioning. Safety, reliability, performance, and cost efficiency are among the aspects of interest.

Specific areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

    Maritime legislations, standards, recommended practices and education
    Initial planning, concept design and contracting
    Zero emission and decarbonisation
    Multidisciplinary design optimisation (e.g., fluid-structure interaction and stability-crashworthiness interaction)
    Large database and data-centric engineering (e.g., in-situ measurements of site-specific metocean data and in-service damage data)
    Hydrodynamics and propulsion
    Structures and materials
    Limit states (e.g., ultimate limit states, serviceability limit states, fatigue limit states and accidental limit states)
    Vibration and noise
    Intact/damage stability and accidental flooding
    Machinery and marine engineering
    Ocean and environmental engineering
    Renewable energy and technology
    Safety design and engineering with extreme conditions and accidents
    Quantitative risk assessment and management
    Physical testing and validation
    Impact engineering and crashworthiness
    Construction, production and digital shipyards
    Operation (e.g., operational records and manned/unmanned operations)
    Digital healthcare engineering (e.g., health condition monitoring/assessment and repair for lifetime healthcare)
    Sensing, actuation and control
    Conversion and decommissioning
    Arctic and polar engineering
    Offshore and subsea engineering
    Human factors engineering
    Autonomous vessels and navigation
    Alternative fuels, fossil-free vessels and technology
    Machine learning, artificial intelligence and metaverse systems (e.g., digital twins, ICT and IoT)
    Underwater soft robotic systems
    Terrorist attacks and cyber security

Articles of interest to Ships and Offshore Structures will thus be broad-ranging, and will include contributions concerned with principles, analytical or computational modelling, physical testing, applications, case studies and operational records, which may take advantage of computer-aided methodologies, information and communication technologies, and digital technologies.

The Journal is intended to bridge the gap between theoretical developments and practical applications for the benefit of academic researchers and practicing engineers, as well as those working in related governmental, public policy and regulatory bodies.

Ships and Offshore Structures publishes articles in the form of:

    Original research articles
    State-of-the-art reviews
    Short communications
    Industry practitioner reports
    Technology case studies
    Scientific commentaries

All published articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer-reviews, based on initial editor screening and anonymous refereeing by independent expert referees.

Founder and Editor-in-Chief:
Professor Jeom Kee Paik FREng 
- University College London, U.K. 
- Pusan National University, South Korea
Editorial Board Co-Chairmen:   
Robert E. Melchers - University of Newcastle, Australia 
Anil K. Thayamballi - Naval Architect and Structural Specialist, U.S.A. 
Dracos Vassalos FREng - University of Strathclyde, U.K.
Editorial Board Members:  
Jørgen Amdahl - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Yong Bai - Zhejiang University, China
Anirban Bhattacharyya - Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
Daejun Chang - KAIST, South Korea
Wei Cheng Cui - Shanghai Ocean University, China
Sören Ehlers - Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
Igor Guz - University of Aberdeen, U.K.
Spyros Hirdaris - Aalto University, Finland
Serdar Turgut Ince - Yildiz Technical University, Turkey
Atilla Incecik - University of Strathclyde, U.K.
Taek Soo Jang - Pusan National University, South Korea
Junbo Jia - Aker Solutions, Norway
Norman Jones FREng - University of Liverpool, U.K.
Tae Hwan Joung, KRISO, South Korea
Do Kyun Kim - Newcastle University, U.K.
Yonghwan Kim - Seoul National University, South Korea
Magnus Langseth - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Seung Keon Lee - Pusan National University, South Korea
Hervé Le Sourne - ICAM University of Nantes, France
Inge Lotsberg - DNV GL, Norway
Teresa Magoga - Department of Defence, Australia
Carlos Mascaraque-Ramírez - Technical University of Cartagena, Spain
Jose M. Cabrera Miranda - Universidad de las Americas Puebla, Mexico
Mohd Hairil Bin Mohd - University of Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia
Bruce W.T. Quinton - Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada 
Philippe Rigo - University of Liege, Belgium
Jonas W. Ringsberg - Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Md Jahir Rizvi - University of Plymouth, U.K.
Cesare Rizzo - University of Genova, Italy
Prasanta K. Sahoo - Florida Institute of Technology, U.S.A.
Emmanuel Samuelides - National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Jung Kwan Seo - Pusan National University, South Korea
Carlos Guedes Soares - University of Lisbon, Portugal
Sankunny Surendran, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
Yiannis Ventikos - University College London, U.K.
Ge (George) Wang - gMarine, U.S.A.
Samy A.M. Youssef - Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport, Egypt
Vedran Zanic - University of Zagreb, Croatia
Shengming Zhang - Lloyd’s Register, U.K.