1st Edition

Safety and Reliability of Industrial Products, Systems and Structures

Edited By Carlos Guedes Soares Copyright 2010

    Safety and Reliability of Industrial Products, Systems and Structures deals with risk assessment, which is a fundamental support for decisions related to the design, construction, operation and maintenance of industrial products, systems and infrastructures. Risks are influenced by design decisions, by the process of construction of systems and infrastructures, and by the way in which they are operated and maintained. The importance of all these aspects vary in the various phases and types of activities, and different methods have been developed to deal with them.

    Risk analysis, structural reliability and human reliability analysis concentrate on different aspects that complement each other, and in many cases they can be considered separately. As a result of this, and of the different characteristics of the techniques, until today the respective specialists have had little interaction, and not enough efforts have been made to integrate methods. This book, the result of SAFERELNET, a thematic network of 67 organizations from industry, universities and research organizations from 18 countries, is a first attempt to overcome this. Since 2001, SAFERELNET has dealt with providing safe and cost-effective solutions for industrial products, systems, facilities and structures across different industrial sectors.

    Safety and Reliability of Industrial Products, Systems and Structures covers all aspects of safety issues such as Risk Assessment Methodology; Human and Organisational Factors in Risk Assessments; Integration of Risk and Reliability Formulations; Reliability Based Design; Assessment of Existing Structures and Life Extension; Risk Based Inspection and Maintenance Planning, with a special focus on safety-critical systems in all types of industrial plants, equipment, structural systems, buildings and other civil engineering facilities. The book will be of interest to academia and engineers involved in industrial safety, structural reliability, quantified risk assessment and safety management.

    Preface
    Project organizational structure

    Framework documents
    General framework for safety and reliability of industrial products, systems and structures, C. Guedes Soares
    Framework for integrated risk assessment, E. Kragh, M.H. Faber & C. Guedes Soares
    Framework for safety, security and sustainability risk management, A.G. Hessami
    Framework for maintenance planning, C. Guedes Soares, J. Caldeira Duarte, Y. Garbatov, E. Zio & J.D. Sorensen
    Framework for assessment and life extension of existing structures and industrial plants, Ch. Bucher, M. Brehm & H. Bolt

    Risk assessment methodology
    Risk acceptance criteria in Europe, V.M. Trbojevic
    Acceptable safety levels by a socio-economic approach, R. Rackwitz
    Risk assessment of natural hazards with applications to landslides and abnormal waves, P.H.A.J.M. van Gelder, F. Nadim & C. Guedes Soares
    Efficient practice of risk assessment in design process, S. Medonos
    Consequences of explosions in various industries, J. Czujko
    Fire risk assessment in buildings, M. Holicky

    Human and organisational factors in risk assessments
    Techniques for human reliability evaluation, H. Bolt, J. Morris, M. Pedrali, P. Antao & C. Guedes Soares
    Analysing the impact of human factors in transport systems, J. Drobiszewski & Z. Smalko
    On projects’ and organizations’ performance uncertainty, Ove T. Gudmestad & R.R. Stoelsnes

    Reliability based design
    Overview of structural reliability methods, T. Vrouwenvelder & H. Karadeniz
    Methods of structural reliability applied to design and maintenance planning of ship hulls
    and floating platforms, C. Guedes Soares, Y. Garbatov & A.P. Teixeira
    Discrete multicriteria reliability-based optimization of spatial trusses, S. Jendo & E. Silicka
    Continuous and discrete reliability-based optimization of truss structures, R. Stocki, K. Kolanek, S. Jendo & M. Kleiber

    Assessment of existing structures and life extension
    Condition monitoring and remaining life assessment approach at the EDP Group, M.P. Gomes Maia
    Reliability assessment of a primary school, M. Holicky & J. Markova
    Seismic assessment and retrofitting of existing structures in Romania: Background, programs, regulatory basis, D. Lungu & I. Craifaleanu

    Risk based inspection and maintenance planning
    Maintenance optimization for structures by a renewal model, A. Joanni & R. Rackwitz
    Maintenance modelling and optimization applied to safety-related equipment at nuclear power plants, S. Martorell, J.F. Villanueva, S. Carlos & A. Sanchez
    Maintenance modeling and optimization applied to power distribution networks, R. Briš, S. Rusek & R. Goňo
    Applications of probabilistic safety assessment for vulnerability analyses, M. Čepin
    Two computational methods for performing availability analysis of power-systems, M. Bouissou & A.P. Ulmeanu
    Production availability, J-P. Signoret
    Application of reliability centred maintenance in ship operations, J. Wang, A. Pillay & A. Mokashi
    Corrosion of steels in marine environment, monitoring and standards, M. Panayotova, Y. Garbatov & C. Guedes Soares

    Strategy in the various industrial sectors
    Application of safety and reliability approaches in the power sector: Inside-sectoral overview, K. Lauridsen, E. Hollo & I. Kozine
    Risk-based approaches to maritime safety, C. Guedes Soares, A.P. Teixeira & P. Antao
    Optimization of operational safety in tunnels, M. Holicky
    Integrating QRA and SRA methods within a predictive Bayesian approach: An example from offshore projects, W. Rettedal & T. Aven

    Author index

    Biography

    Carlos Guedes Soares