2 Definitions
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Statutory Documents - IMO Publications and Documents - Circulars - Maritime Safety Committee - MSC/Circular.1002 – Guidelines on Alternative Design and Arrangements for Fire Safety – (adopted 26 June 2001) - Annex - Guidelines on Alternative Design and Arrangements for Fire Safety - 2 Definitions

2 Definitions

  For the purposes of these guidelines, the following definitions apply:

  2.1 Alternative design and arrangements means fire safety measures which deviate from the prescriptive requirement(s) of SOLAS chapter II-2, but are suitable to satisfy the fire safety objective(s) and the functional requirements of that chapter. The term includes a wide range of measures, including alternative shipboard structures and systems based on novel or unique designs, as well as traditional shipboard structures and systems that are installed in alternative arrangements or configurations.

  2.2 Design fire means an engineering description of the development and spread of fire for use in a design fire scenario. Design fire curves may be described in terms of heat release rate versus time.

  2.3 Design fire scenario means a set of conditions that defines the fire development and the spread of fire within and through ship space(s) and describes factors such as ventilation conditions, ignition sources, arrangement and quantity of combustible materials and fire load accounting for the effects of fire detection, fire protection, fire control and suppression and fire mitigation measures.

  2.4 Functional requirements explain, in general terms, what function the ship should provide to meet the fire safety objectives of SOLAS.

  2.5 Performance criteria are measurable quantities stated in engineering terms to be used to judge the adequacy of trial designs.

  2.6 Prescriptive based design or prescriptive design means a design of fire safety measures which comply with the prescriptive regulatory requirements set out in parts B, C, D, E or G of SOLAS chapter II-2.

  2.7 Safety margin means adjustments made to compensate for uncertainties in the methods and assumptions used to evaluate the alternative design, e.g. in the determination of performance criteria or in the engineering models used to assess the consequences of fire.

  2.8 Sensitivity analysis means an analysis to determine the effect of changes in individual input parameters on the results of a given model or calculation method.

  2.9 SOLAS means the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974, as amended.


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