A systematic methodology to assess the impact of human factors in ship design

Abstract

Evaluating ship layout for human factors (HF) issues using simulation software such as maritimeEXODUS can be a long and complex process. The analysis requires the identification of relevant evaluation scenarios; encompassing evacuation and normal operations; the development of appropriate measures which can be used to gauge the performance of crew and vessel and finally; the interpretation of considerable simulation data. Currently, the only agreed guidelines for evaluating HFs performance of ship design relate to evacuation and so conclusions drawn concerning the overall suitability of a ship design by one naval architect can be quite different from those of another. The complexity of the task grows as the size and complexity of the vessel increases and as the number and type of evaluation scenarios considered increases. Equally, it can be extremely difficult for fleet operators to set HFs design objectives for new vessel concepts. The challenge for naval architects is to develop a procedure that allows both accurate and rapid assessment of HFs issues associated with vessel layout and crew operating procedures. In this paper we present a systematic and transparent methodology for assessing the HF performance of ship design which is both discriminating and diagnostic. The methodology is demonstrated using two variants of a hypothetical naval ship.

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“…The ship evacuation simulation software maritimeEXODUS [7][8][9][10][11][12][13], produced by the Fire Safety Engineering Group (FSEG) of the University of Greenwich was used to perform the evacuation simulations presented in this paper. The software has been described in detail in many publications [7][8][9][10][11][12][13] and so only a brief description of the software will be presented here.…”

“…In this paper we present SGVDS2, the blind results from the maritimeEXODUS [7][8][9][10][11][12][13] simulation of the validation data-set and an assessment of the level of agreement between model predictions and trial data. All the data required to define the validation data-set, including the geometry of the vessel is publicly available and can be found on the FSEG website, http://fseg.gre.ac.uk/validation/ship_evacuation.…”