Reliability, Risk, and Safety, Three Volume Set Theory and Applications

VOLUME 1 I - Thematic areas: Accident and incident investigation: Incident cause levels: An integrated approach to the incident investigation; Learning from accidents (incidents) - Theoretical perspectives on investigation reports as educational tools; Suggested proactive indicators to be used in oil and gas industry based on a survey of accidents in the industry; The innovative tools for prevention of accidents in a post-socialist country; Bayesian methods: A numerical procedure for handling mixed Bayesian networks; Contributions to Bayesian Network model design for operational risk in the financial industry; Data-informed calibration of experts in Bayesian framework; Empirical Bayes testing with random censoring; Uncertainty in reliability estimation: When do you know everything you know? Decision support systems and software tools for safety and reliabilityA decision support system to evaluate gas pipeline risk in multiple dimensions; A knowledge-based approach for functional safety management; Aggregation of randomized model ensemble outcomes for reconstructing nuclear signals from faulty sensors; An assessment of gaps and technical risks in sophisticated technology implementation efforts in complex operations: A case from an integrated production monitoring environment; Analysis and optimization of repairable networks with merging flows; Automating the synthesis of AltaRica Data-Flow models from SysML; Database and simulator supported accident management strategies for the postulated core damage scenarios; Demand optimization model in aeronautical infrastructure to maintain the safety integrity level; Simulation model for availability assessment of airspace control systems; Supportive software for the multi-criteria decision making; TRACE: A generic tool for dependable requirements engineering; Dynamic reliability; Human factors; Occupational safety; VOLUME 2: Reliability and safety data collection and analysis: Accelerated test used as a tool for manufacturing correctness check; An extended Bayesian updating approach to support product selection based on performance testing - A drilling jar case; Analysing multiple damage causes of complex products using DCD algorithm and WCF approach; Analysis of accelerated life testing under competing failure modes with initial failures; Contributions to the modelling of previsional reliability of hydroelectric plants; Crash pulse analysis using wavelets; Data farming quality, improving the WSN safety; Data mining for identification and prediction of safety and reliability characteristics of complex industrial systems and processes; 2 test of goodness of fit for normal and lognormal distribution with applications; Homogeneity and scale testing for small samples with censored and missing data; Identification of significant effects of altering the testing process with regard to reliability growth management; Importance of regarding the field failure behaviour of automotive components; Satellite and satellite subsystems reliability: Statistical data analysis and modelling; Used cars data processing and TUEV reliability statistics modification; Risk and evidence-based policy making; Risk control in complex environments; Safety management systems; Software reliability; VOLUME 3 I System reliability analysis; II Industrial and service sectors Aeronautics and aerospace; Manufacturing; Marine industry; Natural hazards; Offshore oil and gas; Surface transportation (road and train); Waterborne transportation

Biography

Radim Bris, Carlos Guedes Soares, Sebastián Martorell