Engineering Asset Management and Infrastructure Sustainability: Proceedings of the 5th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM 2010)

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Plant Asset Management Today and Tomorrow....Pages 1-17
A Prognostics and Health Management for Information and Electronics-Rich Systems....Pages 19-30
Acoustic Emission Technology for Assessing Gas Void Fraction Levels in Two-Phase Flow....Pages 31-38
The Role of Very Detailed Soil Environment (VDSE) Maps in Assessing the Performance of Buried Water Pipes....Pages 39-53
Managing Public Assets Towards Service Delivery Compliance....Pages 55-60
Risk Modeling and Analysis for Sustainable Asset Management....Pages 61-75
An Approach to Estimate the Probability in Meeting Army Maintenance Personnel Requirements....Pages 77-86
Wear Mechanisms in Pneumatic Conveying of Sand and Analysis of Predictive Model for Pipeline Thickness Loss....Pages 87-99
Novel Application of Laser Scanning Confocal Microscope in Analysis of Single Particle Impact on Ductile Surfaces....Pages 101-111
The Study of Gearbox Condition Maintenance Policy Based on Proportional Hazards Model....Pages 113-119
Statistical Activity Cost Regression Analysis of a Scheduling Problem....Pages 121-131
Fault Diagnosis of Gearbox Based on Interpolated DFT with the Maximum Sidelobe Decay Windows....Pages 133-141
Diagnostics of Internal Combustion Engine Mechanical Faults Masked by Adaptive Control Systems....Pages 143-154
Indentation Size Effect and Strain Rate Sensitivity of Nanocrystalline MG–AL Alloys....Pages 155-163
Council Building Management Practices, Case Studies and Road Ahead....Pages 165-179
Managing Offshore Wind Energy Assets: On the Systematic Development of an Integrated Architecture....Pages 181-193
Identifying Differences in Wet and Dry Road Crashes Using Data Mining....Pages 195-210
Maintenance Management of Concrete Infrastructure Considering Extent of Corrosion-Induced Damage....Pages 211-226
Field-Force Enablement in Australian Asset Management Organisations—A Complete Study....Pages 227-242
Reliability Prediction Using the Non-Parametric Explicit Hazard Model: A Case Study....Pages 243-250
An Architectural Concept for the CIEAM Enterprise Bus....Pages 251-261
The Characteristic of the Acoustic Emission Signal in Rotating Shaft with Crack....Pages 263-273
Managing Complex Engineering Projects with Design Structure Matrix Methods....Pages 275-282
An Object Oriented Road Asset Information Model....Pages 283-297
Information and Operational Technologies Governance Framework for Engineering Asset Management....Pages 299-313
Enterprise Architectures for Information and Operational Technologies for Asset Management....Pages 315-328
Contracting and Asset Management: Establishing an Asset Specificity Framework for Determining the Optimal Management of Tourism Infrastructure....Pages 329-336
Inspection Intervals, Risk and Bushfires....Pages 337-345
Safety Critical Elements in Asset Management....Pages 347-357
Ferromagnetism in Compression Stressed Transitional Bulk Nanostructured FE 50 AL 50 Alloy....Pages 359-374
Life Cycle Costing in High Complex Industries—Developing and Applying a Life Cycle Costing Approach in the Railway Industry....Pages 375-389
Molecular Mechanics Investigations on Interfacial Properties in Nano-Materials due to Van der Waals and Electrostatic Coulombic Interactions....Pages 391-415
Development of Diagnostic and Prognostic Algorithms from Vacuum Circuit Breaker Restrike Review and its Validation Proposal....Pages 417-440
Asset Management Key Areas for Financial Success....Pages 441-458
A Study on the Use of Acoustic Emission Technique as a Structural Health Monitoring Tool....Pages 459-469
Integrated Approach for HP-LNG Pump Diagnostics and Prognostics Based on Health State Probability Estimation....Pages 471-487
Acoustic Emission for Diesel Engine Monitoring: A Review and Preliminary Analysis....Pages 489-499
Characteristic Analysis of AE Signal Caused by Crack Growth....Pages 501-507
ASSET: Appropriate Spares Supply and Efficient Transportation Management....Pages 509-518
How to Develop a Practical Asset Management Tool?....Pages 519-529
Developing Knowledge–Intensive Product–Service Systems–Interview Results from Finnish Manufacturing Companies....Pages 531-542
Towards an Asset Management Framework of Asset Characteristics, Asset Environment, Lifecycle Phases, and Management....Pages 543-556
The Fault Diagnosis and Monitoring of Rotating Machines by Thermography....Pages 557-565
The Electromechanical Impedance Method and its Application for Paint Coating Damage Detection....Pages 567-580
Hydrothermal Synthesis of Single Crystallin Strontium Titanate Nanocubes....Pages 581-586
Diesel Engine Problems, Acoustic Emission Signals and Simulated Misfire Faults....Pages 587-598
Road Networks Management Under Uncertainty: A Stochastic Based Model....Pages 599-611
The Exemplification of Governance Principles within State Asset Management Laws and Policies: The Case of Indonesia....Pages 613-631
Bringing the MIMOSA OSA-EAI into an Object-Oriented World....Pages 633-646
Ontology-Based Implementation of an Advanced Method for Time Treatment in Asset Lifecycle Management....Pages 647-662
Availability of a General Repairable k-out-of-n:G System Considering Shut-Off Rules....Pages 663-673
The Evaluation Method of Human–Machine–Environment Systems Operation Quality....Pages 675-691
Use Rule Based to Predict Dirty Values....Pages 693-703
Stochastic and Jerky Nature of Plasticity in Small Material Volumes....Pages 705-711
Temperature Dependent Electrical Resistivity in Epoxy—Multiwall Carbon Nanotube Nanocomposites....Pages 713-723
An Integrated Software for Machine Diagnostics and Prognostics Using Wireless Sensors....Pages 725-738
Structurally Integrated Thick Film Acoustic Emission Sensors....Pages 739-747
Estimation of Rail Failure Parameters for Developing Rail Maintenance Models....Pages 749-758
Human Dimensions in Integrated Asset Management....Pages 759-777
Simulation of AE Wave Propagation in Thin Plate for Source Identification....Pages 779-788
Strategic Maintenance Improvement: Driving forces and Obstacles....Pages 789-800
Towards Policy-Driven Performance Reporting: The Case of Waterway Infrastructure....Pages 801-811
A Technical Architecture Development of Social Infrastructure Asset Managmement Information Systems in Korea....Pages 813-827
Enhanced Kernel Method for Modelling Failure Probability Density Functions....Pages 829-845
Risk Analysis of Diagnostic Facilities–Man–Machine–Environment System....Pages 847-852
SIMPLE—Sustainable Infrastructure Management Program Learning Environment....Pages 853-863
Research into Infrastructure Systems Vulnerability, Risk Exposure, and Sustainable Adaptive Capacity to Hazardous Conditions....Pages 865-883
Renewal Decision Support for Linear Assets....Pages 885-899
To Keep Transport Device Availability Base on RCM Approach....Pages 901-912
To Ensure Transport System Availability Based on Maintenance Decision Solutions....Pages 913-918
Asset Management: Middle East Style....Pages 919-929
Through-Life Management of Engineering Assets....Pages 931-944
Strategic Infrastructure Asset Management: The Way Forward....Pages 945-958
Machine Performance Degradation Assessment and Remaining Useful Life Prediction Using Proportional Hazard Model and SVM....Pages 959-970
Factors Influencing Local Government Capital Works Procurement: Developing a Research Agenda....Pages 971-980
Managing Metadata Towards Enhanced Data Quality in Asset Management....Pages 981-994
Technology Development for Application in Indian Railways....Pages 995-1010
Thin Film Solar Cells Based on Cu 2 ZnSnS 4 Absorber....Pages 1011-1018
Atomic Force Microscopy Investigation on Young’s Modulus of Cartilage for Osteoarthritis Study....Pages 1019-1025
Preliminary Study on Bridge Health Prediction Using Dynamic Objective Oriented Bayesian Network (DOOBN)....Pages 1027-1042
Asset Risk Management: Issues in the Design and Use of the Risk Matrix....Pages 1043-1059
Benchmarking Information Quality Performance in Asset Intensive Organisations in the UK....Pages 1061-1075
Use of Analytic Hierarchy Process for Assessment of Transport System Operation Safety....Pages 1077-1087
Integrated Management Asset Approach to Human–Device Set....Pages 1089-1094
Separation of Acoustic Emission Signals From Small Size Multi-Cylinder Diesel Engine....Pages 1095-1109
Analysis of Conical-Cylinder Shells Fundamental Characteristics for Structural Health Diagnostics....Pages 1111-1124
Time–Frequency Energy Spectrum Analysis Technique in Main Joints Fault Diagnosis of Quayside Container Crane Track Based on Hilbert–Huang Transform....Pages 1125-1135
Handling Incomplete Data in Survival Analysis with Multiple Covariates....Pages 1137-1146
Development of Oxide Dispersion Strengthened Steels for High Temperature Nuclear Structural Applications....Pages 1147-1160