DEVELOPMENT OF NEW GENERATION OF SAFE, EFFICIENT, ECOLOGICAL (SE-ECO) SHIPS

Increase of ship’s safety and efficiency, as well as decrease of her negative impacts on the environment, are presently the key segments of the development of current commercial ships. New generations of ships have to be, in each of these segments, superior to the previous solutions. Anticipating such trend, Department of Naval Architecture, Faculty of Mech. Engineering, has been working for years on these problems, and the proposed project presents the continuation of the previous successful research. The Project incorporates development of ship safety through the research of novel, probabilistic regulations, which would decrease the risk of capsizing, flooding and structural failures, and development of ship efficiency, by research of novel methods for evaluation of resistance and power, leading to the superior ship forms and better ship propulsion systems. The increase of ship safety and efficiency reduces her negative impact on the environment. In that context, the project develops novel indicators for the quantification of such favorable ecological effects. The proposed project is the only project in the field of Shipbuilding in the present call of Serbian Ministry of Science, and it includes all the researchers in Serbia connected to that field of technology. The results would be published in leading international publications. The novel methods would be incorporated into the original software package, and offered for use to the shipbuilding industry.