SSRC is already acknowledged internationally as the leading centre on ship stability and safety. Efforts to promote a safety culture in the design and operation of ships have elevated safety-related research to top priority, thus providing new opportunities for growth. The Centre is developing research in Design for Safety to effectively combine National and European research efforts to target safety as a life-cycle issue for all safety-critical ship types.
Current and Recent Research Areas
- Manoeuvring behaviour of ships in extreme following and quartering seas
- Safety and seaworthiness of bulk carriers in extreme conditions
- Time based survival criteria of passenger ro-ro vessels
- Vessel-wave interaction in breaking waves
- Applications of non-linear dynamics to damage stability
- Strength of hatch covers for bulk carriers
- Probabilistic approach to subdivision of passenger/ro-ro vessels
- Harmonisation of rules and design rationale in damage stability and survivability
- Virtual environment for passenger evacuation simulation
- Formal safety assessment for modern bulk carriers
- Methodology for safe ship design
- An integrated approach to limit state performance predictions
- Hull-propeller interaction using CFD techniques
- Estimation of ship roll damping using the RANS technique
Other related research areas are being investigated by the Centre for Marine Hydrodynamics