The Development of modelling methods and interface tools supporting a risk based approach to fire safety in ship design

The FIREPROOF project aims to develop a risk based performance assessment framework for fire safety in passenger ship design. Building on previous work on probabilistic damaged stability, this framework requires developments in modelling, simulation and analysis in several areas to allow the probabilistic representation of ship performance. To support the FIREPROOF framework, an outline Ship Product Model (SPM) was developed, demonstrating the modelling and information storage methods required of future CAD tools to be compatible with the risk based approach. This supported the use of simulation based analysis on a model representative of early stage ship design. Winner of best paper at COMPIT 2012