IES/IStructE Joint Committee
(Singapore Division)
An Evening Talk (2 PDUs)
VERY LARGE FLOATING STRUCTURES
by Prof. Wang Chien Ming
Centre for Offshore Research and Engineering
Department of Civil Engineering, National University of Singapore
Date:
15 September 2004 (Wednesday)
Times:
7.00 pm - 9.00 pm
Venue:
IES Building((Buffet Dinner will be served at 6.00pm)
Fees:
S$10 for IStructE & IES members
S$18 for non-members
SYNOPSIS - VERY LARGE FLOATING STRUCTURES
In this lecture, the audience will be introduced to the world of very large floating structures (VLFS)
that have been gradually appearing in the waters off developed coastal cities (and countries with
coastlines). Their presence is largely due to a severe shortage of land and the sky-rocketing land costs
in recent times. After providing a description of a VLFS and highlighting its advantages (under certain
conditions) over the traditional land reclamation in creating space from the sea, the speaker will bring
to attention the early, the present and future applications of VLFS. The input design data, hydroelastic
analysis and design considerations for very large floating structures will also be briefly discussed, albeit
in the most basic forms. In the lecture, there will also be a 15-minute video presentation on the MegaFloat (the world's largest man-made floating island).
CV OF SPEAKER - PROFESSOR WANG CHIEN MING
C.M. Wang is a Professor of Civil Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He
graduated from Monash University in Civil Engineering with a First Class Honours in 1978 and was
awarded a M.Eng.Sc. and a Ph.D. degree from the same university in 1980 and 1982, respectively.
Professor Wang is a Chartered Engineer and a member of the Institution of Structural Engineers (U.K.),
Institution of Engineers Singapore and the American Society of Civil Engineers. He is presently
the Chairman of the IES/IStructE Joint Committee. His research interests are in the areas of structural
stability, vibration, optimization, plated structures and Mega-Floats. He has written over 300 scientific
publications including three books "Vibration of Mindlin Plates", "Shear Deformable Beams and Plates:
Relationships with Classical Solutions" and "Exact Solutions for Buckling of Structural Members". The
first two books were published in 1998 and 2000, respectively, by Elsevier Science while the latest
book is published by CRC Press in July 2004. He is an Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of
Structural Stability and Dynamics and an Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Computational
Structural Engineering.
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Evening Talk On Very Large Floating Structures
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