Special collection on seabed liquefaction

Why not start the year with a read of our special collection on Modeling of Liquefaction Around Marine Structures in the Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering of ASCE Publishing?! 

Our special collection announcement by our guest editors Christian Windt, Özgür Kirca, and Nils Goseberg was published today and gives you a great overview of the different contributions and proposes and agenda for future research: ascelibrary.org/doi/epdf/10.1061/JWPED5.WWENG-2436

Seabed liquefaction forms a major design challenge for offshore and coastal structures, gaining further relevance with the increasing number of deployments in the marine environment. Due to the combination of complex hydrodynamic and geotechnical processes, the modeling of seabed liquefaction both in physical experiments across scales and using numerical tools is non-trivial and significant shortcomings remain prevalent. The NuLIMAS project (Numerical modeling of LIquefaction around MArine Structures) was set forth to address such shortcomings by developing a novel numerical toolbox to analyze the entire sequence of seabed liquefaction (pore pressure build-up, change of state from solid to liquid, pore pressure dissipation, and reversibly, change of state from liquid to solid including soil compaction). The special collection conveys a majority of the results of the NuLIMAS project, in particular advances in process understanding of seabed liquefaction from experimental studies at small and large scale, as well as numerical modeling exercises concerning the hydrodynamic behavior of marine structures during installation, and the development of the holistic numerical model, together with its validation and application. The announcement provides summaries of the individual contributions to this special collection and provides an agenda for future research as the consequent continuation of the NuLIMAS project.

All papers in the special collection can be found here: ascelibrary.org/jwped5/liquefaction-marine-structures

Special thanks to all contributors!  In alphabetical order these are: Frank Adam, KrystynaKazimierowicz-Frankowska, Matthias Kudella, Marek Kulczykowski, Dawid Majewski, Jacek Mierczyński, Henrik Rusche, Stefan Schimmels, Ranjith Shanmugasundaram, Marcin Smyczyński,B. Mutlu Sumer, Waldemar Swidzinski, and Vinay Vanjakula 

The work for the special collection was funded bythe ERA-NET Co-fund MarTERA Program under EU Horizon2020 Framework (Grant no. 728053), the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (Grant no. 03SX524A),the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey(Grant no. TEYDEB-1509/9190068), and the Polish National Centre for Research and Development (Grant MarTERA-2/NuLIMAS/3/2021). Additionally, the work was supported by the European Union through the Horizon Europe project INF4INiTY (Grantagreement no. 101136087). V. S. O. Kirca and B. M. Sumer acknowledge ITU ARI 395 Teknokent for their ongoing support under the ITU ARI Teknokent Research and Development activities. N. Goseberg has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme (Grant agreement no.101123732).