- Author
- Pohler, C. H. | Duff, F. D. | Leonard, J. T. | Finger, S. M. | McWhirter, W. R. | Schmidt, A. W.
- Title
- Impact of Citadels on Damage Control in Naval Ships: An Open Challenge.
- Coporate
- Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, DC Naval Research Lab., Washington, DC Naval Ship Research and Development Center, Wahington, DC Gibbs and Cox, Inc., Washington, DC
- Book or Conf
- Director General Maritime Engineering and Maintenance. International Conference on Fire Propagation Onboard Warships. September 26-27, 1983, Ottawa, Canada, 222-232 p., 1983
- Keywords
- shipboard fires
- Abstract
- In response to the requirement to operate in an environment contaminated by chemical and biological warfare agents, the Navy is designing Citadels containing Collective Protection Systems (CPS) on all ships startinmg in 1985. The CPS uses internal pressurization, air locks and filtration to prevent the ingress of contaminants into the ship's interior. CPS impacts significantly on all phases of ship engineering design integration and correspondingly on ship system configuaration and operations. The introduction of CPS on Navy ships requires a re-examination of Damage Contrtol philosophy with special emphasis on maintaining combat readiness.