NDLI: Fault-tree models of accident scenarios of RoPax vessels

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Author	Antão, Pedro Guedes Soares, C.
Copyright Year	2006
Abstract	Ro-Ro vessels for cargo and passengers (RoPax) are a relatively new concept that has proven to be popular in the Mediterranean region and is becoming more widespread in Northern Europe. Due to its design characteristics and amount of passengers, although less than a regular passenger liner, accidents with RoPax vessels have far reaching consequences both for economical and for human life. The objective of this paper is to identify hazards related to casualties of RoPax vessels. The terminal casualty events chosen are related to accident and incident statistics for this type of vessel. This paper focuses on the identification of the basic events that can lead to an accident and the performance requirements. The hazard identification is carried out as the first step of a Formal Safety Assessment (FSA) and the modelling of the relation between the relevant events is made using Fault Tree Analysis (FTA). The conclusions of this study are recommendations to the later steps of FSA rather than for decision making (Step 5 of FSA). These recommendations will be focused on the possible design shortcomings identified during the analysis by fault trees throughout cut sets. Also the role that human factors have is analysed through a sensitivity analysis where it is shown that their influence is higher for groundings and collisions where an increase of the initial probability leads to the change of almost 90% of the accident occurrence.
Starting Page	107
Ending Page	116
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISSN	14768186
Journal	International Journal of Automation and Computing
Volume Number	3
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	17518520
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Publisher Date	2006-01-01
Publisher Place	Beijing
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Ship accidents fault trees human factors Computer Applications Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design Automation and Robotics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Applied Mathematics Control and Systems Engineering Modeling and Simulation Computer Science Applications

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