Ship survivability through optimisation of fire fighting systems and damage control
conference paper
Warship designs have been improved the last decade with respect to their resilience against weapon hits. In particular, attention was paid to reduction of the blast and fragmentation effects from warhead detonations. In addition to that, all kind of fire safety measures are taken, following existing prescriptive rules. It is clear, however, that the above measures together not necessarily cover the situation of having a large fire after an internal warhead detonation. The damage to the ship and organisation causes standard solutions to be inappropriate. To improve the fire fighting systems and Damage Control, it is necessary to simulate the total of processes starting with the weapon hit. This paper describes a tool, RESIST, that has been developed to cover this area.
TNO Identifier
443134
Article nr.
31
Source title
Combat Survivability of Air, Sea and Land Vehicles, Proceedings of the RTO Applied Vehicle Technology Panel (AVT) Symposium AVT-087/RSY-012, Aalborg, Denmark, 23-26 September 2002
Collation
12 p.
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