Collision-accidental limit states-based safety studies for a LNG-fuelled containership

A Modified Midcourse Guidance Law Based on Genelarized Collision Course

A probabilistic model for accidental cargo oil outflow from product tankers in a ship-ship collision.

In risk assessment of maritime transportation, estimation of accidental oil outflow from tankers is important for assessing environmental impacts. However, there typically is limited data concerning the specific structural design and tank arrangement of ships operating in a given area. Moreover, there is uncertainty about the accident scenarios potentially emerging from ship encounters. This pa...

A METAHEURISTIC-BASED ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK FOR PLASTIC LIMIT ANALYSIS OF FRAMES

Despite the advantages of the plastic limit analysis of structures, this robust method suffers from some drawbacks such as intense computational cost. Through two recent decades, metaheuristic algorithms have improved the performance of plastic limit analysis, especially in structural problems. Additionally, graph theoretical algorithms have decreased the computational time of the process impre...

Practical Implementation of Safety Verification in LNG Production Facilities

Many energy and production facilities are operating without clear formal safety requirements, which are considered the base for good process safety management practices. Safety requirements are typically specified during process design based on identified hazard scenarios. This paper proposes a practical framework and methods to systematically synthesize safety requirements based on qualitative...

Study on lockage safety of LNG-fueled ships based on FSA

In the present study, formal safety assessment (FSA) is introduced to investigate lockage safety of LNG-fueled ships. Risk sources during lockage of LNG-fueled ships in four typical scenarios, namely, navigation between two dams, lockage, anchorage, and fueling, are identified, and studied in combination with fundamental leakage probabilities of various components of LNG storage tanks, and simu...