FISPAT User Manual

In 2002 an amendment was added to the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS)[1] which opened up for shipbuilders to replace steel with lightweight materials in the superstructures. However, SOLAS requires equal fire safety capability compared to ships with steel superstructures. LASS-c is a cross-organizational project with the aim to find a method to build cruise ships with part of the superstructure made in lightweight materials. The purpose of this LASS-c sub-project has been to develop a software tool in Java (FISPAT) that helps identifying fire sensitive areas in cruise vessels structures. This report is the user manual to FISPAT and contains an introduction, explanation of the FISPAT Vessel Model, explanation of the GUI and a work process example. In FISPAT the user can make a model of the vessel structure containing rooms, networks and devices. FISPAT then performs exhaustive simulation of fire spread and fault injections in the model and presents it to the user. The user analyzes the results to find fire and fault sensitive parts. By introducing additional networks and devices or altering the ones already existing, iterative exhaustive simulations lead to a better cruise vessel design. The goal is that the user should be able to translate its own vessel drawings into the application and perform simulations on it after reading this report.