Methodology of the predictive approach formalized assessment of the structural safety level of ships
The international management code for the safe operation of ships and for pollution prevention (ISM code) requires that the company responsible for the operation identified as its objective «assessment of all identified risks to its ships, personnel and the environment and established the appropriate protection». Therefore, the implementation of the navigation system formal safety assessment is а requirement of the International Maritime organization (IMO). However, to assess the level of structural safety in operation is quite а difficult task, as her formal assessment could be carried out only when the ship's docking. The development in the international Maritime transport logistics cost savings «economies of scale in transportation» led to an unjustified sharp increase in ship sizes. Simple dimensional modernization projects of ships of conventional types, with the optimization of the ratio of recycling tonnage by deadweight, carries the hidden threat of the dangerous States for the body with «the optimum resistance moment of the cross section» underestimation of the risks of exploitation in these design approaches has revealed hidden problems in ensuring structural safety and as а result of а serious accident of recent years are associated with fractures of the buildings are relatively new vessels.