Vassalos, Dracos;
(2025)
From the Titanic era to the AI era: a rational framework for life-cycle damage stability and flooding risk management of passenger ships.
Ships and Offshore Structures
pp. 1-8.
10.1080/17445302.2025.2603415.
(In press).
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Abstract
Maritime accidents involving passenger ships have long influenced industry approaches to ship design, emphasizing resilience and fail-safe performance following flooding events. Consequently, regulatory frameworks have focused predominantly on damage containment and emergency response rather than on accident prevention. This emphasis is reinforced by largely rules-based regulations that apply mainly to newbuildings and reflect legacy assumptions that have not kept pace with modern technological advances. As a result, many existing ships operate under comparatively lower safety standards, with limited means to sustain or enhance safety during operation. Meanwhile, progress in accident prevention has been modest, failing to capitalize on contemporary developments that could offer cost-effective and transformative safety improvements. There is a clear need for a paradigm shift from post-accident protection toward proactive accident prevention, with the ultimate objective of eliminating loss of life at sea. This paper proposes such a shift and outlines the essential elements required to design and operate fundamentally safer ships.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | From the Titanic era to the AI era: a rational framework for life-cycle damage stability and flooding risk management of passenger ships |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/17445302.2025.2603415 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/17445302.2025.2603415 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2025 The Author(s). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
| Keywords: | passenger ship safety, damage stability, flooding risk management, life-cycle framework, risk-based approach |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Mechanical Engineering |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10219525 |
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