The size of new passenger ships has increased tremendously during the past decades. This trend is expected to continue, as bigger size means new opportunities and economics of scale. However, with larger number of passengers onboard the same vehicle the risk to life increases, and hence new insights and methods to deal with it need to be explored.

Floodstand is funded by the European Commission . The lead partner is Helsinki University of Technology and some other partners are SSPA Sweden AB, STX Finland Cruise Oy, CNRS, CTO, DNV, BMT, Stichting Maritiem Research Instituut, MARIN, MEC Insenerilahendused, MEYER WERFT, Napa, SF-Control Oy, NTUA, Bureau Veritas, Safety At Sea, MCA and SSRC.

SSPA will focus on flooding model tests of a damaged ropax vessel freely drifting in SSPA’s Maritime Dynamics Laboratory as well as in a ‘return to port’ operation. SSPA will also carry out simulations of the damaged ship using the inhouse program SEAMAN.

Objectives

The FLOODSTAND is a result of the merger of two separate project proposals with some differences in
approaches and objectives. Therefore, this project can also present two main objectives:

• Increase the reliability of flooding simulation tools in design and onboard use by establishing
  modelling principles and uncertainty bounds.

• Establish a method for instantaneous classification of the severity of ship flooding casualty.

Contact: Project manager, Björn Allenström, +46(0)31 772 90 66, bjorn.allenstrom@sspa.se