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Ship and Offshore Structural Engineering Lab
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The lab supports the safety of ships and offshore structures through numerical methods and AI.
AboutAbout the lab
Supporting ships and offshore structures with numerical methods and AI
The Ship and Offshore Structural Engineering Lab studies ships and offshore structures, focusing on structural integrity assessment, numerical simulation, and digital twins.
The lab also works on floating offshore wind turbines, offshore construction, digital transformation (DX) in shipbuilding, and robotics.
To support every stage of design, construction, and operation, the lab combines CFD, FEM, statistical methods, machine learning, and AI.
By combining experiments, numerical analysis, and data-driven methods, the lab aims to improve the safety, reliability, and productivity of ships and offshore structures.
Key terms
- Digital twin
- A technology for managing structures safely through monitoring and simulation.
- Surrogate model
- A model that produces results of practical accuracy in a short time, in place of detailed analyses that are computationally expensive.
- Mooring
- A system that holds floating wind turbines and floating structures in place by connecting them to the seabed with chains or similar means.
ResearchResearch themes
To improve the safety, reliability, and productivity of ships and offshore structures, the lab conducts research that supports every stage of design, construction, and operation. It combines CFD, FEM, statistical methods, machine learning, and AI, and works on digital twins, shipbuilding DX, robotics, and more.
*Illustrative imageDigital twins and surrogate models
This research aims to assess the integrity of alternative fuel tanks and their supporting structures accurately and efficiently. Focusing on phenomena such as sloshing, the lab works to build analysis methods that use tools such as reduced-order models to ensure practical accuracy in a short time.
*Illustrative imageAdaptive construction methods for large floating structures
When floating offshore wind turbines and float bases are built on site, they are affected by relative motion caused by waves. Focusing on temporary fixing, temporary support, and fitting, the lab investigates jigs and restraint methods that work according to the conditions.
*Illustrative imageMooring optimization for floating wind turbines
For the mooring of floating offshore wind turbines and float bases placed in deep water, the lab efficiently evaluates the maximum response under combined wind and wave loads and searches for optimal design parameters. It aims at mooring optimization that also takes uncertainty into account.
*Illustrative imageReproducing shipbuilding processes with welding deformation taken into account
For the assembly process of hull blocks, the lab studies process simulation that guides robot work planning while taking welding deformation into account. It aims at more realistic reproduction by combining a virtual environment with welding deformation evaluation based on the inherent strain method and the inherent deformation method.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Ship and Offshore Structural Engineering Lab consist of faculty, doctoral students, master's students, undergraduate students, and short-term exchange students.As of 2026
- ProfessorKazuhiro Iijima
- Associate ProfessorAkira Tatsumi
- Project Assistant ProfessorBinyang Xie
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Agucadoura WindFloat Prototype” Untrakdrover / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Digital twins and surrogate models: “LNG-Tankcontainer DSCI8886 K-P” Dr. Karl-Heinz Hochhaus / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Adaptive construction methods for large floating structures: “The Sea Jack floating crane - geograph.org.uk - 1342152” Nick Smith / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Mooring optimization for floating wind turbines: “Seawind Ocean Technology Two-Bladed Floating Wind Turbine” Jason Lawton / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Reproducing shipbuilding processes with welding deformation taken into account: “Arc welding robot 001” KOMATSU Ltd / CC BY-SA 2.1 jp (cropped)
- Related lab (Ship and Ocean Fluid Engineering Lab): “Convair Negative Image - Tow basin ship model in tank )” San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Ocean Space Development Engineering Lab): “Container ship Reecon Whale on Black Sea near Constanța Romania” HopsonRoad / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Marine Materials and Production Engineering Lab): “Shipbuilding, Liverpool 1944” 作者不詳 / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Structural Engineering Lab): “Fledborough viaduct welded steel bridge girders - geograph.org.uk - 4728457” Steve Fareham / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
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