Marine architecture

Marine architecture is the design of architectural and engineering structures which support coastal design, near-shore and off-shore or deep-water planning for many projects such as shipyards, ship transport, coastal management or other marine and/or hydroscape activities. These structures include harbors, lighthouses, marinas, oil platforms, offshore drillings, accommodation platforms and offshore wind farms, floating engineering structures and building architectures or civil seascape developments. Floating structures in deep water may use suction caisson for anchoring.[1][2][3][4][5]

See also

• Cofferdam – Barrier allowing liquid to be pumped out of an enclosed area, a temporary water-excluding structure built in place, sometimes surrounding a working area as does an open caisson.
• Offshore geotechnical engineering – A sub-field of engineering concerned with human-made structures in the sea
• Civil engineering – Engineering discipline
• Marine engineering – Engineering of boats, ships, oil rigs or other marine vessel or structure
• Ocean engineering
• Oceanography – The study of the physical and biological aspects of the ocean
• Earth materials
• Floating wind turbine
• Geotechnical engineering – Scientific study of earth materials in engineering problems
• Geotechnical investigation
• Geotechnics
• Ocean – A body of water that composes much of a planet's hydrosphere
• Offshore construction – Installation of structures and facilities in a marine environment
• Offshore (hydrocarbons)
• Submarine pipeline – A pipeline that is laid on the seabed or below it inside a trench
• Subsea
• Subsea production system – Wells located on the seabed
• Wellhead – Component at the surface of a well that provides the structural and pressure-containing interface

Photo gallery

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  University of Maine's Floating wind turbine VolturnUS 1:8 was the first grid-connected offshore wind turbine in the Americas.
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  A single floating cylindrical spar buoy moored by catenary cables. Hywind uses a ballasted catenary layout that adds 60 tonne weights hanging from the midpoint of each anchor cable to provide additional tension.
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  Victorian pier at Clevedon, Somerset, England
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  The pier of Blankenberge, Belgium
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  Huntington Beach Pier, California
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  A typical Finnish pier with a table, chair and ladders for swimmers in Joutsa, Central Finland
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  USS Port Royal (CG-73) in drydock.
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  Duxbury Pier Light in Plymouth harbor.
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  Aerial view of a typical marina (harbor dredge and lighthouse in lower right)
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  Oil platform P-51 off the Brazilian coast is a semi-submersible platform
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  An oil drilling platform off the coast of Santa Barbara, CA
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  Oil platform Mittelplate includes an accommodation platform.
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  Harbour cranes unload cargo from a container ship at the Jawaharlal Nehru Port in Navi Mumbai, India.
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  Oosterscheldekering sea wall, the Netherlands.
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  One of the three movable barrier sections of the Oosterscheldekering
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  The Saipem 7000, a semi-submersible crane vessel equipped with a J-lay pipe-laying system.
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  The Solitaire, one of the largest pipe-laying ships in the world.

References

1. Marine Architecture and Engineering Careers
2. Study.com, Marine Architecture Degree Program Overviews
3. History of the University of Michigan, Naval Architecture & Marine engineering
4. U.S. Department of Transportation, Naval Architecture: Past, Present and Future
5. A History of Naval Architecture, By John Fincham

External links

• Media related to Marine architecture at Wikimedia Commons