Symposium 7: Advanced Topics in Offshore Wind Turbine Research. Today, there is a world strong attention to energy resources and global sustainability: Offshore Wind Turbines (OWT) play a special role and have reacheda main consensus about effectiveness. The Symposium concerns all the aspects related with these complex challenging structural systems, covering both design concepts and analysis methods,with special attention to interaction phenomena and multidisciplinary problems, and a strong focus on demanding technological characteristics, experimental activities and real applications. ASCE Earth & Space 2010 OWT Symposium http://content.asce.org/files/pdf/EarthSpace2010Prelim-FINAL.pdf http://ascelibrary.org/doi/book/10.1061/9780784410967