Reliability Data Collection and Use in Risk and Availability Assessment: Proceedings of the 6th EuReDatA Conference Siena, Italy, March 15 – 17, 1989

Front Matter....Pages I-XIV
Error Analysis in Man-Machine Systems....Pages 1-14
Environmental Impact Assessment and Risk Analysis. Theoretical Background of the Computerized Methodology “LIVIA”....Pages 15-27
Addressing the Problem of the Relevance of Reliability Data to Varied Applications....Pages 28-38
Planning and Management of the Offshore Reliability Data Project (OREDA)....Pages 39-50
OREDA Phase II Data Collection Experience....Pages 51-67
Failure Rate Estimation Based on Data from Different Environments and with Varying Quality....Pages 68-79
Data Selection for Probabilistics Safety Assessment....Pages 80-89
A Reliability Data Bank for the Natural Gas Distribution Industry....Pages 90-103
Guidelines for Process Equipment Reliability Data by CCPS....Pages 104-114
IFP Databanks on Offshore Accidents....Pages 115-128
OCAAR: A Tool for Incident Analysis, Reporting and Processing....Pages 129-140
Common-Cause Failures — Evidence from Sellafield....Pages 141-154
Stochastic Reliability Analysis — Its Application to Complex Redundancy Systems....Pages 155-166
The Distributed Failure Probability Approach to Dependent Failure Analysis, and Its Application....Pages 167-177
DEFEND—A Dependent Failures Database....Pages 178-194
An Analytic Method to Estimate Uncertainty in a Risk Function....Pages 195-205
Modeling of Fuzzy Measurements in Reliability Estimation....Pages 206-211
Evaluation of the Probability Distribution of Evacuation Time from a Light Railway Transport Station....Pages 212-226
Computer Aided Reliability and Risk Assessment....Pages 227-237
Hazard Identification: A Proposal for a New Development....Pages 238-245
A Prototype Expert System to Perform Safety Evaluation of Alternative Architectures for Offshore Platforms....Pages 246-252
Report on the On-Going EUREDATA Benchmark Exercise on Data Analysis....Pages 253-261
Expert Opinions as Data Source: Methods and Experiences....Pages 262-285
The Analysis of Electronic Component Reliability Data....Pages 286-309
An Intelligent End-User Interface for the Collection and Processing of Accident Data....Pages 310-323
Physics Models for Reliability Data Processing....Pages 324-342
Human Reliability Assessment and Probabilistic Risk Assessment....Pages 343-357
Human Reliability Data Collection for Qualitative Modelling and Quantitative Assessment....Pages 358-370
Quantification of Human Reliability....Pages 371-384
Treatment of Uncertainties in Human Reliability Analysis....Pages 385-400
Information and Communication Technology in the British Coal Industry—Systems Management and the Organisation and Reliability of Production and Maintenance Work....Pages 401-412
ESFAS: An Information System on Worldwide Nuclear Power Stations....Pages 413-420
Availability Assessment of a Technological Railway Information System....Pages 421-435
Assessment of Failure Probabilities of Launch and Orbital Manoeuvres of Satellites....Pages 436-446
Investigation of the Safety of a Ship Propulsion System by Monte Carlo Technique....Pages 447-454
From the Plant Risk Analysis to the Area Risk Management: Problems and Perspectives....Pages 455-463
Risk Analysis of Dangerous Goods Transport in Spain....Pages 464-476
Criteria for the Brazilian Directive on High Risk Plants Recent Developments....Pages 477-488
Design Optimization of New Plants by Reliability Engineering Methodologies: Application to a Subsea Pumping Station....Pages 489-508
Risk Assessment of Operational Aspects in Offshore Drilling....Pages 509-523
Availability Assessment of Complex Distributed Control System of a Petro Chemical Plant....Pages 524-530
Reliability Assessment of a Charging Machine for Radioactive Waste Disposal....Pages 531-540
The Availability of a Set of Inhomogeneous Machines....Pages 541-547
Availability of the Pressure Relief Panel System at Pickering “A” Nuclear Generating Station....Pages 548-562
Comparative Availability and Reliability Assessment of Design Options for the Secondary Sodium Loops of the EFR....Pages 563-577
Risk Analysis of Areas with High Concentration of Industrial Activities: Methodology Used for Priolo and Naples Areas (Italy)....Pages 578-582
Risk Assessment for Transportation of Dangerous Materials — A Comparative Study....Pages 583-592
Effect of Maintenance Factors on Risk and Adequacy of Power Generation....Pages 593-600
An Analysis of Accidents with Casualities in the Chemical Industry Based on Historical Facts....Pages 601-620
Reliability Follow-Up in the Pre-Production Process at Volvo Car Corporation....Pages 621-628
Issues Associated with the Development of Nuclear Power Plant “Programm Effectiveness” Indicators for Regulatory Use....Pages 629-642
The Role of a Disturbance Analysis and Surveillance System for the Operation and Management of Complex Plants....Pages 643-654
Data Fusion Problems in Intelligent Data Banks Interface....Pages 655-670
Measures of Dissimilarities for Contrasting Information Sources in Data Fusion....Pages 671-681
Computing Cumulative Measures in Reward Stochastic Processes by a Phase-Type Approximation....Pages 682-693
The Use of Data to Identify Systems for Reliability Assessment Using Monte-Carlo Simulation Techniques....Pages 694-704
Data Analysis and Modelling in the Evaluation of Multiple System Organ Failure....Pages 705-709
Real-Time Operational Reliability....Pages 710-715
The Two-Sample Problem and its Practical Applications to Reliability Data Sets....Pages 716-732
Implementing Stochastic Filtering for Reliability Applications — The Arc Code....Pages 733-745
A Development Flow Graph Method....Pages 746-760
KODABA — A Corrosion Data Information System....Pages 761-771
The Evaluation of Mechanical Resistance of Storage Tanks Exposed to Fire by Using Data Bank Information....Pages 772-780
Database of Mechanical Components in a Refinery. Structure and Operational Criteria for Inspection Planning an Reliability Evaluations....Pages 781-790
Applicability of First Order Reliability Methods A State of the Art....Pages 791-801
Estimate of Reliability Characteristics and Maintenance of Building Machines by Applying Statistics of Extreme Values....Pages 802-809
VVF SIGEM: A Computerized System for the Emergencies Management....Pages 810-818
Heavy Gas Dispersion....Pages 819-823
Software Data Collection and the Software Data Library....Pages 824-839
An Integrated Data Base and Reliability Assessment of Electrical Distribution Systems....Pages 840-847
Field Failure Data Collection and Analysis of Repairable Systems....Pages 848-858
Accelerated Test Procedure for Estimating Proportion of Early Failures of Metal Film Resistors....Pages 859-870
Reliability Demonstration and Field Analysis of a Communications Controller....Pages 871-886
Bayes Optimal Burn-In-Times....Pages 887-895
Review of the EuReDatA Project Groups’ Activities and Results....Pages 896-906