A concept study for the buoyancy support system based on the fixed fire-fighting system for damaged ships

Abstract

Although the number of marine accidents has gradually decreased, fatal ones continue to occur. To prevent huge losses of life, environment and property, there are sufficient laws, rules and regulations, which include many technical solutions. Notably, many solutions for damaged ships are suggested to prevent capsizing and sinking. However, many pioneering ideas for damaged ships remain at the conception level because of the lack of technical and economic feasibility. To have both technical and economic feasibility in the design process, in this study, a business-model-adopted design process has been considered. Using this design process, a new concept for buoyancy support systems is studied, which considers the technical and economic matters in the design process. In addition, a fixed fire-fighting system and 3d laser scan data basis 3-dimensional buoyancy support system are been studied. To convince the usability of the suggested concept, computational simulation was used at the abstract level. Because there can be thousands of damage scenarios for a ship, sampled catastrophic damage scenarios are used in the case study to confirm the possibility of the suggested concept of buoyancy support systems.