The aim of this COTech conference is to provide a platform for academics and professionals in application of computational methods with focus on, but not limited to, Offshore Technology to come together, present their recent works in the area, exchange ideas, and establish professional networks. It will serve as a forum for a multidisciplinary research and
brings together Norwegian and invited foreign researchers to enable
them exchange their research experience and disseminate their results within application of computational methods in design, analysis and simulation of offshore systems and structures.

Contributions are invited under the following five selected main topics and other relevant topics.
1. Wind Engineering
Topic coordinator: Prof. Jasna B. Jakobsen
E-mail: jasna.b.jakobsen@uis.no
2. CFD in Subsea and Marine Technology (Topic coordinator: Prof. Muk Chen Ong)
- Fluid-structure interaction
- Marine technology and operations,
- Subsea engineering,
- Offshore wind energy simulation

3. Marine Operation for Cold Climate (Topic coordinator: Prof. Ove Tobias Gudmestad)
- Pipeline design,
- Offshore structure design,
- Artic engineering and field development studies

4. Finite Element Analysis and simulation-driven design optimization (Topic coordinator: Prof. Dimitrios G. Pavlou)
- Finite element methods in offshore system analysis
- Boundary Element Method
- Multi-body dynamics
- Isogeometric analysis
- Computational Fracture Mechanics
- Numerical analysis of FRP materials
- Mechanical system modelling and simulation
- Modelling and analysis of additive manufactured parts
- Topology optimization
- Modelling and performance analysis of discrete event systems
- Performance improvement of energy convertors such as wind and wave energy
5. Structural Integrity and Health Monitoring (Topic coordinator: Assoc. Prof. Sudath C.S. Siriwardane)
- Structural health monitoring
- Fatigue analysis of offshore systems
- Fatigue-Corrosion interaction
- NDT of offshore structures
- Cathodic protection
- Guided waves for quality control
- Pipeline Pigging & Integrity Technology
- Fatigue life prediction of engineering structures
- Life-extension of offshore structures
- Fatigue Mechanisms of FRP materials
- Mesoplasticity of metals under cyclic loads,
- Nonlinear structural analysis & design