Safety and Reliability, Volume 2

Proceedings of the ESREL 2003 Conference, Maastricht, the Netherlands, 15-18 June 2003

ESREL Conference Editors

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2026
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040897324
• Subtopic: Industrial Health & Safety
• Index: Technology & Engineering

This volume represents the proceedings of the Esrel 2003, European Safety And Reliability Conference held in Netherlands. The conference focused on the application of safety, reliability and risk management assessment techniques occurs across domains.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Sponsors
• Benchmark risk analysis models used in the Netherlands
• Implementing a three-dimensional stochastic model of the subsurface in current geotechnical design methods
• Reliability analysis of flood defence systems in the Netherlands
• Application of response surfaces for reliability analysis of marine structures
• Investigating effects of volume of mechanical components on structure reliability
• An application of ARIPAR methodology to manage the risk and the environment impact in the industrial area of Gela
• Managing a new product development using the Reliability and Quality Matrix
• Library prototype for reliable distributed system
• Quantitative flood risk assessment for polders
• What the management of industrial risk has to say about health care risk management
• Fuzzy logic: a modelling tool for transient diagnostics
• Sensitivity analysis in Monte Carlo simulation for dependability analysis
• A fuzzy model for the estimate of the accident rate in road transport of hazardous materials
• An approach to aggregate public opinions and experts' judgement with application to risk perception of sources of electrical supply
• On the need of considering the risk dimension in electrical supply capacity planning
• Exploratory data analysis approaches to reliability: some new directions
• Implementation of a reliability database within a medium sized defence and aerospace company
• Application of Quantitative Risk Assessment in various industrial sectors
• Improvement of rule sets for Quantitative Risk Assessment in various industrial sectors
• Multi-physics analysis — a method for the design of safe pressurised systems to resist accidental fire
• Using expert-opinions, retro-analyzes and experience feedback to risk-analysis and risk-hierarchization: application to the Lorraine ferriferous basin (France)
• A model simulating combustion of solids and its use in fire analysis with the code ECART
• Economic Accidental Risk Analysis: experience from real life projects
• Comparison of techniques for accident scenario analysis in hazardous systems
• Bayesian computation of design discharges
• Risk optimization on CAREM-25 NPP
• Experience with complex technical and organizational changes in the offshore petroleum industry
• Effect of a concrete wall in the limitation of thermal radiation resulting from large industrial fires
• Improving the reliability of a SMPS by HALT and ALT
• Practical reliability assurance through modelling and DRACAS
• Determination of marginal reliability indices in a distribution network
• Study of the increases of dose and of the mortality index caused by a fire due to the presence of the paving
• A model to predict hurricanes induced losses for residential structures
• A mixed integer optimisation model for preventive maintenance of production plants
• ARAMIS project: the severity index
• On the influence of passive states on the availability of mechanical systems
• Risk to old bridges due to ship impact on German inland waterways
• Integrated navigation system — safety prediction model for ship retrofit strategy
• On modelling reliability properties in descriptor form
• A scheme for industry–academia interaction to enhance research and development issues
• Optimal redundancy allocation for systems considering common-cause failures
• Proposal for a neural network approach and ordering heuristic for the fault tree evaluation
• Application of functional hazard assessment in railway signalling
• Aviation causal model using Bayesian Belief Nets to quantify management influence
• Causal modeling for integrated safety at airports
• Assessing part conformance by Coordinate Measuring Machines
• Hazardous materials release analysis: probabilistic input for emergency response organisations
• On a Bayesian model for failures prediction in underground trains
• Attuning the task design to “envisioned” high-demand situations
• Risk analysis of Black Sea underwater passage of Russia-Turkey trunk gas pipeline system
• The use of probit functions in the quantitative risk assessment of domino accidents caused by overpressure
• Application of sensitivity analysis for a risk analysis tool for blowouts
• The new Dutch “Register for risk situations involving hazardous substances”
• Boiler plant hazard assessment — a new requirement of the Finnish pressure equipment legislation
• Apportionment of safety integrity levels in complex electronically controlled systems
• A design methodology for embedded control systems including safety assessment studies
• Criteria for safety culture assessment in German Nuclear Power Plants
• Replacement strategies of large numbers of similar components in hydraulic structures
• System reliability methods using advanced sampling techniques
• Effect of soil-structure models on stochastic response of jack-up platforms
• System reliability of jack-up structures based on fatigue degradation
• Correlation in probabilistic safety assessment uncertainty analysis
• Experience with the use of risk assessment in IMO
• Criteria for establishing risk acceptance
• Risk assessment of passenger vessels
• Measuring the safety standard of organizations
• Application of a Bayesian approach to sequential life testing with an underlying Weibull model
• Establishing steel rail reliability by combining fatigue tests, factorial experiments and data transformations
• Improved methods of power systems availability indices determination
• The safety of risk or the risk of safety?
• Safety assessment of third parties during construction in multiple use of space using Bayesian Networks
• A logarithmic approach for individual risk: the safety-index
• Reduced vertical separation minimum (RVSM): pre- and post-implementation safety cases
• Assessment of the environment vulnerability in the surroundings of an industrial site
• Increasing of the electric safety in HV systems by means of the ground resistance of the body
• A Safety Program Framework and its application on a Weapon Control System
• Cognitive analysis in human reliability: the case of a high-risk plant
• Draft european standard on safety risk assessment for space missions
• Extended stochastic petri nets in power systems maintenance models
• An implementation of a life-cycle risk-based design for safety methodology
• Availability and failure intensity under imperfect repair virtual age model
• Quantification and uncertainties of common cause failure rates and probabilities
• Risk assessment for offshore installations in the operational phase
• Structured approach to risk indicators for major hazards
• A contribution to vehicle life cycle cost modelling
• Method for correlation of failure data from durability tests and field of automotive engine parts with spontaneous failure mode
• Time-dependent reliability analysis of coastal flood defence systems
• Adding a new perspective to the existing results by baseline NPP PSA model: parameters uncertainty implementation
• Impact of river morphology on extreme flood level prediction: a probabilistic approach
• Efficiency and accuracy of Monte Carlo (importance) sampling
• Optimizing software system design with recovery blocks considering reliability estimation uncertainty
• The fireworks disaster in Enschede: overview, reconstruction, safety and pyrotechnics
• Consequence modelling of gas explosion scenarios in traffic tunnels
• Scenario Analysis for Road Tunnels
• Risk based maintenance of civil structures
• Modelling a probabilistic safety management system for the Eastern-Scheldt storm-surge barrier, the basin and the surrounding dikes
• Reliability of vibration predictions in civil engineering applications
• The development of software tools for chemical process quantitative risk assessment over two decades
• Introduction of an easy-to-use risk assessment tool for natural gas transmission pipelines
• Towards a qualitative predictive model of violation in transportation industry
• Measuring the reliability importance of components in multi-state systems
• Probabilistic aspects of maritime transport of tunnel elements
• Foundations of the UPM common cause method
• Author Index