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Integrated fire and evacuation in maritime environments

Integrated fire and evacuation in maritime environments

Galea, E.R. ORCID: 0000-0002-0001-6665, Lawrence, P. ORCID: 0000-0002-0269-0231, Gwynne, S., Sharp, G., Hurst, N., Wang, Z. ORCID: 0000-0002-8986-0554 and Ewer, J. ORCID: 0000-0003-0609-272X (2004) Integrated fire and evacuation in maritime environments. In: 2nd International Maritime Conference on Design for Safety [Proceedings]. Ship and Ocean Foundation, pp. 161-170.

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Abstract

When designing a new passenger ship or modifying an existing design, how do we ensure that the proposed design and crew emergency procedures are safe from an evacuation resulting from fire or other incident? In the wake of major maritime disasters such as the Scandinavian Star, Herald of Free Enterprise, Estonia and in light of the growth in the numbers of high density high-speed ferries and large capacity cruise ships, issues concerning the evacuation of passengers and crew at sea are receiving renewed interest. Fire and evacuation models with features such as the ability to realistically simulate the spread of fire and fire suppression systems and the human response to fire sas well as the capability to model human performance in heeled orientations linked to a virtual reality environment that produces realistic visualisations of modelled scenarios are now available and can be used to aid the engineer in assessing ship design and procedures. This paper describes the maritmeEXODUS ship evacuation and the SMARTFIRE fire simulation model and provides an example application demonstrating the use of the models in performing fire and evacuation analysis for a large passenger ship partially based on the requirements of MSC circular 1033. The fire simulations include the action of a water mist system.

Item Type: Conference Proceedings
Title of Proceedings: 2nd International Maritime Conference on Design for Safety [Proceedings]
Additional Information: [1] This paper was first presented at the 2nd International Maritime Conference on Design for Safety held from 27-30 October 2004 in Sakai, Japan.
Uncontrolled Keywords: fire simulation, evacuation simulation, Computational Fluid Dynamics, (CFD), ship evacuation, water mist
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Computer software
T Technology > TP Chemical technology
V Naval Science > VM Naval architecture. Shipbuilding. Marine engineering
Pre-2014 Departments: School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences
School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences > Centre for Numerical Modelling & Process Analysis
School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences > Centre for Numerical Modelling & Process Analysis > Fire Safety Engineering Group
School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences > Department of Mathematical Sciences
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Last Modified: 03 Mar 2021 16:50
URI: http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/819

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