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Articles in Journals
 • Guedes Soares, C. and Garbatov, Y. (1996), “Fatigue Reliability of the Ship Hull Girder”, Marine Structures, Vol. 9, Issues 3-4, pp. 495-516

 • Guedes Soares, C. and Garbatov, Y. (1996), “Fatigue Reliability of the Ship Hull Girder Accounting for Inspection and Repair”, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Vol. 51, pp. 341-351

 • Guedes Soares, C. and Garbatov, Y. (1996), “Reliability of Maintained Ship Hulls Subjected to Corrosion", Journal of Ship Research, Vol. 40, Issue 3, pp. 235-243

 • Guedes Soares, C. and Garbatov, Y. (1997), “Reliability Assessment of Maintained Ship Hulls with Correlated Corroded Elements", Marine Structures, Vol. 10, pp. 629-653

 • Garbatov, Y. and Guedes Soares, C. (1998), “Fatigue Reliability of Maintained Welded Joints in the Side Shell of Tankers”, Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, Vol. 120, Issue 1, pp. 2-9

 • Guedes Soares, C. and Garbatov, Y. (1998), “Reliability of Maintained Ship Hull Girders Subjected to Corrosion and Fatigue", Structural Safety, Vol. 20, Issue 3, pp. 201-219

 • Guedes Soares, C. and Garbatov, Y. (1999), “Reliability of Maintained Hull Girders of Two Bulk Carrier Designs Subjected to Fatigue and Corrosion”, Ship and Ocean Technology, Vol. 3, No.1, pp. 27-41

 • Guedes Soares, C. and Garbatov, Y. (1999), “Reliability of Corrosion Protected and Maintained Ship Hulls Subjected to Corrosion and Fatigue", Journal of Ship Research, Vol. 43, Issue 2, pp. 65-78

 • Guedes Soares, C. and Garbatov, Y. (1999), “Reliability of Maintained, Corrosion Protected Plates Subjected to Non-Linear Corrosion and Compressive Loads", Marine Structures, Vol. 12, Issue 6, pp. 425-446

 • Guedes Soares, C. and Garbatov, Y. (1999), “Reliability of Maintained Hull Girders of Two Bulk Carrier Designs Subjected to Fatigue and Corrosion”, Ship and Ocean Technology, Vol. 3, Issue.1, pp. 27-41

 • Guedes Soares, C. and Garbatov, Y. (1999), “Reliability of Maintained Ship Hulls Subjected to Corrosion and Fatigue under Combined Loading", Journal of Constructional Steel Research, Special Issue on Reliability Design and Assessment of Steel Structures, Vol. 52, Issue 1, pp. 93-115

 • Garbatov, Y. and Guedes Soares, C. (2001), “Cost and Reliability Based Strategies for Fatigue Maintenance Planning of Floating Structures", Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Vol 73, Issue 3, pp. 293-301

 • Garbatov, Y. and Guedes Soares, C. (2002), “Bayesian Updating in the Reliability Assessment of Maintained Floating Structures”, Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, Vol. 124, pp. 139-145

 • Garbatov, Y. and Guedes Soares, C. (2004), "Influence of Steel Strength on the Fatigue Reliability of Welded Structural Components", International Journal of Fatigue, Vol. 26, pp. 753-762

 • Guedes Soares, C., Garbatov, Y., Zayed, A. and Wang, G. (2005) , “Non-linear Corrosion Model for Immersed Steel Plates Accounting for Environmental Factors”, Transactions of SNAME, Vol.113, pp. 306-329

 • Sun, H.-H. and Guedes Soares, C. (2006), "Reliability-Based Inspection for Corroded Ship-Type FPSO Hulls", Journal of Ship Research, Vol. 50, Issue 2, pp. 171-180

 • Garbatov, Y., Guedes Soares, C. and Wang, G. (2007), “Non-Linear Time Dependent Corrosion Wastage of Deck Plates of Ballast and Cargo Tanks of Tankers”, Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, 2007, Vol. 129, Issue 1, pp. 48-55.

 • Caldeira Duarte, J. and Guedes Soares, C. (2007), “Optimization of the Preventive Maintenance Plan of a Series Components System with Weibull Hazard Function”, Reliability: Theory & Applications (Special Issue), Vol. 2, N.º 3-4, pp. 33-39

 • Teixeira, A.P., Guedes Soares, C., Netto, T.A. and Estefen, S.F. (2008), “Reliability of Pipelines with Corrosion Defects”, International Journal of Pressure Vessel and Piping, Vol. 85, pp. 228-237

 • Teixeira, A.P. and Guedes Soares, C. (2008), “Ultimate Strength of Plates with Random Fields of Corrosion”, Structure and Infrastructure Engineering, Vol. 4, Issue 5, pp. 363-370

 • Teixeira, A.P. and Guedes Soares, C. (2008), “Simulation of Inspections on Ship Plates with Random Corrosion Patterns”, Journal of Ship Production, Vol. 24, Issue 3, pp. 168-175

 • Garbatov, Y. and Guedes Soares, C. (2008), "Corrosion Wastage Modelling of Deteriorated Bulk Carrier Decks", International Shipbuilding Progress, Vol. 55, pp. 109-125

 • Guedes Soares, C., Garbatov, Y., Zayed, A. and Wang, G. (2008), "Corrosion Wastage Model for the Inside of Ship Crude Oil Tanks", Corrosion Science, Vol. 50, Issue 11, pp. 3095-3106

 • Garbatov, Y. and Guedes Soares, C. (2009), "Structural maintenance planning based on historical data of corroded deck plates of tankers", Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Vol. 94, pp. 1806-1817

 • Guedes Soares, C., Garbatov, Y., Zayed, A. and Wang, G. (2009) , "Influence of Environmental Factors on Corrosion of Ship Structures in Marine Atmosphere", Corrosion Science, Vol. 51, pp. 2014-2026

 • Teixeira, A.P., Zayed, A. and Guedes Soares, C. (2010), “Reliability of Pipelines with Non-uniform Corrosion”, Journal of Ocean and Ship Technology, Vol. 1(1), pp.12-30

 • Guedes Soares, C., Garbatov, Y. and Zayed, A. (2011), “Effect of environmental factors on steel plate corrosion under marine immersion conditions”, Corrosion Engineering Science and Technology, Vol 46, Nº. 4, pp. 524-541

 • Garbatov, Y. and Guedes Soares, C. (2011), “Fatigue Reliability Assessment of Welded Joints of Very Fast Ferry Accounting for Vehicle Loads”, Int J Maritime Engineering (RINA Transactions Part A), Vol. 153(Part A), pp. A231-A241

 • Feng, G.Q., Garbatov, Y. and Guedes Soares, C. (2012), "Fatigue reliability of a stiffened panel subjected to correlated crack growth", Structural Safety, Volume: 36-37, pp. 39-46

 • Feng, G.Q., Garbatov, Y. and Guedes Soares, C. (2012), “Probabilistic Model of the Growth of Correlated Cracks in a Stiffened Panel”, Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Vol. 84, pp. 83-95

 • Huang, W., Wang, T-J. Garbatov, Y. and Guedes Soares, C. (2012), “Fatigue reliability assessment of riveted lap joint of aircraft structures”, International Journal of Fatigue, Vol. 43, pp. 54-61

 • Silva, J.E., Garbatov, Y. and Guedes Soares, C. (2013), “Ultimate strength assessment of rectangular steel plates subjected to a random non-uniform corrosion degradation”, Engineering Structures, Vol. 52, pp. 295-305

 • Feng, G.Q., Garbatov, Y. and Guedes Soares, C. (2013), “Fatigue reliability of deck structures subjected to correlated crack growth”, Journal of Marine Science and Application, Vol. 12, pp. 413-421

 • Huang, W., Garbatov, Y. and Guedes Soares, C. (2013), “Fatigue Reliability Assessment of a Complex Welded Structure Subjected to Multiple Cracks”, Engineering Structures, Volume 56, pp. 868-879

 • Huang, W., Wang, T-J., Garbatov, Y. and Guedes Soares, C. (2013), “Hull Girder Reliability using a Monte Carlo Based Simulation Method”, International Journal of Fatigue, Volume 47, pp. 106-114

 • Zayed, A., Garbatov, Y. and Guedes Soares, C. (2013), “Reliabiliy of Ship Hulls Subjected to Corrosion and Maintenance”, Structural Safety, Volume 43, pp. 1-11

 • Silva, J.E., Garbatov, Y. and Guedes Soares, C. (2014), “Reliability Assessment of a Steel Plate Subjected to Distributed and Localized Corrosion Wastage” (In Portuguese), Engineering Structures, Vol. 59, pp. 13-20

 • Huang, W., Garbatov, Y. and Guedes Soares, C. (2014), “Fatigue reliability of a web frame subjected to random non-uniform corrosion wastage”, Structural Safety, Vol. 48, pp. 51-62.

 • Huang, W., Garbatov, Y. and Guedes Soares, C. (2014), “Fatigue reliability assessment of correlated welded web-frame joints”, Journal of Marine Science and Application, Vol. 13, pp. 23-31

 • Santos, F.P., Teixeira, A.P. and Guedes Soares, C. (2015), “Modelling and simulation of the operation and maintenance of offshore wind turbines”, Journal of Risk and Reliability, Vol. 229(5), pp. 385-393

 • Garbatov, Y. and Guedes Soares, C. (2016), “Reliability of deteriorated marine structures based on measured data”, International Journal of Maritime Engineering, Vol.158, pp. A-281 - A-288

 • Garbatov, Y. and Guedes Soares, C. (2017), “Fatigue Reliability of Dented Pipeline based on Limited Experimental Data”, International Journal of Press Vessels Piping, Vol. 155, pp. 15-26

 • Dong, Y., Teixeira, A.P. and Guedes Soares, C. (2018), “Time-variant fatigue reliability assessment of welded joints based on the PHI2 and response surface methods”, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Vo. 177, pp. 120-130

 • Zayed, A., Garbatov, Y. and Guedes Soares, C. (2018), “Corrosion degradation of ship hull steel plates accounting for local environmental conditions”, Ocean Engineering, Vol. 163, pp. 299–306

 • Kang, J.C., Sobral, J. and Guedes Soares, C. (2019), “Review of condition-based maintenance strategies for offshore wind energy”, Journal of Marine Science and Application, Vol. 18(1), pp. 1-16

 • Palencia, O.G., Teixeira, A.P. and Guedes Soares, C. (2019), “Safety of pipelines subjected to deterioration processes modelled through Dynamic Bayesian Networks”, Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, Vol. 141, pp. 011602-1 - 011602-11

 • Teixeira, A.P., Palencia, O.G. and Guedes Soares, C. (2019), “Reliability analysis of pipelines with local corrosion defects under external pressure”, Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, Vol. 141, pp. 051601-1 - 051601-10

 • Kang, J.C., Wang, L., Li, MX., Sun, L.P. and Jin, P. (2019), “Failure Statistics Analysis Based on Bayesian Theory: A Study of FPSO Internal Turret Leakage”, China Ocean Engineering, Vol. 33(1), pp. 14-25

 • Dong, Y., Teixeira, A.P. and Guedes Soares, C. (2020), , “Application of adaptive surrogate models in time-variant fatigue reliability assessment of welded joints with surface cracks”, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Vol. 195, pp. 106730-1 - 106730-14

 • Garbatov, Y. (2020), “Risk-based corrosion allowance of oil tankers”, Ocean Engineering, Vol. 213, pp. 107753 (11 pages)

 • Dong, Y., Garbatov, Y. and Guedes Soares, C. (2021), “Improved effective notch strain approach for fatigue reliability assessment of load-carrying fillet welded cruciform joints in low and high cycle fatigue”, Marine Structures, Vol. 75, 102849 (20 pages)

 • Dong, Y., Garbatov, Y. and Guedes Soares, C. (2021), “Strain-based fatigue reliability assessment of welded joints in ship structures”, Marine Structures, Vol. 75, 102878 (22 pages)

 • Zima, B., Woloszyk, K. and Garbatov, Y. (2022), “Corrosion degradation monitoring of ship stiffened plates using guided wave phase velocity and constrained convex optimization method”, Ocean Engineering, Vol. 253, 111318.

 • Zima, B., Woloszyk, K. and Garbatov, Y. (2022), “Corrosion degradation monitoring of ship stiffened plates using guided wave phase velocity and constrained convex optimization method”, Ocean Engineering, Vol. 253, 111318.

 • Woloszyk, K., Garbatov, Y. and Klosowski, P. (2022), “Stress-strain model of lower corroded steel plates of normal strength for fitness-for-purpose analyses”, Construction and Building Material, Vol. 323, 126560.

 • Woloszyk, K., Garbatov, Y. and Klosowski, P. (2022), “Stress-strain model of lower corroded steel plates of normal strength for fitness-for-purpose analyses”, Construction and Building Material, Vol. 323, 126560.

 • Zima, B., Woloszyk, K. and Garbatov, Y. (2022), “Experimental and numerical identification of corrosion degradation of ageing structural components”, Ocean Engineering, Vol. 258, 111739.

 • Zima, B., Woloszyk, K. and Garbatov, Y. (2022), “Experimental and numerical identification of corrosion degradation of ageing structural components”, Ocean Engineering, Vol. 258, 111739.

 • Yeter, B., Garbatov, Y. and Guedes Soares, C. (2022), “Analysis of life extension performance metrics for optimal management of offshore wind assets”, Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, Vol. 144(5), 052001.

 • Yeter, B., Garbatov, Y. and Guedes Soares, C. (2022), “Analysis of life extension performance metrics for optimal management of offshore wind assets”, Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, Vol. 144(5), 052001.

 • Dong, Y., Garbatov, Y. and Guedes Soares, C. (2022), “Review on uncertainties in fatigue loads and fatigue life of ships and offshore structures”, Ocean Engineering, Vol. 264, 112514.



Articles in Books
 • Guedes Soares, C. and Garbatov, Y. (1997), “The Fatigue Reliability of Ship Hulls with Random Limit State”, Advances in Safety and Reliability, Guedes Soares, C. (Ed.), Pergamon, Vol. 2, pp. 1467-1476

 • Guedes Soares, C. and Garbatov, Y. (1998), “Non-linear Time Dependent Model of Corrosion for the Reliability Assessment of Maintained Structural Components”, Safety and Reliability, Lydersen, S., Hansen G. K. and Sandtorv, H. A. (Eds), Norway, Balkema, Vol. II, pp. 929-936

 • Guedes Soares, C. and Garbatov, Y. (1998), “Reliability of Plate Elements Subjected to Compressive Loads and Accounting for Corrosion and Repair”, Structural Safety and Reliability, Shiraishi, Shinozuka & Wen (Eds.), A.A. Balkema, Japan, pp. 2013-2020

 • Guedes Soares, C. and Garbatov, Y. (1999), “Reliability Based Fatigue Design of Maintaned Welded Joints in the Side Shell of Tankers”, Fatigue Design and Reliability, Marquis, G. e Solin, J. (Eds.), Amsterdam, Publication 23, Elsevier, pp. 13-27

 • Guedes Soares, C. and Garbatov, Y. (2000), “Reliability of Maintained, Corrosion Protected Plate Subjected to Non-Linear Corrosion and Biaxial Compressive Loads”, Applications of Statistics and Probability (ICASP8-99), Melchers, R.O. and Stewart, Mark G. (Eds.), Balkema, pp. 345-352

 • Garbatov, Y., Faúlha, A. and Guedes Soares, C. (2000), “Fatigue Strength of Cracked Structural Details” (In Portuguese), The Sea and the Challenges Future, Guedes Soares, C. e Beirão Reis, J. (Eds.), Edições Salamandra, Lda., Lisbon, pp. 247-262

 • Bruce, G.J., Duan, M., Egorov, G.V., Folso, R., Fujimoto, Y., Garbatov, Y., Le Hire, J.-C., Shin, B.-C. and Vårdal, O.T. (2003), “Inspection and Monitoring”, Ship and Offshore Structures Congress (ISSC 2003), 11-15 August, San Diego, USA, Vol. 2, Committee, V. 2, pp. 37-69

 • Garbatov, Y. and Guedes Soares, C. (2005), “Reliability based maintenance planning of structures” (In Portuguese), Analysis and Management of Risk, Safety and Reliability, Edições Salamandra, Lda., Guedes Soares, C., Teixeira, A. P. and Antão, P. (Eds.), Lisbon, Vol. II, pp. 485-500

 • Teixeira, A.P., Luís, R.M. and Guedes Soares, C. (2005), “Simulation of random corrosion fields in metallic components” (In Portuguese), Analysis and Management of Risk, Safety and Reliability, Guedes Soares, C., Teixeira, A.P. and Antão, P. (Eds.), Edições Salamandra, Lda., Lisbon, Vol. II, pp. 451-468

 • Zayed, A., Garbatov, Y., Guedes Soares, C. and Wang, G. (2005), “Environmental Factors Affecting the Time Dependent Corrosion Wastage of Marine Structures”, Maritime Transportation and Exploitaton of Ocean and Coastal Resources, Guedes Soares, C., Garbatov, Y. and Fonseca, N. (Eds.), Taylor & Francis Group, London, U.K., Vol. 1, pp. 589-598

 • Caldeira Duarte, J. and Guedes Soares, C. (2005), “Re-assessment of the Reliability of Systems subject to Inspections” (In Portuguese), Analysis and Management of Risk, Safety and Reliability (in Portuguese), Guedes Soares, C., Teixeira, A. P. and Antão, P. (Eds.), Edições Salamandra, Lda., Lisbon, Vol. II, pp. 577-590

 • Teixeira, A.P. e Guedes Soares, C. (2006), “Ultimate Strength of Rectangular Plates with Random Fields of Corrosion”, Advances in Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems, 2006, Sorensen, J. D. and Frangopol, D. M. (Eds.), Taylor & Francis Group, London, U.K., pp. 179-186

 • Paik, J.K., Brennan, F., Carlsen, C.A., Daley, C., Garbatov, Y., Ivanov, L., Rizzo, C.M., Simonsen, B.C., Yamamoto, N. and Zhuang, H.Z. (2006), “Condition Assessment of Aged Ships”, Ship and Offshore Structures Congress (ISSC 2006), Frize, P. A. and Shenoi, R. A. (Eds.), 20-25 August 2006, Southampton - UK, Vol. 2, Committee V.6, pp. 265-315

 • Hussein, A.W., Teixeira, A.P. and Guedes Soares, C. (2006), “Reliability Assessment of the Burst Strength of Corroded Pipelines”, Safety and Reliability for Managing Risk, C. Guedes Soares & E. Zio (Eds.), Lisbon-Portugal, Taylor & Francis, Vol. 2, pp. 1467-1474

 • Zayed, A., Garbatov, Y. and Guedes Soares, C. (2007), “Factors Affecting the Non-destructive Inspection of Marine Structures”, Advancements in Marine Structures, Guedes Soares, C. and Das, P. K. (Eds.), Taylor & Francis Group, London, U.K., pp. 565-576

 • Panayotova, M., Garbatov, Y. and Guedes Soares, C. (2008) , “Corrosion Monitoring of Ship Hulls” , Maritime Industry, Ocean Engineering and Coastal Resources, 2008, Guedes Soares, C. and Kolev, P. (Eds.), Taylor & Francis Group, London, U.K., pp. 263-270

 • Gaspar, B., Garbatov, Y. and Guedes Soares, C. (2009), “Effect of uncertain weld shape on the structural hot-spot stress distribution”, Analysis and Design of Marine Structures, Guedes Soares, C. and Das, P. K. (Eds.), Taylor & Francis Group, London, U.K., pp. 267-278

 • Carvalho, I.S., Antão, P. and Guedes Soares, C. (2009), “Modelling of environmental impacts of ships’ dismantling”, Analysis and Design of Marine Structures, Guedes Soares, C. and Das, P. K. (Eds.), Taylor & Francis Group, London, U.K., pp. 533-542

 • Domzalick, P., Skalski, I., Guedes Soares, C. and Garbatov, Y. (2009), “Large scale corrosion tests”, Analysis and Design of Marine Structures, Guedes Soares, C. and Das, P. K. (Eds.), Taylor & Francis Group, London, U.K., pp. 193-198

 • Garbatov, Y. and Guedes Soares, C. (2009), “Corrosion wastage statistics and maintenance planning of corroded hull structures of bulk carriers”, Analysis and Design of Marine Structures. Guedes Soares, C. and Das, P. K. (Eds.), Taylor & Francis Group, London, U.K., pp. 215-222

 • Garbatov, Y. and Guedes Soares, C. (2010), "Maintenance planning for the decks of bulk carriers and tankers", Safety, Reliability and Risk of Structures, Infrastructures and Engineering Systems, Furuta, Frangopol & Shinozuka (Eds.), Taylor & Francis Group, London, pp. 3517-3524

 • Garbatov, Y. and Guedes Soares, C. (2010), “Risk based maintenance of deteriorated ship structures accounting for historical data”, Advanced Ship Design for Pollution Prevention - Fatigue Reliability and Rational Inspection Planning, Guedes Soares, C. and Parunov, J. (Eds.), Taylor & Francis Group, London, U.K., pp. 131-147

 • Garbatov, Y. and Guedes Soares, C. (2015), “Risk-based maintenance of ageing ship structures”, Developments in Maritime Transportation and Exploitation of Sea Resources, Guedes Soares, C. and López Peña F. (Eds.). Francis & Taylor Group, London, UK, pp. 919-926

 • Yeter, B., Garbatov, Y. and Guedes Soares, C. (2015), “Fatigue reliability of an offshore wind turbine supporting structure accounting for inspection and repair”, Analysis and Design of Marine Structures, Guedes Soares, C. & Shenoi R.A. (Eds.), Taylor & Francis, London, UK, pp.737-747

 • Yeter, B., Garbatov, Y. and Guedes Soares, C. (2015), “Fatigue reliability assesment of an offshore supporting structure”, Maritime Technology and Engineering, Guedes Soares, C. & Santos T.A. (Eds.), Taylor & Francis Group, London, UK, pp. 671-680

 • Garbatov, Y., Dong, Y., Rorup, J., Vhanmane, S. and Villavicencio, R. (2018), “Fatigue reliability of butt-welded joints based on spectral fatigue damage assessment”, Maritime Transportation and Harvesting of Sea Resources, Guedes Soares, C. & Teixeira A.P. (Eds.), Taylor & Francis Group, London, UK, pp. 611-616

 • Yeter, B., Garbatov, Y. and Guedes Soares, C. (2018), “Probabilistic life-cycle assessment for offshore wind turbines”, Maritime Transportation and Harvesting of Sea Resources, Guedes Soares, C. & Teixeira A.P. (Eds.), Taylor & Francis Group, London, UK, pp. 1229-1237

 • Kang, J.C., Guedes Soares, C., Sun, L.P., Lu, Y. and Sobral, J. (2019) , “An opportunistic condition-based maintenance policy for offshore wind farm”, Advances in Renewable Energies Offshore, Guedes Soares, C., (Ed.), Taylor & Francis, London, UK

 • Teixeira, A.P. and Guedes Soares, C. (2021), “Semi-empirical based response surface approach for reliability evaluation of steel plates with random fields of corrosion”, 18th International Probabilistic Workshop (IPW2020), Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering 153, Matos, J. C. et al., (Eds.), Springer Nature Switzerland AG, pp. 715-732

 • Vicente, L., Lomelino, P., Carreira, F., Campos, F.M., Mendes, M.J.G.C. and Calado, J.M.F. (2022), “A photorealistic digital twin for a tank truck washing robotic system”, Collaborative Networks in Digitalization and Society 5.0 (PRO-VE 2022), L.M. Camarinha-Matos, A.O. Xavier Boucher & A. Luis Osório (Ed.), pp. 57-66.



Articles in Conferences
 • Guedes Soares, C. and Garbatov, Y. (1993), “Fatigue Reliability of the Ship Hull Girder”, Proceedings of the VI Congress International Maritime Association of Mediterranean, Varna, pp. 121-134

 • Guedes Soares, C. and Garbatov, Y. (1996), “Influence of Inspection and Repair on the Fatigue Reliability of Oil Tankers", Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering (OMAE’96), Guedes Soares, C. et al. (Eds.), ASME, New York, USA, Vol. II, pp. 245-254

 • Garbatov, Y. and Guedes Soares, C. (1997), “Fatigue Reliability of Maintained Welded Joints in the Side Shell of Tankers”, Proceedings of the 16th International ConferenProceedings of the 16th International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering (OMAE’97), Guedes Soares, C. et al (Eds.), ASME, New York, USA, Vol. II, pp. 219-228

 • Guedes Soares, C. and Garbatov, Y. (1997), “Reliability of Plate Element Subjected to Non-Linear Corrosion and Compressive Loads”, Proceedings of the Colloquium of the European Mechanics Society, EUROMECH 372, Reliability in Non-Linear Structural Mechanics, Ditlevsen, O. D. and Mitteau, J. C. (Eds.), pp. 1-15

 • Guedes Soares, C. and Garbatov, Y. (1998), “Reliability Based Fatigue Design of Maintaned Welded Joints in the Side Shell of Tankers”, Proceedings of the Fatigue Design ’98 Conference, Vol.1, pp. 25-38

 • Guedes Soares, C. and Garbatov, Y. (1998), “Minimum Fatigue Reliability of Maintained Ship Structures", Proceedings of the 8th IFIP WG 7.5 Working Conference, Krakov, Poland, 11-13 May, pp. 153-163

 • Guedes Soares, C. (1999), “Time Varying Reliability of Structures with Degrading Performance", Proceedings of Safety and Reliability National Conference (KONBIN’99), Zakopane, Poland, 22-25 November, Vol 3, pp. 189

 • Guedes Soares, C. (2000), “Dealing with Strength Degradation in Structural Reliability", Proceedings of the Workshop “Risk Based Design of Civil Structures”, Delft, Netherlands, 11 January, pp. 23-41

 • Guedes Soares, C. and Garbatov, Y. (2000), “Reliability of Maintained Marine Structures”, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Marine Science and Technology (Black Sea´00), Varna, Bulgaria, 9-11 November, pp. NA-II-7

 • Smiljko, R., Garbatov, Y. and Guedes Soares, C. (2000) , “Finite Element Study of Stress Concentration Factors in Ship Knuckle Details”, Proceedings of the 3rd International Congress of Croatian Society of Mechanics, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 28-30 September, pp. 367-374

 • Garbatov, Y. and Guedes Soares, C. (2001), “Bayesian Updating of the Reliability of Maintained Floating Structures”, Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering (OMAE’01), 3-8 June, 2001, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ASME, New York, Paper OMAE2001/S&R-2176

 • Guedes Soares, C. (2001), “Time Varying Reliability of Structures with Degrading Performance”, Proceedings Safety and Reliability International Conference (KONBIN’01), 22-25 May, Szczyrk, Poland, pp. 111-130

 • Garbatov, Y., Rudan, S. and Guedes Soares, C. (2002), “Application of the Spectral Approach for Fatigue Analysis of Marine Structural Details”, Proceedings of the 10th International Congress of the International Maritime Association of the Mediterranean (IMAM´02), 13-17 May, Rethymno, Crete-Hellas

 • Guedes Soares, C. and Garbatov, Y. (2002), “Reliability of Deteriorated Steel Structures”, AMAS Course on Reliability-Based Optimization (RBO'02), 23-25 September, Warsaw, Poland

 • Garbatov, Y., Teixeira, A.P. and Guedes Soares, C. (2004), “Fatigue Reliability Assessment of a Converted FPSO Hull”, Proceedings of the OMAE Specialty Conference on Integrity of Floating Production, Storage & Offloading (FPSO) Systems, ASME, New York, USA, Paper OMAE-FPSO'04-0035

 • Panayotova, M., Garbatov, Y. and Guedes Soares, C. (2004), “Factors Influencing Corrosion of Steel Structural Elements Immersed in Seawater”, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Marine Science and Technology (BlackSea´04), 7-9 October, Varna, Bulgaria, pp. 280-286

 • Panayotova, M., Garbatov, Y. and Guedes Soares, C. (2004), “Factors Influencing Atmospheric Corrosion and Corrosion in Closed Spaces of Marine Steel Structural”, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Marine Science and Technology (BlackSea´04), 7-9 October, Varna, Bulgaria, pp. 286-292

 • Garbatov, Y., Vodkadzhiev, I. and Guedes Soares, C. (2004), “Corrosion Wastage Assessment of Deck Structures of Bulk Carriers”, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Marine Science and Technology (BlackSea´04), 7-9 October, Varna, Bulgaria, pp. 24-32

 • Pardi, L., Onoufriou, T., Shetty, N. and Guedes Soares, C. (2005), “Application of Risk and Reliability to the Management of Bridges”, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Bridge Management, April, United Kingdom

 • Garbatov, Y., Guedes Soares, C. and Wang, G. (2005), “Non-Linear Time Dependent Corrosion Wastage of Deck Plates of Ballast and Cargo Tanks of Tankers” , Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering (OMAE´05), 12-17 June, 2005, Halkidiki, Greece, ASME, New York, Paper OMAE2005-67579

 • Teixeira, A.P. and Guedes Soares, C. (2006), “Probabilistic Modelling of the Ultimate Strength of Plates with Random Fields of Corrosion”, Proceedings of the 5th Computational Stochastic Mechanics Conference (5CSM), 21-23 June, Rhodes-Greece, Spanos, P. D. (Ed.)

 • Chakarov, K., Garbatov, Y. and Guedes Soares, C. (2006), “Analysis of Stress Concentration Factors of an Imperfect Welded Deck Structure”, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Marine Sciences and Technologies (Black Sea´06), 25-27 September, Varna, Bulgaria, pp. 28-35

 • A. Zayed, Y. Garbatov and C. Guedes Soares, “Corrosion Modelling of Single Hull Crude Oil Tanker subjected to Complex Deterioration Environment", Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering (OMAE´07), 10-15 June, 2007, San Diego, USA, ASME, New York, Paper OMAE2007-29741

 • Garbatov, Y. and Guedes Soares, C. (2007), “Structural Reliability of Ship Hull Subjected to Non-linear Time Dependent Deterioration, Inspection and Repair”, Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Practical Design of Ships and Other Floating Structures (PRADS´07), Houston, Texas, USA

 • Teixeira, A.P. and Guedes Soares, C. (2007), “Simulation of Inspections on Ship Plates with Random Corrosion Patterns”, Proceeding of the 10th International Symposium on Practical Design of Ships and Other Floating Structures (PRADS´07), Houston, Texas, United States of America

 • Caldeira Duarte, J. and Guedes Soares, C. (2007), "Optimization of the Preventive Maintenance Plan of a Series Components System with Weibull Hazard Function", Proceedings of the Summer Safety and Reliability Seminars, Sopot-Poland

 • Zayed, A., Garbatov, Y. and Guedes Soares, C. (2007), “Corrosion Modelling of Single Hull Crude Oil Tanker subjected to Complex Deterioration Environment”, Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering (OMAE´07), 10-15 June, 2007, San Diego, USA, ASME, New York, Paper OMAE2007-29741

 • Zayed, A., Garbatov, Y. and Guedes Soares, C. (2008), “Nondestructive Corrosion Inspection Modelling of Tanker Structures”, Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering (OMAE´08), 15-20 June, Estoril, Portugal, ASME, New York, Paper OMAE2008- 57500

 • Jiang, X. and Guedes Soares, C. (2008), “Assessment of the Uncertainty in Corrosion Models for Ship Steels”, Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering (OMAE´08), 15-20 June, 2008, Estoril, Portugal, ASME, New York, Paper OMAE2008-58052.

 • Parunov, J., Mage, P. and Guedes Soares, C. (2008), “Hull-Girder Reliability of an Aged Oil Tanker”, Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering (OMAE´08), 15-20 June, Estoril, Portugal, ASME, New York, Paper OMAE2008-57183

 • Wang, G.,5.3.75 Wang, G., Boon, B., Brennan, F.P., Garbatov, Y., Ji, C., Parunov, J., Rahman, T. A., Rizzo, C., Rouhan, A., Shin, C.H. and Yamamoto, N. (2009), “Committee V.6 - Condition Assessment of Aged Ships and Offshore Structures”, Proceedings of the 17th International Ship and Offshore Structures Congress (ISSC), 16-21 August, 2009, Jang, C. D. and Hong, S. Y. (Eds.), Seoul National University, Vol. 2, pp. 309-365

 • Garbatov, Y. and Guedes Soares, C. (2009), “Uncertainty Assessment of Fatigue Damage of Welded Ship Structural Joints”, Proceedings of the International Conference in Ocean Engineering (ICOE´09), 1-5 February, Chennai, India

 • Garbatov, Y. and Guedes Soares, C. (2010), “Assessment of the Uncertainties Introduced by different Fatigue Damage Models for Ship Structural Details”, Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering (OMAE´10),6-11 June, Shanghai, China, ASME, New York, Paper OMAE2010-20766

 • Mirciu, I., Garbatov, Y., Guedes Soares, C. and Domnisoru, L. (2012) , “Fatigue Assessment of Damaged LPG Carrier”, 11th International Conference on Marine Sciences and Technologies (Black Sea 2012), 4-6 October, Varna, Bulgaria

 • Lampreia, S. Vairinhos, V., Dias, J. and Requeijo, J. (2013), “Vibrations detection and analysis in Equipments with MCUSUM charts and frequencies graphs””, 4th International Conference on Integrity, Reliability and Failure (IRF 2013), 23-27 June, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal

 • Garbatov, Y. and Guedes Soares, C. (2015), “Reliability of deteriorated marine structures based on measured data”, Proceedings of 2015 International Conference on Quality, Reliability, Risk, Maitenance, and Safety Engineering (QR2MSE 2015), 21-24 July, Beijing, China

 • Yeter, B., Garbatov, Y. and Guedes Soares, C. (2016), “Reliability of offshore wind turbine support structures subjected to extreme wave-induced loads and defects”, Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE 2016), 19-24 June, Busan, South Korea

 • Palencia, O.G., Teixeira, A.P. and Guedes Soares, C. (2017), “Modelling of deterioration processes in ship structures through Dynamic Bayesian Networks”, 12th International Conference on Structural Safety & Reliability (ICOSSAR 2017), 6-10 August, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria, pp. 1936-1946

 • Palencia, O.G., Teixeira, A.P. and Guedes Soares, C. (2017) , “Safety of pipelines subjected to deterioration processes modelled through Dynamic Bayesian Networks”, Proceedings of the ASME 2016 36th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE17), 25-30 June, Trondheim, Norway

 • Dong, Y., Garbatov, Y. and Guedes Soares, C. (2018), “Fatigue reliability assessment of fillet welded cruciform joints based on the fatigue notch factor and the local strain approach”, Proceedings of the ASME 2018 37th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE 2018), 17-22 June, Madrid, Spain

 • Dong, Y., Garbatov, Y. and Guedes Soares, C. (2018), “Strain-based fatigue reliability analysis of a load-carrying fillet welded cruciform joint”, Proceedings of the ASME 2018 37th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE 2018), 17-22 June, Madrid, Spain

 • Garbatov, Y. and Guedes Soares, C. (2018), “Corrosion margins for redundant ship structures”, Proceedings of the ASME 2018 37th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE 2018), 17-22 June, Madrid, Spain



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