Towards a Reliability Based Approach to the Hydrodynamic Aspects of Seagoing Vessels Safety

The hydrodynamic part of ship safety is actually managed by means of prescriptive stability criteria based on static stability characteristics of the ship. The analysis reveals that this approach leads to many contradictions whose final effect is to delay the formulation and adoption of higher safet...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: FRANCESCUTTO, ALBERTO
Other Authors: C. Guedes Soares, Francescutto, Alberto
Format: Conference Object
Language:English
Published: ASME 1992
Subjects:
Reliability
Safety at sea
Ship motion
Ship stability
Ship design
Arctic
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11368/2552701
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Summary:The hydrodynamic part of ship safety is actually managed by means of prescriptive stability criteria based on static stability characteristics of the ship. The analysis reveals that this approach leads to many contradictions whose final effect is to delay the formulation and adoption of higher safety standards. Only the development of a fully physical approach could allow a realistic evaluation of the probabilities of ship loss through the different mechanisms. The final goal will be an effectively unified approach to ship safety.

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