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Ten first-author SCI papers written from a single research programme on scour assessment of offshore wind turbine tripod suction bucket foundations. One foundation type, one instrumented turbine, five research communities (geotechnics, structural dynamics, aeroelastics, statistical SHM, decision theory), and a single integrated argument.

The portfolio arc (post-consolidation 2026-04-18 — V1 and V2 merged into V):

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    J11["<b>THEORY</b><br/>J11 · Vesic generalisation"]:::theory
    J2["<b>NUMERICAL</b><br/>J2 · 3D FE-calibrated Winkler"]:::num
    J3["<b>EXPERIMENTAL</b><br/>J3 · Centrifuge · saturation + backfill"]:::exp
    Op3["<b>SOFTWARE</b><br/>Op³ · open-source framework"]:::soft
    J5["<b>PROBABILISTIC</b><br/>J5 · Monte Carlo 1 794 runs"]:::prob
    V["<b>FIELD + STATISTICS</b><br/>V · 32-month monitoring + state-function"]:::field
    B["<b>FEATURES</b><br/>B · Buckingham-Pi feature ranking"]:::feat
    A["<b>DECISION</b><br/>A · three-channel Bayesian"]:::dec
    E["<b>TRANSFER</b><br/>E · physics-informed encoder"]:::trans

    J11 ==> J2 ==> J3 ==> Op3 ==> J5 ==> V ==> B ==> A ==> E

    click J11 "J11/"
    click J2 "J2/"
    click J3 "J3/"
    click Op3 "Op3/"
    click J5 "J5/"
    click V "V/"
    click B "B/"
    click A "A/"
    click E "E/"

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Status table

Paper Title (short) Journal Status
J1 Centrifuge CPT bridge (Year 1) Ocean Engineering Published 2025
J2 3D FE-calibrated Winkler model Ocean Engineering Under revision (R2)
J3 Centrifuge: saturation and backfill effects Ocean Engineering Under revision (R1)
V Field monitoring + state-function compensation (consolidated) Engineering Structures (primary) In prep
J5 Monte Carlo 3D limit analysis Computers and Geotechnics In prep
B Buckingham-Pi cross-domain scour detection Computers and Geotechnics In prep
A Three-channel Bayesian decision Reliability Engineering and System Safety In prep
E Physics-informed encoder Data-Centric Engineering In prep
Op3 Op³ framework (software paper) Advances in Engineering Software In prep
J11 Vesic cavity-expansion generalisation Computers and Geotechnics In prep

How the papers connect

Each paper produces something the next consumes:

  • J11 justifies the spring shape → J2 uses it.
  • J2 produces power-law coefficients (PL-1) → V, A, and Op3 consume them.
  • J3 validates J2 in the centrifuge → cross-checks PL-1 under saturation.
  • Op3 automates the computation → J5 runs 1,794 Monte Carlo realisations on it.
  • J5 produces the capacity distribution → A prices the decision.
  • V produces the field detection threshold and the state-function compensation method → A fuses the residual stream.
  • B ranks the features → V and A pick from the ranking.
  • A closes the loop from measurement to maintenance action.
  • E compresses J5's database into a transferable latent representation.

About the consolidation (2026-04-18)

The originally planned V1 (JCSHM application) + V2 (SHM SAGE theory) split was collapsed into a single paper V targeting Engineering Structures. The MSSP rejection that triggered the rework cited methodology clarity (Reviewer 1) and novelty positioning (Reviewer 2) — both fixable in one paper. See Reviews / V for the decision rationale and trade-off analysis. The change reduces the dissertation to ten first-author papers (from the previous eleven) and saves roughly 1.5 weeks of writing and coordination.

See the dissertation gap analysis note for the defensive / offensive / constructive framing behind each paper, and the claim-driven workflow note for how these papers are being written.