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T H E SECOND
HENRI KUMMERMAN FOUNDATION
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on
RO RO S A F E T Y
AND V U L N E R A B I L I T Y
T H E V^AY AHEAD
HEATHROW PENTA H O T E L , LONDON
17 18 19 A P R I L 1991
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T H E R O Y A L I N S T I T U T I O N O F N A V A L A R C H I T E C T S
TECHNISCHE UNIVERSnOT
Laboratorium voor Scheepshydromachaniea Archief Mekelweg 2, 2628 CO DeHl T«ü 016 - 786873 • Fax: 015 • 7B1838THE SECOND HENRI KUMMERMAN FOUNDATION
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
on
RO-RO S A F E T Y AND VULNERABILITY
THE WAY AHEAD
Heathrow Penta Hotel, London 17 18 19 April 1991
© 1991 The Royal Institution of Naval Architects
The Institution is not, as a body responsible for the opinions expressed by the individual authors or speakers.
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CONTENTS
1. AN OVERVIEW OF RO-RO SAFETY
by K.J. Rawson, Chairman, RINA Safety Committee (UK) 2. PROS AND CONS OF OPTING FOR AN EXISTING STANDARD
by D. Sheehan and R. Gilbert, US Coast Guard (USA) 3. ASSESSING THE SAFETY OF RO-RO SHIPS
by J.G.L. Aston and L.J. Rydill, University College London (UK) 4. THE HUMAN FACTOR IN SAFE SHIP OPERATION
by Anders Flising, Stena Marine Management. Gothenburg (Sweden) 5. THE CANADIAN RESPONSE TO RO-RO FERRY SAFETY INITIATIVES
P.A. Heathcote, Marine Atlantic (Canada) 6. THE DESIGNER'S DILEMMA
by J.A. Crawford, A. Gilfillan and G.C. Mackie, YARD Ltd. (UK) 6(A) A NEW ORDER OF BUSINESS IN MARINE SAFETY
by RADM Joel D. Sipes, USCG, Office of Marine Safety, Security, and Environmental
Protection, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, Washington, DC (USA) 7. MONOMARAN - A NOVEL ARCHITECTURAL FORM OF HULL FOR SAFER AND
L E S S VULNERABLE RO-ROs
by Jan Zadrozny, Polski Rejestr Statkow, Gdansk (Poland) 8. BUOYANT WING SPACES - ECONOMIC COMPLIANCE WITH SOLAS '90
by J.G. Brown, Seaform Design (UK) 9. RO-RO CARGO SHIP DESIGN AND IMO SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS
by P. Sen and W.K. Wimalsiri, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (UK) 10. INTEGRATED COLLISION ANALYSIS FOR SHIPS
by P. Sen, J.A. Cocks and M. Pawlowski, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (UK) 11. EXPERIMENTS WITH A FLOODABLE MODEL OF A RO-RO PASSENGER FERRY
by I.W. Dand, BMT Fluid Mechanics Limited (UK) 12. ROLL MOTIONS OF SHIPS DUE TO SUDDEN WATER INGRESS, CALCULATIONS
AND EXPERIMENTS
by A.W. Vredeveldt, TNO and J.M.J. Journée, TUD (The Netherlands) 13. THE EFFECTS OF TRIM BY BOW: A DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS APPROACH
14. ON YAW-HEEL COUPUNG AND RO-RO VESSELS
by I.W. Dand, BMT Fluid Mechanics Umited (UK) 15. STABILITY AFTER DAMAGE IN A SEAWAY FOR A RO RO PASSENGER
SHIP
by G. Contento, A. Francescutto and, V. Armenio. University of Trieste (Italy) 16. WIND EFFECTS ON RO-RO VESSELS
