The Science of Large Floating Structures: Chien Ming Wang - Episode 07

Dear Members

I am pleased that Nathalie Mezza-Garcia of the Blue Frontiers did an interview with me on the floating structures and has uploaded on Youtube. I would like to invite you to watch the Science of Very Large Floating Structures HERE.​

“This episode is about engineering and materials of seasteads. The episode’s guest is Professor Wang Chien Ming. Professor Wang is the Blue Frontiers’ advisor in structural engineering of very large floating structures. In this very entertaining and insightful episode, Professor Wang describes many examples of already existing very large floating structures. Professor Wang and our seavangelesse also speak of the nanomaterials that can make seasteads, such as graphene oxide, one of Professor Wang’s subjects of research, and what implications it would have.” 

  • 1:14 Very Large Floating Structures
  • 2:00 Stability on seasteads
  • 2:30 Japanese 1 km floating structure
  • 3:55 The speed of building floating structures
  • 4:35 Coastal countries propensity to building floating structures
  • 5:00 Floating tradition in Japan
  • 5:40 Prices of floating structures
  • 6:25 Examples of floating structures in the world: floating hotels, restaurants, docks, surfing docks, pools for surfing with natural waves, prisons, bicycle tracks, boardwalks in China longer than Manhattan, floating golf course in Maldives, floating fuel storage facilities, 1 km floating skyscraper in Japan
  • 11:20 $680 thousand grant for floating forest project in Australia
  • 22:20 Floating beach
  • 24:00 Floating underwater bridge in Longyearbyen, Norway
  • 31:45 Types of floating structures
  • 33:25 Types of floating structures for seasteads (pontoon and semi-submersible)
  • 34:20 Station-keeping systems for seasteads
  • 41:30 Professor Wang’s patent on Gill Cells for disturbing the buoyancy force
  • 46:10 Tunnel liquid column dampers
  • 47:57 Carbon nanotubes and graphene oxide-reinforced concrete
  • 53:17 Glass-fiber reinforced polymers for reinforcing bars
  • 56:10 Professor Wang’s daily work
  • 49:55 Properties of nano-reinforced concrete
  • 59:07 Uses of nanocomposites on seasteads
  • 1:06:30 Floating structures to tackle present and future problems of humanity
  • 1:07:89 Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion
  • 1:10:55 Wave energy
  • 1:50:50 Freshwater lakes inside the ocean
  • 1:15:00 Farming fish on the ocean
  • 1:17:00 Underwater living
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