“…Crack is one of the most common damage in aged marine structures, which may be initiated at structural discontinuity, welded joints and stress concentration regions (He et al, 2014(He et al, , 2020. It is common sense that cracks could significantly worsen the buckling performance, consequently reduce the load bearing capacity of structures, possibly causing a catastrophic collapse of the whole structure (Wang et al, 2015;Gao et al, 2012;Xia et al, 2019). Therefore, it is crucial to predict the ultimate strength of hull structures based on deterministic methods when they come across extraordinary terrible loading conditions.…”