Limit State Analyses in Design of Thin-Walled Marine Structures: Some Aspects on Length-Scales

Present paper gives an overview of the factors that affect the strength and structural design of advanced thin-walled marine structures with reduced plate thickness or alternative topologies to those used today in marine industry. Due to production-induced initial deformations and resulting geometrical non-linearity, the classical division between primary, secondary and tertiary responses becomes strongly coupled. Volume-averaged, non-linear...