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8.1 Purpose8. In-service Hull Girder Inspection Requirementsof Commercial and Naval Ship OperatorsThis chapter addresses <strong>ship</strong> maintenance and inspection policies that apply to both<strong>commercial</strong> <strong>ship</strong> operators and military services. The instructions that document the policies donot all directly specify the frequency and detail of in-service hull girder inspections, but doestablish the requirements to make the inspections and assign the responsibilities <strong>for</strong>accomplishing them. The requirements <strong>for</strong> <strong>commercial</strong> <strong>ship</strong>s are established by U.S. CoastGuard regulations. Military <strong>ship</strong>s operated by the Military Sealift Command, most of which aremanned by civilian crews, generally follow practices and policies of <strong>commercial</strong> <strong>ship</strong>s. Therequirements <strong>for</strong> U.S. and Canadian Navy <strong>ship</strong>s are considerably different than the <strong>commercial</strong><strong>ship</strong> requirements, reflecting the difference in original <strong>design</strong> requirements as well as the muchlarger and organized industrial support facilities and organizations that serve these navies.8.2 Commercial Ship RequirementsIn-service inspections of the hulls of <strong>commercial</strong> <strong>ship</strong>s are regulated by Coast Guard orother national regulatory bodies. Insight into current U.S. Coast Guard inspection procedures iscontained in the SSC report Guide <strong>for</strong> Ship Structural Inspections (Basar and Jovino, 1990). Thereport prescribes methods and requirements of inspections <strong>for</strong> all stages of a <strong>ship</strong>’s life from theonset of the <strong>design</strong> process through construction to the final operational years in service. Thisreport is used as a guide by U.S. Coast Guard inspectors. U.S. Coast Guard inspectionprocedures, especially as relevant to <strong>fatigue</strong> analysis, are described in a paper by Williams andSharpe presented at the March 1995 Symposium and Workshop <strong>for</strong> the Prevention of Fracture inShip Structure (Williams and Sharpe, 1995). In this paper, the authors described the difficultiesencountered in conducting effective inspections of <strong>commercial</strong> <strong>ship</strong> structures, particularly insingle hull tankers. Difficulties cited include the large size of tankers, which makes inspection ofthe upper portions of tanks difficult without staging. Lighting conditions are generally poor; lackof cleanliness makes defects difficult to see; tanks are often extremely hot, and the extent of thestructure to be inspected leads to <strong>fatigue</strong>.U.S. Coast Guard Navigation and Vessel Inspection Circular NVIC 2-99 describes theStreamlined Inspection Program (SIP), which is an alternative to traditional U.S. Coast Guardinspections and was developed in response to the Maritime Regulatory Re<strong>for</strong>m Initiative. Theinitiative challenged the Coast Guard to re-evaluate its regulatory programs and to developalternatives that would ensure the same level of safety. The significant difference between SIPand the traditional annual inspection program is in the process of how compliance is ensured.SIP is primarily an "overlay" of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) requirements thatregulate vessel safety. It identifies an alternative process <strong>for</strong> ensuring compliance with the CFR,where company personnel conduct frequent, periodic examinations of the various vessel systems,document their findings, and take the necessary corrective actions specified in the U.S. CoastGuard approved plans when discrepancies are discovered. The Coast Guard will still conductrequired inspections of the vessel(s); however, the manner of conducting the inspection will beconsiderably different.8-1

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