ABSTRACT
Following recent research under EU Horizons 2020 project FLARE, the influence of crashworthiness on passenger ship damage stability has been studied within a probabilistic framework with the inclusion of grounding damages. As a first step, a ship grounding simulation tool coupling a fast Super-Element solver with external ship dynamics has been developed. Then, various ship reinforcement methods have been studied through extensive crash simulations in order to reshape the side and bottom grounding statistical damage distributions that are used in damage stability analyses. Finally, probabilistic damage stability analyses have been carried out on some sample ships in order to quantify the risk reduction associated to the studied reinforcement strategies. The results show that the consideration of crashworthiness of the ship structure can have a significant influence on risk reduction.
