USE OF FIRE SAFETY ENGINEERING FOR THE DESIGN OF COMPOSITES FOR SHIPBUILDING

摘要

This paper presents results obtained from a 3-year French collaborative research project, MP08 Fire performance of composites for shipbuilding, launched in 2006 in order to encourage the use of composites onboard ships. MP08 aims at developing a Fire Safety Engineering (FSE) methodology compliant with maritime regulations currently in force: SOLAS Convention Chapter II-2, regulation 17 Alternative Design and Arrangements for Fire Safety. The use of FSE in this case is quite a new approach which requires very specific skills. The project gathers partners from varied work domains: shipyards, classification society, fire laboratory, colleges of engineering, materials supplier. It combines academic and applied research.