Floating and Submerged Structures (CIEM4230)
A 15 ECTS project-based course (around 20 students per year) on the design and assessment of floating and submerged civil engineering structures. Students work through metocean, hydrodynamic, mooring, structural, reliability, lifecycle and stakeholder analyses. Teaching team: Oriol Colomés, Frank Lange and Shagun Agarwal.
- Member of the original course development team from the first edition in 2023: learning objectives, course content and design deliverables.
- Lectures on taut and catenary mooring lines, wave loads, nonlinear effects and the finite-element formulation of structural problems.
- Developed the course’s Python library for mooring, hydrodynamic and structural analyses, with accompanying Jupyter notebooks. Students continue to use it in their MSc theses and internships.
- Co-developed an open JupyterBook version of the course with physical modelling exercises, through the TU Delft education project Beyond Open Interactive Textbooks (2025).