SafetyatSea’s commitment to safety and innovation in ship design has lead to the development of unique software tools that allow the evaluation of safety performance as part of the design process and continuously during operation.
Software development at SafetyatSea is carried out under the Lloyd’s Register TickIT certification and quality assurance scheme.
Proteus
A non-linear code to predict ship motions in realistic environments in intact and damaged conditions; The code is used routinely in ship concept design to assess the level of survivability of a passenger ship after water ingress due to collision or grounding events and to identify measures to reduce the risk of capsizing or sinking. This is a key aspect of the risk based design process. Proteus is also used extensively in accident investigation and litigation cases.
EVi
A pedestrian dynamics simulation tool utilising multi agent modelling techniques and continuous space.
The tool has been used extensively for the assessment of escape and evacuation arrangements on ship layouts.
Most recently EVi has being used for undertaking fire risk assessment in conjunction with fire engineering calculations
iStand
While software systems capable of rapid stability calculations have been available for some time, there has long been a need for a Decision Support System capable of providing timely and useful advice to the bridge in time of crisis.
iStand answers this need by being the first system of its type capable of assessing the criticality of the situation in terms of evacuability and flooding and providing useful guidance to the bridge based on the situation in hand rather than pre-computed static advice. iStand was developed as part of our research work in EC Framework Projects and was first implemented on Royal Caribbean International’s ‘Oasis of the Seas’. iStand builds on our experience of nearly 10 years starting with the delivery of stability software for military vessels.
