Reliability Data Collection and Use in Risk and Availability Assessment: Proceedings of the 5th EuReDatA Conference, Heidelberg, Germany, April 9–11, 1986

Front Matter....Pages I-XVI
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Data Situation and the Quality of Risk Assessment....Pages 3-15
Reliability Engineering in Europe....Pages 16-23
1984: A Year of Industrial Catastrophies. Would Preliminary Risk Analysis Have Avoided Many of them?....Pages 24-37
Status of the OREDA Project....Pages 38-46
EuReDatA — Project Groups: An Overview of Objectives and Results....Pages 47-56
A Guide to Reliability Data Collection, Validation and Storage....Pages 57-65
The Use of Nuclear Power Plant Operating Experience in Probabilistic Safety Assessment....Pages 66-73
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
Reliability Data Bank in Electronics: ITALTEL Experience over 10 Years of Operation....Pages 77-82
Component Event Data Bank Fast Breeder Reactors....Pages 83-89
The Organization and Collection of System’s Data in Fusion....Pages 90-99
HARIS — an Information System for Reliability and Risk Studies....Pages 100-109
Classification Scheme for Process Plants....Pages 110-119
Merging of Heterogeneous Data Sources on Nuclear Power Plant Operating Experience....Pages 120-129
A Survey on Industrial Accident Data Bases....Pages 130-136
Data Bank of Events with the Rijnmond Process Industry....Pages 137-145
SONATA: An Accident Data Base for Industrial Activities and Transport. Scope, Organization and Main Results....Pages 146-156
Front Matter....Pages 157-157
Computerized Data Handling and Data Storage on Production Control of Aircraft Components and Test Equipment Reliability....Pages 159-164
Reliability Data Collection on IC and VLSI Devices Tested under Accelerated Life Conditions....Pages 165-176
Field Data as a Correction of Mil-Handbook Estimates....Pages 177-185
Developing Replacement Policies for Failing Components Using Discriminant Analysis....Pages 186-193
Front Matter....Pages 157-157
Statistical Inference by the Use of Truncated Exponential Distribution: Estimates with Failure and Survival Times....Pages 194-203
Analysis of the Component Event Data Bank (CEDB) of the European Reliability Data System (ERDS): General Lines of Investigation and Objectives....Pages 204-213
Data Treatment and Trend Analysis at SKI....Pages 214-228
Multiple Correspondence Analysis of Abnormal Event Data from Nuclear Power Plants....Pages 229-240
Front Matter....Pages 241-241
New Developments in Probabilistic Risk Assessment Methodology for Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facilities....Pages 243-252
Use of PRA Methods in the Safety Analysis of Nuclear Waste Facilities....Pages 253-262
Use of the Steady States Method in the Probabilistic Safety Analysis of an Encapsulation Plant for Spent Fuel Elements....Pages 263-272
Assessment of PSA Methods and Procedures: a Wide Scoping European Research Programme....Pages 273-280
A Feedback of the Probabilistic Safety Study (S.P.S.) into P.U.N. Design....Pages 281-288
The Influence of Reliability and Safety on System Design....Pages 289-300
The Viggen Aircraft Radar, Reliability Achievement....Pages 301-313
Relevance of Availability Evaluation Methodologies to Consumer Products Manufacturing Systems....Pages 314-321
Availability Study of a Polyethylene Plant....Pages 322-331
Availability and Risk Assessment of Power and Chemical Plants Utilizing PEAT....Pages 332-343
Risk Analysis of a Large Tank Farm of Liquefied Petroleum Gases....Pages 344-356
Assessment of Accident Frequencies and Consequences for a New Danish Tunnel....Pages 357-363
Safety Assessment of Offshore Installations Using a Computer Model....Pages 364-373
Reliability Data Required for a Seismic Risk Assessment....Pages 374-383
Structural and Mechanical Reliability Assessment in Ship Design and Operation....Pages 384-393
Data Acquisition, Probabilistic Design and Safety Margins at the Eastern Scheldt Barrier Project....Pages 394-404
Front Matter....Pages 405-405
On the Correlation of Failure Rates....Pages 407-413
Intelligent Use of Sparse Data for Risk Assessment of Rare Events, a Case Study....Pages 414-421
The Choice of Appropriate Reliability Data as a Descision Problem....Pages 422-430
Collection and Usage of Reliability Data for Risk Analysis of LNG Storage Tanks....Pages 431-440
Accuracy of Reliability Data for LPG System Components....Pages 441-441
Front Matter....Pages 443-443
Using a Simulation Model to Represent the Time Dependence of Human Reliability....Pages 445-454
Human Performance: What Improvement from Human Reliability Assessment....Pages 455-465
Fundamental Constraints on Some Event Data....Pages 466-490
Front Matter....Pages 491-491
Measures of Aging in Model Construction and Identification....Pages 493-500
Identification of the Important Parameters of Complex Systems by a Bayesian Approach....Pages 501-506
A Reliability Modelling and Prediction Methodology for Use in Aircraft Design....Pages 507-515
A Reliability Simulation Language for Reliability Analysis....Pages 516-525
Study of a PWR Component Cooling Water System by the DISCO Methodology....Pages 526-534
Program Stucture and Software Reliability....Pages 535-544
Probabilistic Safety Assessment (Reference to an Onshore Separating Plant)....Pages 545-553
Techniques for Accident Sequence Quantification in PRA Studies....Pages 554-563
Plant and Control System Reliability and Risk Model....Pages 564-572
Interactive Reliability Assessment Using an Integrated Reliability Data Bank....Pages 573-581
Coupling Markov and Fault Tree Techniques for Calculating System Reliability....Pages 582-590
Modelling a Drilling Procedure....Pages 591-605
Front Matter....Pages 491-491
A Performance Oriented Reliability Model of a Pumping Station in a Fire Protection System....Pages 606-614
Application Areas of the DYLAM Approach to the Safety Analysis of Chemical Processes....Pages 615-623
Proportional Hazard Modelling in the Analysis of Transmission Failure Statistics....Pages 624-633
An Application of Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) Techniques to the Safety Analsysis of a PWR Nuclear Power Plant....Pages 634-643
Front Matter....Pages 645-645
Studies of the Economic Impact of Unreliability....Pages 647-654
The Role of Instrumentation in Incidents....Pages 655-662
Control Room Ventilation Design Improvement Following Alto Lazio Station Reliability Analysis....Pages 663-670
Reliable Design and Operation of the ECC System for a Heavy Water Moderated Nuclear Research Reactor....Pages 671-680
Optimized Preventive Replacement Policy for Large Cascade Systems....Pages 681-687
Front Matter....Pages 689-689
Navigational High-Level Interface for an Expert Data Base....Pages 691-698
Artificial Intelligence Techniques for the European Reliability Data System (ERDS)....Pages 699-711
Expert Systems and an Application for Advanced Data Retrieval....Pages 712-720