Safety and Reliability: Methodology and Applications

Tomasz Nowakowski, Marek Młyńczak, Anna Jodejko-Pietruczuk, Sylwia Werbińska-Wojciechowska, Tomasz Nowakowski, Marek Mlynczak, Anna Jodejko-Pietruczuk, Sylwia Werbinska-Wojciechowska

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9781138026810
• eBook ISBN: 9781315736976
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Civil Engineering
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Within the last fifty years the performance requirements for technical objects and systems were supplemented with: customer expectations (quality), abilities to prevent the loss of the object properties in operation time (reliability and maintainability), protection against the effects of undesirable events (safety and security) and the ability to

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Table of contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Conference organization
• Introduction
• METHODOLOGY AREAS
• Accident and incident investigation and modelling
• An incident reporting support system for airline cabin crew
• The effect of the environment conditions on the prediction of flammable cloud dispersion
• Scenario identification in oil and gas industry: A case in the Middle East
• Analysis of roadside safety barrier using numerical model
• Developing a framework for characterising cascading failures in past events to inform emergency response decisions
• A critical evaluation of risk assessment methodology for natural gas pipeline
• An ontology-based approach to vulnerability and interdependency modelling for Critical Infrastructure systems
• Renewable sources impact on power system reliability and nuclear safety
• Titanic viewed from different perspectives on major accidents
• Usability of accident and incident reports for evidence-based risk modeling of ship grounding
• Winter navigation at the Baltic Sea: An analysis of accidents occurred during winters 2002–2003 & 2009–2013
• Structuring contributors to successful operation
• Country Safety Performance Function and the factors affecting it
• Method of dynamic identification of hazardous driver behaviour by traffic parameters detection
• The method of risk management of accidental oil spills at sea
• The impact of new technologies on the safety level of air traffic in Poland
• Black swan accidents: Predicting and preventing the unpredictable
• Analytical methods in system safety and reliability
• Studies of the jet engine control quality based on its response to the disturbance inflicted on the object, designated from its response to the set point inflicted to the controller
• The mathematical formula of safety of aircrafts
• The reliability analysis of the satellite’s driving system based on the IABCBLT method
• The effectiveness of the FMEA technology in the process of the aerospace product development
• Reliability modeling method of space mechanism considering dynamical cascading effects
• Comparative analysis of calculation methods of pressure drops for two-phase flow through pipelines
• Empirical Bayes inference with nonlinear homogenizations and correlated intensity functions: Use in asset degradation modelling
• Dependence of the gas supply system criticality indicator(s) on the system elements’ reliability
• Comparing societal consequence measures of outages in electrical distribution systems
• On the resilience analysis of interconnected systems by a set-theoretic approach
• A brief note on the ratio of the rectilinear and shortest distance between two arbitrary points on the 3-sphere
• A game-theoretical model to allocate security resources in a multi-modal transportation system facing adaptive adversaries
• Assessment of the critical events sequences of systems by means of probabilistic languages
• RAM analysis applied to decommissioning phase: Comparison and assessment of different methods to predict future failures
• Reliability indices computation for a flow network with a series-parallel-reducible structure
• Minimal cut sets and direct partial logic derivatives in reliability analysis
• On the probability of escaping a cell—in wireless networks
• Reliability analysis of ship-rope transporter with dependent components
• Maritime traffic flow simulation in the Intelligent Transportation Systems theme
• Modeling of event trees for the rapid scenario development
• The influence of screw propellers manufacturing accuracy on conditions of the propulsion system operating
• Contribution to oil data assessment for system condition determination
• Dependability and safety analysis of ERTMS level 3 using analytic estimation
• Streamlining architectures for integrated safety analysis using Design Structure Matrices (DSMs)
• The Markov reliability and safety model of the railway transportation system
• Reliability analysis of rail teleinformation system
• Premises of evaluation of the technical object suitability with including the quality of its maintenance and operation, and their initial conditions
• Bivariate reliability analysis of driving profiles in automobile fleets
• Attempt to apply the theory of reliability to assessment of signalised lane operation
• Reliability-exploitation analysis of power supply in transport telematics system
• Reliability-maintenance analysis of highway emergency communication systems
• Hierarchical random models in road transport safety
• Overall regional risk analysis of four Norwegian municipalities
• Modeling reliability of complex port transportation system
• Reliability optimization of complex port transportation system
• Involvement of expert judgement in dynamic model
• Anthropo-technical systems reliability
• Cost-benefit analysis of surveillance technologies
• Integrated estimation of pipeline failure probability
• Reliability and safety management
• Reliability engineering interactions in aerospace products
• An influence of the lifetime assessment in aviation technology
• How managers should think about risk—a case study from the oil and gas industry
• Balancing safety and performance through QRA and RAM analyses
• Public risk perception towards chemical process industry: Comprehension and response planning
• Risk assessment system for verifying the safety guards system based on the HAZOP analysis information
• Development of the Safety Requirements Specification (SRS) in oil and gas industry
• Development of functional safety standards for civil engineering
• Mechanism design for risk allocation and benefit sharing in the development of a Geological Disposal Facility for nuclear radioactive waste
• Optimization of the drinking water coagulation and filtration system as a result of reliability analysis and Life Cycle Costing
• Methods of visualizing the risk of lack of water supply
• Concept for development of safety-related filters
• Heat Supply System reliability management
• Uncertainty in the regulation systems of temporary organizations: A challenge for improving the organizational reliability
• Solutions and safety barriers: The holistic approach to risk-reducing measures
• A multi-criteria decision model to mitigate the operational risks of offshore wind infrastructures
• Evaluation of operational reliability of the supply chain in terms of the control and management of logistics processes
• Effectiveness of national transport system according to costs of emission of pollutants
• Experiments for PHM: Needs, developments and challenges
• Effects of external audits on safety management systems: A case study of the Norwegian-managed maritime industry
• Review of acceptable risk levels of bridge collapse in respect of ships collisions
• A new approach for evaluating the disruption risks of a seaport system
• Methodology for evaluation of barriers for rig move operations
• Performance of skimmers in the Arctic offshore oil spills
• Rethinking nuclear safety management: Injunction as a meta-concept
• Using IRIDM & VTA to support the risk management of the research reactor Maria
• Evaluation of risk impact of equipment ageing and asset management for LWR GEN II and III NPPs in the horizon 2020
• Safety of the new control command European System
• All swept up: An initial classification of NSA surveillance technology
• Study of the security of processes running in computer operating systems
• Control-in-the-loop Model Based Safety Analysis
• Developing a shared information surface for offshore work permits
• Graphical technique for practical dependability management
• A discussion of the risk-management and the rule-compliance regulation regimes in a security context
• Risk management in anchor-handling operations: The balance between control and autonomy
• Safety and environmental control of industrial activities in France: A negotiated relationship
• Risk assessment methods for improving urban security
• Abstract representation of power system networks as a function of regularity properties
• Drinking water quality aspect in ensuring the safety of water supply systems
• Dynamic reliability
• Using dynamic risk modelling in Single European Sky Air Traffic Management Research (SESAR)
• Modification of response spectra by probabilistic approach
• Dynamic Positioning systems with emphasis on harsh climate conditions
• Wear time-dependent reliability analysis using Bayesian inference
• RAVEN and dynamic probabilistic risk assessment: Software overview
• Integrated Deterministic Probabilistic Safety Analysis (IDPSA) of a fire scenario
• Dynamic reliability models for multiple dependent competing degradation processes
• Expert methods in system safety and reliability
• Development of a new algorithm for optimal multi-level redundancy allocation
• Aircraft crew escape system assistant
• A fuzzy system for evaluation of baggage screening devices at an airport
• Quantification and modelling of epistemic uncertainties for availability risk of future offshore wind farms using expert judgment
• Expert method and real time simulation in navigational safety analysis
• Causal modeling in industrial Reliability and Maintenance Management
• The application of risk and reliability techniques to acquire knowledge in the development of expert system for fault diagnosis
• Failure identification and degradation processes
• Life and reliability evaluation of tuner by Constant-Stress Accelerated Degradation Testing method
• Estimation of lifetimes of components that operate under ageing-attributable wearing conditions
• A Physics-of-Failure-based approach for failure behavior modeling: With a focus on failure collaborations
• Fault diagnosis method for circuit board based on BP neural networks
• Physics of Failures (POF) version B for MTBF prediction
• An adaptive fault detection threshold hardware circuit design to reduce False Alarms
• MUSTADEPT: A tool for the analysis of industrial equipment degradation
• Provision of the reliable video surveillance services in heterogeneous networks
• Identification of degradation processes of seabed protection in ports
• The use of Self-Organizing Maps for diagnosing faults in motor bearings
• Selected safety aspects of polymer composites with natural fibres
• Application of selected diffusion processes on system state assessment
• A modified Auto Associative Kernel Regression method for robust signal reconstruction in Nuclear Power Plant components
• Experimental design for the evaluation of Critical Heat Flux of small-scale pressurized nuclear reactors
• The stochastic approach in road network vulnerability analysis
• Analysis of brake testing methods in vehicle safety
• Hilbert-Huang Transforms for fault detection and degradation assessment in electrical motors
• Volatility regime switching and jump-diffusion process for prognosis: Case of equity price modeling
• Performance evaluation of Emergency Response Plans using a Multi-State System approach
• Human factors and human reliability
• The model of a pilot competency as a factor influencing the safety of air traffic
• Human Dependability Model for space application—the HuDeM project
• Towards safer air traffic: Optimizing ATC controller workload by simulation with reduced set of parameters
• Human reliability test and identification of HCR model basic parameters for multi-factor “Meta-Operation”
• Statistical analysis of past accidents and a methodology (MEDIA) for Human and Organizational Factors assessment in process industries
• Predictive Human Error Analysis in Permit To Work system in a petrochemical plant
• Anticipating impacts of change on individual behaviors within a perspective of safety management
• Modeling and assessment of Performance Shaping Factors in construction
• The impact of the use of subcontracting on organizational reliability and safety
• Human error analysis: Review of past accidents and implications for improving robustness of system design
• Operational and organizational barriers as means of enhancing safety and learning
• Presumptions of culture: Applications and safety implications
• Coding scheme to measure the operator’s workload in advanced Main Control Room
• A survey of Bayesian Belief Network Applications in Human Reliability Analysis
• Aggregating expert-elicited error probabilities to build HRA models
• Organizational factor inclusion in Human Reliability Analysis (HRA) tools
• Design methods of reducing human error in practice
• Maintenance modelling and optimisation
• A hierarchical framework for the measurement of maintenance efficacy and efficiency using performance indicators
• State of the art in Operation and Maintenance planning of offshore wind farms
• Maintenance of power systems considering time-dependent uncertainty
• Decision-making support for maintenance optimisation of natural gas compressor stations
• Optimization of maintenance and operational policies of an offshore wind farm subject to stochastic wind conditions
• An age-based preventive maintenance for offshore wind turbines
• Availability modelling and analysis of an offshore wind turbine using Extended Coloured Stochastic Petri Nets
• Maintenance in availability of weapon systems under combat operation—optimization possibilities
• Optimum CTV fleet selection for offshore wind farm O&M activities
• Practical aspects of the application of RCM to select optimal maintenance policy of the production line
• Hidden Markov Models for diagnostics and prognostics of systems under multiple deterioration modes
• Application of the Maintenance Rule to Nuclear Power Plant systems through Bayesian Networks
• Experience on risk-informed approach to Allowed Outage Time changes due planned maintenance
• Expert system for means of transport maintenance processes performance. A comparative analysis for various types of rail vehicle
• A Colored Petri Net model for railway track maintenance with two-level inspection
• Analysis of the process of unloading containers at the inland container terminal
• Reliability based model of the cost effective product reusing policy
• Asset maintenance optimization: The case-study of an offshore wind farm
• Maintenance planning for drum shearer machine based on its reliability characteristics and economical sensitivity analysis
• A guide for Block Inspection Policy implementation
• Availability model of technical objects—block inspection policy implementation
• Condition-based maintenance policies for multi-component systems with Lévy copulas dependence
• Application of standards in reliability prognosis of braking system of moving walks
• Occupational safety
• A Bayesian population variability analysis for estimation of the work time loss distributions due to occupational accidents
• Continuous monitoring of at-risk behaviours: A risk-based statistical control method
• Enhancing the implementation of Occupational Health and Safety interventions through a design of the socio-technical interaction
• A risk-based approach to manage the Occupational Hazards in the Arctic drilling waste handling practices
• Estimating individual occupational risk using registration data
• Quantification of risk rates of occupational accidents
• Quantitative risk assessment
• Reliability assessment method for Ion thruster based on competing failure analysis and performance degradation data
• Comparison of risk profiles for chemical process plants using PLATYPUS
• The use of the combination of indexing and semi-quantitative methods in audits for individual risk assessment in the field of fire and explosion protection
• Estimation of the impact probability of fragments produced by explosions of vessels: A case study
• Dynamic risk assessment: Development of a basic structure
• Joint applicability test of software for laboratory assessment and risk analysis
• Is a QRA-based method suitable to guide Land Use Planning decisions in India?
• The effect of maintenance on inflation correction in Dutch PPP projects
• Handling dependencies in Probabilistic Risk Assessments using Evidential Networks
• The use of geoevents in the risk management of Wastewater Treatments
• Utilizing knowledge-to-number-processes in smaller and less resource intensive risk assessments
• Risk assessment of ground water sources for emergency supply
• Study of volcanic Na-Tech risks in primary Waste Water Treatments
• Optimum concept of management and trade-off with risks
• Possibilistic risk analysis of failure in water supply network
• Multidimensional risk to networks of distributed systems
• Mathematics of PRA applied to Distributed Generation curtailment in saturated grids
• Priorities assignment for actions in a pipeline: A decision model to evaluate multiple objectives
• Risk assessment in heat supply system
• Vulnerability of Energy Infrastructure to intentional attacks—the interplay of resource, conflict and security
• Solar storm impact on critical infrastructure
• Accident risk assessment for deep geothermal energy systems
• Enhancement of IT Risk Assessments by UML
• Quantitative risk assessment of new ship designs in damage conditions
• Review of risk concepts and perspectives in risk assessment of maritime transportation
• Risk based assessment on increased gas safe machinery spaces of liquefied natural gas fuelled ship
• Semi-qualitative method for ship collision risk assessment
• RAPP method: Failure analysis and risk determination in automobile fleets within the case study electric actuator
• Composite methodology for tsunami vulnerability assessment based on the numerical simulation of 1755 Lisbon tsunami—application on two Portuguese coastal areas
• Monte Carlo simulation and Bayesian Evidence Synthesis
• Amendments of the existing guidance on PSA application to nuclear power plants in Germany
• Focus areas for a Level 2 PSA that supports a site NPP risk analysis
• A PSA Level-1 method with repairable components: An application to ASTRID Decay Heat Removal systems
• Effect of human factor in the analysis of changes to Limiting Conditions for Operation (LCO) applied to Residual Heat Removal System
• Application of PSA for design optimization of VVER 440/213
• Deriving a distribution for accident severity from an F-N curve
• Geospatial modelling of rail safety hazards
• Comparing the two methods for judging changes in European railways and in European nuclear safety
• Combination of technological and economical risk assessment using the Monte-Carlo-Simulation
• The results of a systematic study of the risks associated with the transportation of hazardous substances
• Preference risk assessment of hazardous substances road transportation
• Quantifying MSD risks through Job Hazard Analysis
• Handling epistemic uncertainty in the Fault Tree Analysis using interval-valued expert information
• Expressing and communicating uncertainty and bias in relation to Quantitative Risk Analysis
• Safety analysis and CFD dispersion simulation of cryogenic release in a deep underground large scale cryogenic installation
• Reliability and safety based system design
• European survey on safety methods application in aeronautic systems engineering
• Semi-formal static and dynamic modeling and categorization of airport checkpoints
• Achieving safe designs through evaluation of options at the conceptual level of safety system design
• Conventional correlation factors in the safety analysis of stochastic systems
• Safety-based approach in multifunctional building design
• Management of controls of fire protection systems in Switzerland
• Electronic components with time-dependent failure rates—reasons, values and consequences
• Availability and reliability evaluation of systems periodically maintained
• Reliability and safety based design of lifesaving appliances systems
• Nuclear power plant safety improvement with new system for safety injection
• A systematic approach for defense against transient failures
• Reliability allocation for a system with complex redundancy
• Effective searching process used in obtaining Pareto solutions of two-objective network design problem
• Reliability and safety data collection and analysis
• SYMBAD—Artificial Neural Networks in furtherance of managing aircraft testing
• Accelerated Life Test method for satellite electronic instrument
• Reliability of the airlines operations system
• Quantitative evaluation on storage reliability of pyrotechnics based on thermodynamic characteristic of dynamite and performance degradation data
• Telematics used in the campaigns machinery safety management systems
• Collection and analysis of failure data for pressure equipment
• Reliability analysis of prototypes based on small and heterogeneous test data volumes. Case study: Organic fibre prototype analysis
• How to present and understand uncertainty of production assurance analyses with respect to data quality
• Universal method of battery life prediction
• Reliability prediction of electronic boards by analyzing field return data
• A double-loop Monte Carlo approach for Part Life Data Base reconstruction and scheduled maintenance improvement
• Using field experience in the treatment of Common Cause Failures in reliability assessment
• A geometric test for the analysis of contingency tables
• Assessment of a remaining working life of energetic devices using service data
• Model for Information Quality determination of teleinformation systems of transport
• A framework proposal to analyse the performance of assets under complex system
• Proven in use in the machine tool industry for demonstrating the quantitative functional safety according to EN ISO 13849-1
• Probabilities in safety of machinery—Part 1: Risk profiling and farmer matrix
• Probabilities in safety of machinery—Part 2: Theoretical and practical design
• Research on reliability qualification test design by considering inheritance factor
• Optimal design on Accelerated Degradation Testing with Gamma process for reliability demonstration
• One producer, two brands: A comparison of car operating conditions
• Ship voyage characteristics in Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge waterway
• Fleet-level reliability estimation of repairable units
• Reliability and safety education and training
• Learning from failures: The case of Deepwater Horizon disaster
• The representation of nuclear power in cinema: The contribution of a filmic analysis to understanding the public debate
• On designing educational aids for users’ safety in road tunnels
• Public buildings safety: Addressing a pilot evacuation exercise
• Simulation methods in system safety and reliability
• A safety analysis via minimal path sets detection for object-oriented models
• The use of on-board flight recorder in the modeling process of aircraft landing operations
• Reliability analysis for Runway Overrun using subset simulation
• A meta model framework for risk analysis, diagnosis and simulation
• Proposing a multi-layer modeling framework for complex infrastructure systems
• Hybrid modeling and simulation approach selection to the reliability and vulnerability analysis of Critical Infrastructures
• Time dependent gas transmission network probabilistic simulator: Focus on storage discharge modeling
• Weekly availability changes of web applications implemented in virtualized environment
• Dynamic approach to modeling MTBF/MTTR in industrial and logistics systems
• A new Monte Carlo method for environmental contour estimation
• On multistate technical system operation process influence on its reliability
• Uncertainty improving in importance sampling: An integrated approach with fuzzy-cluster sampling
• Conversion of a based risk model into a simulation model for simulation and analysis
• Common cause failures modelling by means of Coloured Petri Nets for dependability assessment of a control system of nuclear power plant
• Propagation of aleatory and epistemic uncertainties in quantification of systems failure probabilities or safety margins
• Safe level of redundancy in Discrete Transportation Systems
• Using Petri-Net analysis for advanced reliability analysis of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells
• Analysis of ship navigation behaviors in the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge waterway
• A novel methodology for availability assessment of complex load sharing systems
• Structural reliability and safety
• Life distribution and P-S-N curve analysis of TC21 titanium alloy joint with Electron Beam Welding in ultra-high cycle fatigue regime
• Optimal design of ground-mounted solar systems
• Approximate quantification of the robustness index of concrete beams subjected to deterioration
• A condition-based deterioration model for the crack propagation in a submerged concrete structure
• Reliability assessment of cast-iron heritage structures
• Reliability of structures in national codes to Eurocodes
• On climatic actions combinations for probabilistic calibrations
• In-plane buckling behaviors of shear-deformable columns with variable cross sections
• Lateral buckling of varying arbitrary cross-section beams with shear effects
• Methodology for the quantitative risk assessment of road bridges exposed to accidental events
• Point estimate of dynamic reliability considering parameter uncertainties
• The reliability analysis of welded tanks for oil storage
• Determination of design load for a pile-guide system for large floating installations considering Life-Cycle Cost and probabilistic load distribution
• Analysis of reliability and retaining levels of safety barriers
• Safe reliability assessment through probabilistic constraint reasoning
• Structural reliability for containment of VVER 440/213 type
• Reliability updating based on monitoring of structural response parameters
• Uncertainty and sensitivity analysis
• Comparative analysis of rapid calculation methods for physical explosions of pressure vessels
• A study of determination of the design accidental fire load based on the quantitative Fire Risk Assessment with the treatment of uncertainty
• Sobol’s sensitivity analysis of stability problems of steel beams
• Quantitative vs. qualitative treatment of uncertain assumptions in risk assessment
• Comparison of uncertainty models of impact of teleinformation devices reliability on information quality
• Sensitivity analysis of geological parameters having impact on nuclear waste deep geological repository safety
• Processes reliability and safety modelling
• An impact of the operators and passengers behavior on the airport’s security screening reliability
• Risk analysis of the point on aging aircraft structure
• Risk assessment of a bulk cryogenic tank: Beyond the Leak-Before-Break criterion
• Modeling of a degradation path set with a Gamma process mixture—application to a maintenance decision rule
• Reliability of the delivery in the last 100 meters
• Risk analytics within high-precision dental tool manufacturing: Multidimensional failure probabilities and validation
• A unified model of systems dependability and process continuity for complex supply chains
• Using quantitative stochastic model checking tool to increase safety and improve efficiency in production processes
• Research on information system and its impact on distribution process of supply chain
• Availability and reliability of resources in an agile manufacturing systems
• Initial FMEA analysis of the container transport chain
• On prudent activities in a complex system
• Parallel computing for system availability and applications