Total Ship Operability –Review, Concept and Criteria

Concept of Multifunctional Small Cleanup Ship

The Baltic Sea belongs to a global system of protected area and has a status of Particularly Sensitive Sea Area (PSSA) which results in a mechanism for strict control on interna tional shipping activities within designated areas through the UN International Maritime Or ganization (IMO). Countries can declare such areas, and then establish rules for t heir protection. Additionaly almost the enti...

Reengineering the Naval Ship Concept Design Process

Naval ship concept design is very much an “ad hoc” process. Selection of design concepts for assessment is guided primarily by experience, design lanes, rules-of-thumb, preference and imagination. Objective attributes are not adequately synthesized or presented to support efficient and effective decisions. Attributes are often qualitative, inconsistent, and not provided to design engineers in a...

Manoeuvring Assessment in Concept Ship Design

Hazard and operability (HAZOP) analysis: A review of basics

Hazard and operability (HAZOP) methodology is a Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) technique used worldwide for studying not only the hazards of a system, but also its operability problems, by exploring the effects of any deviations from design conditions. Our paper is the HAZOP review intended to gather HAZOP-related literature from books, guidelines, standards, major journals, and conference proce...

Ship Evacuation – Guidelines, Simulation, Validation, and Acceptance Criteria

This paper deals with various aspects of ship evacuation: Guidelines, Simulation, Validation, and Acceptance Criteria. The paper is structured along those aspects. The first chapter deals with general aspects of ship evacuation, like environmental influences, ship motion, the special procedures on board ships, etc. The second chapter covers the guidelines applicable to evacuation analyses for p...