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Dr. Mingcai Xu

School of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center for Advanced Ship and Deep-Sea Exploration (CISSE)
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
and
Centre for Marine Technology and Ocean Engineering (CENTEC), Instituto Superior Tecnico
Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal

Education:
Mingcai Xu obtained his BSc in 2000 and MSc in 2003 at Wuhan University of Technology, and his PhD at the Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal

Selected Publications (For more see the link, Dr. Mingcai Xu):
Xu M.C., Guedes Soares C., 2011. Experimental study on the collapse strength of narrow stiffened panel, Proc 30th Int. Conf. on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, (OMAE 2011); ASME paper OMAE2011-50293.
Xu, M. and Soares, C.G., ‘Numerical study of the effect of geometry and boundary conditions on the collapse behaviour of short stiffened panels’, in: Guedes Soares, C. and Fricke, W. (Editors), Advances in Marine Structures, Taylor & Francis Group, London, UK, pp 229-237, 2011.
Mingcai Xu and C. Guedes Soares, “Ultimate strength of dented narrow stiffened panels subjected to compressive loads”, Proceedings of the ASME 31st International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE2012), July 1-6 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2012
Xu, M. and Soares, C.G., ‘Numerical 
assessment of experiments on the ultimate strength of stiffened panels’, Engineering Structures, Volume 45, pp 460-471, 2012. 

Mingcai Xu and Carlos Guedes Soares, “Assessment of the ultimate strength of narrow stiffened panel test specimens”, Thin-Walled Structures, Vol. 55, pp 11-21, 1 June 2012
Mingcai Xu, Y. Garbatov and C. Guedes Soares, “Ultimate strength assessment of a tanker hull based on experimentally developed master curves”, Journal of Marine Science Applications, Vol. 12, pp 127-139, 2013
Ming Cai Xu and C. Guedes Soares, “Experimental study on the collapse strength of wide stiffened panels”, Marine Structures, Vol. 30, pp 33-62, January 2013
Ming Cai Zu and C. Guedes Soares, “Experimental study on the collapse strength of narrow stiffened panels”, ASME Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, Vol. 135, No. 2, February 2013, Paper No. OMAE-11-1043
Ming Cai Xu and C. Guedes Soares, “Comparisons of calculations with experiments on the ultimate strength of wide stiffened panels”, Marine Structures, Vol. 31, pp 82-101, April 2013
Ming Cai Xu, Masahiko Fujikubo and C. Guedes Soares, “Influence of model geometry and boundary conditions on the ultimate strength of stiffened panels under uniaxial compressive loading”, Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, Vol. 135, No. 4, 041603, September 2013
Ming Cai Xu, Daisuke Yanagihara, Masahiko Fujikubo and Carlos Guedes Soares, “Influence of boundary conditions on the collapse behaviour of stiffened panels under combined loads”, Marine Structures, Vol. 34, pp 205-225, December 2013
Ming Cai Xu, Zhao Jun Song, Jin Pan and Carlos Guedes Soares, “Ultimate strength assessment of continuous stiffened panels under combined longitudinal compressive load and lateral pressure”, Ocean Engineering, Vol. 139, pp 39-53, July 2017
Ming Cai Xu, Zhao Jun Song and Jin Pan, “Study on influence of nonlinear finite element method models on ultimate bending moment for hull girder”, Thin-Walled Structures, Vol. 119, pp 282-295, October 2017
Ming Cai Xu, Zhao Jun Song, Jin Pan and C. Guedes Soares, “Study on the influence of the initial deflection and load combination on the collapse behaviour of continuous stiffened panels”, International Journal of Steel Structures, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp 1427-1442, December 2017
Ming Cai Xu, Zhao Jun Song, Bo Wen Zhang and Jin Pan, “Empirical formula for predicting ultimate strength of stiffened panel of ship structure under combined longitudinal compression and lateral loads”, Ocean Engineering, Vol. 162, pp 161-175, 15 August 2018

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