Survive®

Fine tune your survivability

Survive® offers the ability to rapidly simulate and quantify the likely effects of damage to a maritime vessel caused by a wide range of attacks. This allows designers to compare various damage mitigation methods cost effectively and identify the right survivability strategy. By comparing the vulnerability of a vessel against the lethality of a variety of threats, Survive® can support critical design decisions and in-service alterations to a vessel for the environment it is intended to operate in.

Versatility

Survive® offers several generic hull types and the support to import your own. Included hull forms include frigate/destroyer, carrier, auxiliary, minesweeper and trimaran. Survive® has an intuitive staged model building process, giving the user the ability to easily create concept designs by choosing and scaling a hull type, adding compartmentation, customising bulkhead attributes and defining top-level vessel capabilities using systems and equipment.

Functionality and development

Continuous improvement is made to Survive® as part of a regular release schedule - adding capability and improving the flexibility and usability of the tool.

A week long training course is available for an introduction to survivability and to learn how Survive® can be employed to support more survivable ship designs.

QinetiQ also provides a service to supply custom hull shapes for use with Survive® based on the user’s requirements.

Features and benefits

• Ability to analyse missiles, bombs, mines, torpedoes and drone attack
• Damage modelled from blast, fragmentation, underwater shock, flooding and fire
• Extensively verified and validated damage assessment algorithms
• Weapon Editor add-on allows customisation of threat weapon characteristics
• Flexible, rapid analysis engine allowing efficient analysis of multiple scenarios

The team that develops Survive also offers survivability consultation. Further information on this can be found here: Marine Structures and Survivability.