Publications

Cabos, C., Jaramillo, D., Stadie-Frohbös, G., Renard, P., Ventura, M. and Dumas, B. (2008), “Condition Assessment Scheme”, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computer Applications and Information Technology in the Maritime Industries (Compit´08), 21-23 April, Bedford Hotel, Liege, Belgium

The goals of the CAS Project (Condition Assessment of aging ships for real-time Structural maintenance decision), which is concluded in spring 2008, were to increase ship safety through improved hull condition monitoring. The first step, and also the particular focus of the project, was an increased efficiency and quality of the thickness measurement process. The main results from the project are a standard exchange format, called the Hull Condition Model (HCM), and a suite of prototype tools which use this HCM format. Commercial tools are being derived from CAS: although they use the same HCM format, they involve different implementation principles. Validation of the underlying concept has been achieved by a real demonstration, at the Lisnave shipyard, in Portugal. We are exploring ways towards HCM acceptance as a maritime standard. The use of a Robot in the thickness measurements process is considered. Risk Based Inspections “RBI” and associated predictive tools would be of a great added value for HCM based processes.

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