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

International cooperation on reliability and accident data collection and processing, exchange of experience on actual uses of data and reliability engineering techniques is a major step in realising safer and more efficient industrial systems. This book provides an updated presentation of the activities in this field on a worldwide basis.

General Session.- Error Analysis in Man-Machine Systems.- Environmental Impact Assessment and Risk Analysis - Theoretical Background of the Computerized Methodology LIVIA.- Addressing the Problem of the Relevance of Reliability Data to Varied Applications.- OREDA Session.- Planning and Management of the Offshore Reliability Data Project.- OREDA Phase II Data Collection Experience.- Failure Rate Estimation Based on Data from Different Environments and with Varying Quality.- Session 1: Reliability Data Banks.- Data Selection for Probabilistic Safety Assessment.- A Reliability Data Bank for the Natural Gas Distribution Industry.- Guidelines for Process Equipment Reliability Data by CCPS.- Session 2: Incidents Data Banks.- IFP Databanks on Offshore Accidents.- OCAAR: A Tool for Incident Analysis, Reporting and Processing.- Session 3: Common Cause Data.- Common-Cause Failures - Evidence from Sellafield.- Stochastic Reliability Analysis - Its Applications to Complex Redundancy Systems.- The Distributed Failure Probability Approach to Dependent Failure Analysis and its Application.- DEFEND - A Dependent Failures Database.- Session 4: Uncertainties - Source and Propagation.- An Analytic Method to Estimate Uncertainty in a Risk Function.- Modeling of Fuzzy Measurements in Reliability Estimation.- Evaluation of the Probability Distribution of Evacuation Time from a Light Railway Transport Station.- Session 5: Computer Aided Risk Analysis.- Computer Aided Reliability and Risk Assessment.- Hazard Identification: A Proposal for a New Development.- Deliverability of the Danish Natural Gas System *.- A Prototype Expert System to Perform Safety Evaluation of Alternative Architectures for Offshore Platforms.- Session 6: Reliability and Incidents Data Acquisition and Processing.- Report on the On-Going EuReDatA Benchmark Exercise on Data Analysis.- Expert Opinions as Data Source: Methods and Experiences.- The Analysis of Electronic Component Reliability Data.- An Intelligent End-User Interface for the Collection and Processing of Accident Data.- Physics Models for Reliability Data Processing.- A. Database for Reliability Data Processing *.- Session 7: Human Reliability.- Human Reliability Assessment and Probabilistic Risk Assessment.- Human Reliability Data Collection for Qualitative Modeling and Quantitative Assessment.- Quantification of Human Reliability.- Treatment of Uncertainties in Human Reliability Analysis.- Information and Communication Technology in the British Coal Industry - Systems Management and the Organisation and Reliability of Production and Maintenance Work.- Session 8: Probabilistic Safety and Availability Assessment.- ESFAS: An Information System on Worldwide Nuclear Power Stations.- Availability Assessment of a Technological Railway Information System.- Assessment of Failure Probabilities of Launch and Orbital Manoeuvres of Satellites.- Investigation of the Safety of a Ship Propulsion System by Monte Carlo Technique.- From the Plant Risk Analysis to the Area Risk Management: Problems and Perspectives.- Risk Analysis of a Large Pharmaceutical Factory - Methods Developed and Main Results *.- Risk Analysis of Dangerous Good Transport in Spain.- Criteria for the Brazilian Directive on High Risk Plants - Recent Developments.- Design Optimization of New Plants by Reliability Engineering Methodologies: Application to a Subsea Pumping Station.- Risk Analysis of Large Petrochemical and Refining Plants - A Method for Tracking Complexity Based on Accident Experience and Indexing Techniques *.- Risk Assessment of Operational Aspects in Offshore Drilling.- Availability Assessment of Complex Distributed Control System of a Petro Chemical Plant.- Reliability Assessment of a Charging Machine for Radioactive Waste Disposal.- The Availability of a Set of Inhomogeneous Machines.- Availability of the Pressure Relief Panel System at Pickering ‘A’ Nuclear Generating Station.- Comparative Availability and Reliability Assessment of Design Options for the Secondary Sodium Loops of the EFR.- Acetylene’s Plant Risk Analysis *.- Risk Analysis of Areas with High Concentration of Industrial Activities: Methodology used for Priolo and Naples Areas.- Risk Assessment for Transportation of Dangerous Materials - A Comparative Study.- Effect of Maintenance Factors on Risk and Adequacy of Power Generation.- Session 9: Feedback of Reliability into System Design, Operation and Management.- An Analysis of Accidents with Casualities in the Chemical Industry Based on Historical Facts.- Reliability Follow-Up in the Pre-Production Process at Volvo Car Corporation.- Issues Associated with the Development of Nuclear Power Plant “Program Effectiveness” Indicators for Regulatory Use.- The Role of a Disturbance Analysis and Surveillance System for the Operation and Management of Complex Plants.- Session 10: Data Fusion.- Data Fusion Problems in an Intelligent Data Bank Interface.- Measures of Dissimilarities for Contrasting Information Sources in Data Fusion.- A Methodology for a Fuzzy Expert System for Reliability and Safety Assessment *.- Session 11: Reliability Modeling and Techniques.- Computing Cumulative Measures in Reward Stochastic Processes by a Phase-Type Approximation.- The Use of Data to Identify Systems for Reliability Assessment Using Monte-Carlo Simulation Techniques.- Data Analysis and Modeling in the Evaluation of Multiple System Organ Failure.- Real-time Operational Reliability.- The Operational Failure Rate Modeling from a Reliability Data Bank *.- The Two-Sample Problem and its Practical Applications to Reliability Data Sets.- Implementing Stochastic Filtering for Reliability Applications - The Arc Code.- A Developed flow Graph Method.- Session 12: Structural and Mechanical Reliability.- KODABA - A Corrosion Data Information System.- The Evaluation of Mechanical Resistance of Storage Tanks Exposed to Fire by Using Data Bank Information.- Database of Mechanical Components in a Refinery - Structure and Operational Criteria for Inspection Planning and Reliability Evaluations.- Applicability of First Order Reliability Methods - A State of the Art.- Estimate of Reliability Characteristics and Maintenance of Building Machines by Applying Statistics of Extreme Values.- Session 13: Consequence Modeling.- VVF SIGEM: A Computerized System for the Emergencies Management.- Heavy Gas Dispersion.- How to Evaluate the Risk When the Media Impacted is Water? A Review of the Available Simulation Codes, Their Accuracy, Applicability, Credibility *.- Session 14: Software Reliability.- Software Data Collection and the Software Data Library.- Software Reliability Data Collection - Problems and Possibilities *.- Session 15: Electronic Reliability.- An Integrated Data Base and Reliability Assessment of Electrical Distribution Systems.- Field Failure Data Collection and Analysis of Repairable Systems.- Session 16: Reliability Tests.- Accelerated Test Procedure for Estimating Proportion of Early Failures of Metal Film Resistors.- Reliability Demonstration and Field Analysis of a Communications Controller.- Bayes Optimal Burn-In-Times.- Closing Session.- Review of the EuReDatA Project Groups’ Activities and Results.- * Contributions marked * were not available at the time of printing.