Groundbreaking and comprizing articles by expert contributors, this volume provides a comprehensive treatment of VLFSs and their relationship with the sea, marine habitats, the pollution of costal waters and tidal and natural current flow.

It looks in-depth at:

• VLFS and the colonization of ocean space with their appearance in the waters off developed coastal cities
• wave properties, which is essential for estimating the loading on the VLFS as well as for modelling structure-fluid interactions
• hydroelastic and structural analysis of VLFS at an...