Fatigue Assessment and Extreme Response Prediction of Ship Structures
Wengang Mao from the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Chalmers conducts research in fatigue assessment and extreme response prediction of ship structures. His research project in the thesis is closely cooperated with Department of Shipping and Marine Technology, and DNV. The project is partly funded by the EU SEAMOCS project.
In the project, a simplified narrow-band approximation model is proposed to estimate fatigue damage of ship structures, and an efficient method for extreme response predictions is also developed using up-crossing spectrums of ship responses. The two simplified models are established and extensively validated using on full-scale measurements and both linear and nonlinear numerical analysis of structural response of container ships, in order to consider the fatigue related issues in a ship routing system.
Beside his research work, Wengang Mao also passed about 20 courses at both departments. He started his PhD studies in 2007 and got his PhD degree one year earlier than scheduled. Before his PhD, he worked in China Classification Society as a Ship Structural Engineer in China, where he got his master degree in Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering in Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2006.
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