SHAPING SHIP SAFETY: THE FACE OF THE FUTURE

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Naval Architecture Marine Engineering The Ship
Stability Research Centre NAME-SSRC

• Staff 19 Academic, 5 Visiting Professors and
  Lecturers, 25 Research Fellows and Assistants, 20
  PhD Students, 8 Technical, 11 Administrative and
  Support
• Research Goal To tackle, from a foundation of
  academic strength, problems of fundamental,
  strategic and applied nature, aiming to enhance
  understanding and knowledge in the fields of
  dynamics, stability and safety and to contribute
  to the development of cost-effective solutions
  and application to best practice of ship
  design/operation/regulation
• Research Groups Stability (Motion Dynamics and
  Control), Potential and Viscous Flows (CFD),
  Safety (Risk-Based Design, Operation and
  Regulation), Reliability (Structural Analysis and
  System Reliability), Marine Engineering, New
  Emerging Technologies
• Facilities Denny Ship Model Basin (100 m x 7 m x
  2.7 m), Hydrodynamics Research Centre (70 m x 4.5
  m x 2.4 m), Marine Engineering Laboratory
• Research Funding EPSRC, HSE, Government, EC,
  Industry, International Collaborative Research
  Programmes 115 RTD projects during the last 5
  years (80 on safety related issues)
• Safety at Sea Ltd. Specialist services to the
  industry on stability, design and safe operation
  of ships and advanced marine vehicles 10
  Consultant Naval Architects 200 consulting
  projects in 5 years

www.na-me.ac.uk - www.ssrc.na-me.ac.uk -
www.safety-at-sea.co.uk