Large Floating Structures Technological Advances [Hardcover]

This book surveys key projects that have seen the construction of large floating structures or have attained detailed conceptual designs. This compilation of key floating structures in a single volume captures the innovative features that mark the technological advances made in this field of engineering and will provide a useful reference for ideas, analysis, design and construction of these unique and emerging urban projects to offshore and marine engineers, urban planners, architects and students.

Chapter 1: Great Ideas Float to the Top.- Chapter 2: Floating Performance Stage at the Marina Bay, Singapore.- Chapter 3: Yumemai Floating Swing Arch Bridge of Osaka, Japan.- Chapter 4: Floating Oil Storage Bases, Japan.- Chapter 5: Ujina Floating Ferry Pier and Kan-On Floating Breakwater, Japan.- Chapter 6: Floating Offshore Wind Turbine, Nagasaki, Japan.- Chapter 7: Large Marine Concrete Structures: The Norwegian Design Experience.- Chapter 8: Mega-Float.-?Chapter 9: Large Spar Drilling and Production Platforms for Deep Water Oil and Gas.- Chapter 10: OTEC Platform.- Chapter 11: Mobile Offshore Base.- Chapter 12: Lilypad: Floating Ecopolis for Climatical Refugees.

C.M. Wang is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He received his Ph.D. degree from Monash University in?1982. Currently, he is?the Director for the Engineering Science Programme, at NUS. He is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Monash University, Australia. He?is a Chartered Structural Engineer, a Fellow of the Academy of Engineering Singapore, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Singapore and a Fellow of the Institution of Structural Engineers. He is presently the Chairman of the IStructE Singapore Regional Group. Prof. Wangs research interests are in the areas of structural stability, vibration, optimization, nanostructures and very large floating structures. He is listed in Thomson RlÓï