Ship motions, vibration and noise influence on crew performance and well-being studies in FAROS project

The target of on-going EU-7FP project FAROS is to find links between ship design features and crew performance especially on RoPax vessels and tankers. This paper presents studies of the influence of ship motions, vibration and noise on ship’s crew performance and well-being. Calculation procedures to determine novel concepts Motion Induced Sickness (MIS) and Motion Induced Interruption (MII) for a ship in given wave conditions and operation profile are presented. Motion limits for ship crew and influence of motions on crew performance and well-being are discussed. Mariners are interviewed on how ship motions, vibration and noise influence their performance on board. Interview results shows that adaptation of mariners to ship motions is high and seasickness among experienced mariners is rare. It seems also that vibration and noise has seldom strong influence on performance during normal watch of mariners. However, ship motions, vibration and noise may cause fatigue or interrupt demanding operations like maintenance on board the ship.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Institut Francais des Sciences et Technologies des Transports, de l'Aménagement et des Réseaux (IFSTTAR)

  14-20 bd Newton, Cité Descartes, Champs su Marne
  77447 Marne la Vallée,   France  Cedex 2
• Authors:
  • Kivimaa, Seppo
  • Rantanen, Antti
  • Nyman, Tapio
  • Owen, Douglas
  • Garner, Toby
  • Davies, Barry
• Conference:
  • Transport Research Arena (TRA) 5th Conference: Transport Solutions from Research to Deployment
  • Location: Paris , France
  • Date: 2014-4-14 to 2014-4-17
• Publication Date: 2014-4

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 10p
• Monograph Title: Transport Research Arena (TRA) 2014 Proceedings

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Human factors; Motion; Motion sickness; Noise; Ships; Tolerance (Physiology); Ultimate load design; Vibration; Working conditions
• ITRD Terms: 2051: Exposure (human); 2257: Human factor; 6452: Limit; 2180: Motion sickness; 5483: Movement; 2492: Noise; 1248: Ship; 5558: Vibration; 2261: Working conditions
• Subject Areas: Environment; Marine Transportation; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment; I15: Environment; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01540708
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI)
• Files: VTI, TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Oct 15 2014 10:34AM