- Author
- Wikman, J.
- Title
- Ship Fire Safety Engineering. Enclosures.
- Coporate
- Lund Univ., Sweden
- Report
- LUTVDG/TVBB-1012-SE, 1995, 156 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Keywords
- ships | shipboard fires | safety engineering | fire safety | regulations | risk analysis | computer programs | smoke spread | evacuation
- Identifiers
- safety analysis; SAFE
- Abstract
- This thesis is concerned with the basic ideas of how the fire safety level can be evaluated. For a specific ship, risk levels are of course independent of the design methodology, but the evaluation of the fire safety level is dependent on the type of regulations that are used and the criteria are different. These regulations could be either Prescriptive or Performance Based, and they are discussed in chapter 2. The chapter is based on the report "Prestudy: Performance Based Fire Safety Regulations for Ships", which has been submitted to the International Maritime Organisation (IMO). The evaluation of the fire safety can be done in a number of different ways. The next chapter presents three different approaches to fire safety analysis. First the UK "Draft Code of Practice for the Application of Fire Safety Engineering Principles to Fire Safety in Buildings" is described. The Code is intended to facilitate the use of functional building requirements, and it gives guidance on how to evaluate the different parts of the fire safety of buildings.