Risk-based ship design: methods, tools and applications by Pierre C. Sames (auth.), Prof. Apostolos Papanikolaou (eds.)

By Pierre C. Sames (auth.), Prof. Apostolos Papanikolaou (eds.)

Risk-based send layout is a brand new medical and engineering box of growing to be curiosity to researchers, engineers and pros from a number of disciplines with regards to send layout, development, operation and legislation. the most motivation to exploit risk-based techniques is twofold: enforce a singular send layout that is thought of secure yet - for a few formal, regulatory cause - can't be authorized this present day and/or rationally optimise an present layout with recognize to security, with no compromising on potency and function. it's a transparent path that each one destiny technological and regulatory (International Maritime agency) advancements relating to send layout and operation will struggle through risk-based techniques, that are identified and good verified in different industries (e.g. nuclear, aviation).

The current publication derives from the information won throughout the undertaking SAFEDOR (Design, Operation and legislation for Safety), an built-in venture less than the sixth framework programme of the ecu fee (IP 516278). The ebook goals to supply an knowing of the basics and information of the mixing of risk-based methods into the send layout procedure. The booklet allows the move of data from fresh study paintings to the broader maritime group and advances clinical techniques facing risk-based layout and send safety.

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21 Monte Carlo simulation – collision and grounding Typical results are shown in Figs. 24 as cumulative distribution functions of time to capsize within a given time. From the latter it will be seen that differences between the two methods of nearly an order of magnitude have been encountered and this led to renewed scrutiny of the probabilistic rules, as reported in (Vassalos and Jasionowski 2007). 500 scenarios Fig. 22 Monte Carlo simulation set up – collision 42 D. 7 0 0 10 20 30 length [m] 40 50 60 Fig.

19 for a typical cruise ship, and the confidence that this simple inference model, is capable of predicting the likelihood of a vessel to capsize in any given flooding scenario within given time in fractions of a second. This is a significant development. Considering all pertinent flooding scenarios for a typical ship, the outcome is the marginal cumulative probability distribution for time to capsize, shown in Fig. 20. A close examination of Figs. 20 reveals the following note worthy points: As a random variable, time to capsize can only be predicted in probabilistic terms.

15) i=1 n f rN (N) = ∑ f rhz (hz2 )i P(k)i i=1 e−λ λ Nk,i Nk,i ! 16) The parameter λ is the mean number of fatalities and can be estimated from regression analysis of evacuation simulation results for typical configuration arrangements and standard scenarios (night and day). Consequently the FN curve associated with fire is calculated using Eq. 2) as individual risk contribution or in combination with flooding risk. The components of the risk model described above and shown in Figs. 27, were detailed in (Guarin et al.

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