The search for new sources of energy, as well as other minerals, has focused future development offshore, and often times in areas subject to extreme wind and seismic forces. In a like manner, coastal structures, in support of transportation and commercial operations or in protection of facilities, may be subject to these same extreme forces and will require similar environmental criteria or design.

Criteria for design of offshore and coastal facilities may differ from their onshore counterparts. These differences can arise due to their unique design or mass distribution, to the fluid/structure or wind/structure interaction, to the placement of foundation elements in or on soft, fully saturated soils that can be subject to large hydrodynamic pressures, and to the lack of specific environmental data or the engineering experience that has been developed foremost onshore sites.

The objective of this workshop was to provide an international forum to exchange technical information and insight that will help engineers and public policymakers improve their ability to better mitigate and regulate damage to offshore, coastal, and port facilities due to extreme wind and seismic effects and possible resulting storm surges and tsunamis.

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