Zobair Ibn Awal

• PhD (Osaka University, Japan)
• Professor at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology

Ship recycling industries play a significant role in the economic development of South Asian countries, including Bangladesh. In the wake of entering the Hong Kong Convention (HKC) in June 2025, the industry aims to improve its overall safety standards cost-effectively. However, due to the restrictive nature of the industry, solutions based on fiel...

The Google Maps application is an excellent tool for many navigational purposes. Recognizing the potentials, this study shows the development of a Marine Traffic Simulator (MTS) by utilizing the capabilities of the Google Maps API in conjunction with the ship manoeuvring model, namely Nomoto's K-T Model. The aim is to facilitate the real-time analy...

The determination of principal particulars represents the initial step in any vessel design process, serving as the essential input for subsequent design phases. The precise calculation of principal particulars of vessels holds paramount importance across their lifecycle, spanning design, construction, and operational phases. These determinations h...

Public transportation plays a critical role in meeting transportation demands, particularly in densely populated areas. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of public health measures, including the need to prevent the spread of the virus through public transport. The spreading of the virus on a passenger ship is studied using the Co...

11 Ship design optimization based on machine learning is an emerging and rapidly evolving field within naval 12 architecture and maritime engineering. It involves using machine learning techniques to enhance various aspects 13 of ship design, performance, and efficiency. This research analyses the efficacy of feedforward neural network 14 and rando...

Ships are the world’s most economical means of freight transportation, and they are expanding quickly day by day. The increase in ship transportation activities has resulted in a significant concern about CO2 emissions. International Maritime Organization has agreed to set a goal of reducing the maritime sector’s total gas emissions by at least 50%...

At present, the global center of the ship breaking and recycling industry is in South Asia, specifically Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan. These three countries account for 70–80 percent of the international recycling market for ocean-going vessels, with China and Turkey covering most of the remaining market. Only about 5 percent of global volume is...

Ferry transportation plays a pivotal role in the socio-economic fabric of Bangladesh, connecting numerous remote and underserved regions across its extensive network of rivers and waterways. Despite its significance, ferry accidents continue to severely threaten human lives and property. This thesis endeavors to provide a comprehensive analysis of...

The ship recycling sector has been essential in Bangladesh's economic growth over the past few decades. It provides both resources and employment opportunities. However, health and safety concerns have become an issue over time. Hence, this paper presents a survey on occupational health and safety issues of ship recycling yards in Bangladesh. The s...

The ship recycling sector has been essential in Bangladesh's economic growth over the past few decades. It provides both resources and employment opportunities. However, health and safety concerns have become an issue over time. Hence, this paper presents a survey on occupational health and safety issues of ship recycling yards in Bangladesh. The s...

Shipbreaking in Bangladesh plays a pivotal role in providing scrap steel and other reusable materials for construction and reselling. Due to steady and cyclical steel supply-demand, this industry has attained global attention as a leading sector for the economy of Bangladesh. On one hand, this industry holds a significant aspect from the economic p...

Motion response prediction at the design stage of a vessel can ameliorate the performance of any floating structure. Many naval operations and offshore activities such as oil and gas exploration, aircraft landing, mooring, berthing, etc. are motion-sensitive. Hence, it is apparent, that motion response plays a vital role in these cases and, to keep...

Worldwide the renewable energy demand has risen sharply over the past decades due to its environmental benefits compared to conventional fossil fuel power generation. The ocean is a vast source of renewable energy i.e. tidal energy, wave energy, wind, and ocean thermal energy. In this research, a model for extracting ocean wave energy using a piezo...

Bangladesh has a vast network of inland waterways. This allows easier and cheaper transportation to the people of this low-income nation. However, frequent accidents in inland waterways have caused significant loss of human lives and properties. This study analyzes the accident data of an era (2008–2019) collected from the Department of Shipping of...

Ship repair time indicates the duration of stay of a ship in a dockyard for maintenance services. Docking of ships for maintenance and repair are highly sophisticated works and simultaneously it is labor-intensive with strict time constraints. In this research, a mathematical model has been developed for estimating the repair time of cargo ships us...

Ship collision is a matter of major concern all over the world. A significant number of studies have been published regarding the assessment of ship collision risk. This paper studies ship collision risk assessment models and investigates the characteristics of the models with the aid of the Automatic Identification System (AIS) from Chattogram Por...

Safety of Passenger vessel operation in Bangladesh is a burning issue that remains uncertain so far. The nation has experienced a number of dreadful accidents involving passenger ships in the past few decades. Furthermore, the accidents involving passenger vessels cover the lion's share of fatality of the overall maritime accidents in Bangladesh. T...

Bangladesh is a country of rivers. The places that are not easily accessible by land transport like roads and railways, inland water transport allows very easy access to those locations. Despite being one of the most popular public modes of transport there remain some major deficiencies in ensuring safety. This study analyzes accidents involving co...

Since the invention of the steam engine, many engineering innovations have propelled the human civilization forward and the society has changed dramatically. At the same time, accidents of various kinds (e.g. car, rail, aircraft, ships, industrial, etc.) have never stopped taking place. Hence, for any engineering and socio-technical system, safety...

Maritime accidents, when taking place, often affect in large scale over the environment, society and economy. Many such accidents have occurred in the past century. In this study, it is observed that the traditional approach towards maritime safety, in general, is reactive. It indicates that accidents are unpredictable, and this is the most fundame...

The inland waterway plays a very important role in the transportation system of Bangladesh. But, due to severe deficiencies of the safety practices, a lot of accidentll take place almost every year in the inland waterways that cause considerable loss of human lives and assets. The inland waterway accidentll in Bangladasb during 2005 to 2015 were an...

This research work attempts to develop a method to design a high-speed shallow draft vessel. The work is fundamentally performed into three segments: developing a performance prediction method for propeller where the data of a surface piercing propeller is collected from a convenient source, secondly calculation of the resistance of the vessel at d...

The Inland Water Transportation (IWT) system of Bangladesh is one of the most significant modes of transportation for being easily accessible and less expensive. Though Bangladesh own geographical benefit of having a huge inland waterway network but there are severe safety deficiencies in this sector. This study has analyzed the data of accidents t...

The economic and social impact of maritime accidents are enormous and devastating. In recent times the world experienced some grievous accidents which put serious challenges to the existing methods of safety evaluation. Over the years many research has been conducted on risk analysis and improvement of safety standards. Yet accidents are taking pla...

Maritime accident is an issue of immense concern across the globe particularly because of its effect on environment and human lives. In general, there are many contributing factors behind maritime accidents, yet failure of marine engine is regarded as one of the main contributing factors. This paper, therefore, focuses on maritime accident due to e...

This paper proposes a new accident analysis method based on Logic Programming Technique (LPT). In this study, an accident is considered as an unintentional event that occurs due to one or more root cause(s) that can be logically linked to the accident event. It is discussed in this research that various root causes of an accident can be identified...

Maritime accident is a serious problem. Such problems are difficult to solve and traditionally regulations are enforced to solve these problems. The principal idea behind applying regulations is to control the human decisions/actions so that the marine systems are designed and operated within the safety limits. Despite all sorts of efforts and tech...

Maritime accidents are catastrophic and costs significantly to the environment and human lives. So far many research has been conducted on maritime safety with particular focus on risk analysis which extend from transport systems to individual components (e.g. engine) failure. However, compared to risk analysis there exist very few, if none, comput...

This paper presents a study on contact type accidents of water transport in Bangladesh using fault tree analysis as a tool. Based on the unique characteristics of the inland water transportation system in Bangladesh, a fault tree is developed to represent the chain of events resulting in collision and grounding. The factors triggering the mishaps a...

So many accidents happen in the past years. Each time big accident happens, new regulations, apparatus/devices and systems are mandated/recommended. However, the number of accidents does not reduce. New types of accidents happen, maybe because most of accidents happen by human errors directly/indirectly. Although the word 'accident' means anything...

This paper describes a research work on the reconstruction of capsize of marine vehicles using fault tree analysis. Capsize of marine vehicles are observed to take place all around the world; however, such accidents occur at an overwhelming rate in the inland waterways of Bangladesh. This paper, therefore, aims to illuminate the chains of faults wo...

Purpose This paper aims to investigate the marine vehicle accident characteristics in the inland waterways of Bangladesh, with particular emphasis on collision type accidents. Design/methodology/approach Accident data were collected from different sources such as the daily newspapers, reports of Department of Shipping (DOS) and Bangladesh Inland W...

Inland water transport (IWT) plays a very significant role in the transportation system of Bangladesh. Its low expenses and high accessibility compared with other alternative modes amplifies a great demand for carrying goods and passengers within the country. Although water transportation sector in Bangladesh possesses geographical advantage but th...

This paper investigates the ship capsizing due to collision with another ship in calm water. A mathematical model on collision dynamics has been developed and validated. The dynamic characteristic (roll in particular) has been studied numerically. Searches have been made to find the survivability boundaries in terms of striking velocity, coefficien...

This research work attempts to develop a model for ship to ship collision. The collision model is fundamentally divided into two segments namely, model for simulation before collision and model for simulation after collision. In the first part, mathematical formulations are derived for finding the possibility of a collision, determining the spatial...

On the basis of previous studies, a series of hazards involving the typical small inland passenger ferries operating in inland Bangladeshi waters have been identified. In particular, stormy weather conditions, overloading, and the risk of crowding to one side have been determined as the typical events that are likely to lead to capsizing in the int...

The inland water transport system of Bangladesh provides naturally suitable and relatively cheaper means of transportation and is being considered as one of the most popular modes for carrying passengers and commodities in the country. However, recent launch accidents resulting in several thousands of injuries (both fatal and non fatal) have create...

The safety of inland passenger vessels operating in Bangladesh has been investigated. By thorough analysis of past accident data, the main causes of intact stability failures have been determined: adverse weather conditions and overloading, likely resulting in crowding to one side. Historical series of wind data were gathered and their analysis sug...

This study investigates the marine vehicle accident characteristics in the inland waterways of Bangladesh. The statistical study revealed that the leading causes of accidents were collision among ships, trawlers & country boats and loss of stability due to Nor'wester. The study also identified some other causes of accidents such as loss of stabilit...

Funding support in research and development activities in engineering and technology is indeed fundamental from national development perspective. Innovation of new ideas, technologies, products and services are essentially dependent on the continuous research and development. The paper reviews the research funding characteristics for the universiti...

This research work attempts to develop a dynamics model for ship to ship collision. The collision model is fundamentally divided into two segments namely, model for simulation before collision and model for simulation after collision. In the first part, mathematical formulations are derived for finding the possibility of a collision, determining th...

The safety of inland passenger vessels operating in Bangladesh has been investigated. By thorough analysis of the past accidents' data, the main cause behind structural failure has been found as collision. The main causes behind intact stability failures have been determined as adverse weather conditions and overloading, with consequent likely crow...

This study investigates the characteristics of passenger vessel accidents in the inland water ways of Bangladesh and attempts to identify some of the underlying causes. This study is limited to the accidents passenger vessels which occurred in the inland waters during 1995-2005. A total of 67 cases were considered in this study and the data were co...

Inland Water Transport (IWT) plays a very significant role in the transportation system of Bangladesh. Its low expenses and high accessibility, as compared with other alternatives, amplifies a great demand for carrying goods and passengers within the country. Although water transportation sector in Bangladesh possess geographical advantage but ther...

It is not very long that the great Tsunami had struck the shores of South Asia. A lot of disaster had happened particularly in the field of marine industry. Numerous numbers of ships could not survive this natural calamity. After this incident a large number of search and rescue vessels are needed. Theses vessels require a great deal of stability,...