Large Floating Structures Technological Advances
This book surveys key projects that have seen the construction of large floating structures or have attained detailed conceptual designs. This compilation of key floating structures in a single volume captures the innovative features that mark the technol
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C.M. Wang B.T. Wang Editors
Large Floating Structures Technological Advances
Ocean Engineering & Oceanography Volume 3
Series editors Manhar R. Dhanak, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, USA Nikolas I. Xiros, New Orleans, USA
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/10524
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Editors C.M. Wang Engineering Science Programme, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering National University of Singapore Singapore Singapore
ISSN 2194-6396 ISBN 978-981-287-136-7 DOI 10.1007/978-981-287-137-4
B.T. Wang Allens Sydney, NSW Australia
ISSN 2194-640X (electronic) ISBN 978-981-287-137-4 (eBook)
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Preface
The recent decades have been marked by an unprecedented acceleration in the growth of the world’s population. Now standing at over seven billion people, the world’s population is expected to rise in this fashion until most countries become fully developed. The need to accommodate this expanding population through new spaces for habitation, work, in
