About MARSTRUCT
The MARSTRUCT series of Conferences sprung from the MARSTRUCT Network of Excellence with 33 partners, which was active from February 2004 to January 2010. It has become a biannual series of Conferences dedicated to Marine Structures allowing for periodic reporting and discussion of developments in the field. Meanwhile, MARSTRUCT is being continued as a Virtual Institute. The seven previous MARSTRUCT Conferences have been held in:
• Glasgow, 2007
• Lisbon, 2009
• Hamburg, 2011
• Helsinki, 2013
• Southampton, 2015
• Lisbon, 2017
• Dubrovnik, 2019
The absence of an International Conference specially dedicated to Marine Structures was determinant in the decision to promote this as a regular event. The seven previous Conferences were successfully organised, bringing together authors from 20 countries, worldwide presenting close to 100 papers at each Conference.
The next edition of the Conference will be organized in Trondheim, Norway and continues centered on the community interested in the various aspects related with Marine Structures.
The organisers aim at maintaining the good standard of the proceedings already achieved, and Taylor & Francis will once again be the chosen publisher, as with previous proceedings that have been indexed on the ISI Web of Knowledge and on SCOPUS. The full papers will be peer-reviewed before acceptance, to maintain the quality of the final publication in order to meet the requirements of the academic and research community. The best papers will be selected for a special issue of an international journal dedicated to marine structures. This Conference will rely on its Committees as the main contributing body to the review process and acceptance of papers.
Given the present situation in several European countries the MARSTRUCT 2021 Conference is being planned as a remote Conference to ensure the periodicity between Conferences in this series. However the evolution expected for next year with the planned start of vaccination opens the possibility of having a component of the Conference in physical presence and this option will be prepared so that as many participants that feel the interest in joining physically can do so. The organisers are aware that the dimension of the physical component of the Conference will depend on the evolution of many uncertain factors, so at this stage both possibilities are kept open until a certain deadline that will be set later, ensuring however that the online component will always function.
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