Mechanical Design and Control with Human Factors in Ship Design: Improving Ship Environmental Impact Towards a Green Policy

Abstract:

Decades of engineering practice have undoubtedly proven that the human operator is a complex variable that warrants significant consideration during the first stages of design and throughout the entire operational lifetime of a system. However, human factors are frequently neglected during the design process and during the systems operation. When human factors are not adequately addressed, people make errors and safety is severely compromised, the consequences of which are well documented. However, the process of integrating human factors into the design process is still maturing. Fortunately, there are ways for the designer to effectively screen and select which human factors elements should receive consideration for a particular project. Human stressors one of Elements should be included, specially factors that cause fatigue and human error.Noise and vibration are important reasons which cause human fatigue and has a significant impact on human performance. The international regulations, ship owners and many countries give a serious concern to this issue specially when designing a new ship to gain the "Green policy" or "Green ship" label by reducing and enhancement ship environmental impact, they adopted technological methods and solutions to achieve that goal. In this paper we will present a review for those methodologies and design procedures for new vessels to enhance this issue as a green policy, which reflect many benefits on human stressors, in order to activate and enrich the role of human factors in ship design.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 952)
• Pages: 239-243
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.952.239
• Online since: May 2014
• Authors: Hany Abdelkhalek*, Duan Feng Han, Liang Tian Gao, Ehab Hanafy
• Keywords: Green Policy, Human Factors, Human Stressors, Noise, Vibration

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