FIRE PROTECTION: REGULATION, RISK AND PREDICTION

摘要

By tradition warship fire protection has been addressed in a different manner to merchant practice. Warships appear to rely on active measures to defeat fire while merchant vessels can be viewed as focussing on containment. This paper opens by examining the regulatory systems governing fire boundary insulation used by the merchant marine, class societies and the UK MoD. As these systems interact the potential is discussed for mismatches to arise between naval and commercial requirements when ships are designed for military service. The paper completes with a review of the progress made in simulating the spread of fire using the SURVIVE code, demonstrating how the tool can be used to inform the risks of adopting different fire insulation schemes.