Engineering Asset Management and Infrastructure Sustainability : Proceedings of the 5th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM 2010)

Engineering Asset Management 2010 represents state-of-the art trends and developments in the emerging field of engineering asset management as presented at the Fifth World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM). The proceedings of the WCEAM 2010 is an excellent reference for practitioners, researchers and students in the multidisciplinary field of asset management, covering topics such as: Asset condition monitoring and intelligent maintenance Asset data warehousing, data mining and fusion Asset performance and level-of-service models Design and life-cycle integrity of physical assets Education and training in asset management Engineering standards in asset management Fault diagnosis and prognostics Financial analysis methods for physical assets Human dimensions in integrated asset management Information quality management Information systems and knowledge management Intelligent sensors and devices Maintenance strategies in asset management Optimisation decisions in asset management Risk management in asset management Strategic asset management Sustainability in asset management Front Matter....Pages i-xix Plant Asset Management Today and Tomorrow....Pages 1-17 A Prognostics and Health Management for Information and Electronics-Rich Systems....Pages 19-30 Acoustic Emission Technology for Assessing Gas Void Fraction Levels in Two-Phase Flow....Pages 31-38 The Role of Very Detailed Soil Environment (VDSE) Maps in Assessing the Performance of Buried Water Pipes....Pages 39-53 Managing Public Assets Towards Service Delivery Compliance....Pages 55-60 Risk Modeling and Analysis for Sustainable Asset Management....Pages 61-75 An Approach to Estimate the Probability in Meeting Army Maintenance Personnel Requirements....Pages 77-86 Wear Mechanisms in Pneumatic Conveying of Sand and Analysis of Predictive Model for Pipeline Thickness Loss....Pages 87-99 Novel Application of Laser Scanning Confocal Microscope in Analysis of Single Particle Impact on Ductile Surfaces....Pages 101-111 The Study of Gearbox Condition Maintenance Policy Based on Proportional Hazards Model....Pages 113-119 Statistical Activity Cost Regression Analysis of a Scheduling Problem....Pages 121-131 Fault Diagnosis of Gearbox Based on Interpolated DFT with the Maximum Sidelobe Decay Windows....Pages 133-141 Diagnostics of Internal Combustion Engine Mechanical Faults Masked by Adaptive Control Systems....Pages 143-154 Indentation Size Effect and Strain Rate Sensitivity of Nanocrystalline MG–AL Alloys....Pages 155-163 Council Building Management Practices, Case Studies and Road Ahead....Pages 165-179 Managing Offshore Wind Energy Assets: On the Systematic Development of an Integrated Architecture....Pages 181-193 Identifying Differences in Wet and Dry Road Crashes Using Data Mining....Pages 195-210 Maintenance Management of Concrete Infrastructure Considering Extent of Corrosion-Induced Damage....Pages 211-226 Field-Force Enablement in Australian Asset Management Organisations—A Complete Study....Pages 227-242 Reliability Prediction Using the Non-Parametric Explicit Hazard Model: A Case Study....Pages 243-250 An Architectural Concept for the CIEAM Enterprise Bus....Pages 251-261 The Characteristic of the Acoustic Emission Signal in Rotating Shaft with Crack....Pages 263-273 Managing Complex Engineering Projects with Design Structure Matrix Methods....Pages 275-282 An Object Oriented Road Asset Information Model....Pages 283-297 Information and Operational Technologies Governance Framework for Engineering Asset Management....Pages 299-313 Enterprise Architectures for Information and Operational Technologies for Asset Management....Pages 315-328 Contracting and Asset Management: Establishing an Asset Specificity Framework for Determining the Optimal Management of Tourism Infrastructure....Pages 329-336 Inspection Intervals, Risk and Bushfires....Pages 337-345 Safety Critical Elements in Asset Management....Pages 347-357 Ferromagnetism in Compression Stressed Transitional Bulk Nanostructured FE 50 AL 50 Alloy....Pages 359-374 Life Cycle Costing in High Complex Industries—Developing and Applying a Life Cycle Costing Approach in the Railway Industry....Pages 375-389 Molecular Mechanics Investigations on Interfacial Properties in Nano-Materials due to Van der Waals and Electrostatic Coulombic Interactions....Pages 391-415 Development of Diagnostic and Prognostic Algorithms from Vacuum Circuit Breaker Restrike Review and its Validation Proposal....Pages 417-440 Asset Management Key Areas for Financial Success....Pages 441-458 A Study on the Use of Acoustic Emission Technique as a Structural Health Monitoring Tool....Pages 459-469 Integrated Approach for HP-LNG Pump Diagnostics and Prognostics Based on Health State Probability Estimation....Pages 471-487 Acoustic Emission for Diesel Engine Monitoring: A Review and Preliminary Analysis....Pages 489-499 Characteristic Analysis of AE Signal Caused by Crack Growth....Pages 501-507 ASSET: Appropriate Spares Supply and Efficient Transportation Management....Pages 509-518 How to Develop a Practical Asset Management Tool?....Pages 519-529 Developing Knowledge–Intensive Product–Service Systems–Interview Results from Finnish Manufacturing Companies....Pages 531-542 Towards an Asset Management Framework of Asset Characteristics, Asset Environment, Lifecycle Phases, and Management....Pages 543-556 The Fault Diagnosis and Monitoring of Rotating Machines by Thermography....Pages 557-565 The Electromechanical Impedance Method and its Application for Paint Coating Damage Detection....Pages 567-580 Hydrothermal Synthesis of Single Crystallin Strontium Titanate Nanocubes....Pages 581-586 Diesel Engine Problems, Acoustic Emission Signals and Simulated Misfire Faults....Pages 587-598 Road Networks Management Under Uncertainty: A Stochastic Based Model....Pages 599-611 The Exemplification of Governance Principles within State Asset Management Laws and Policies: The Case of Indonesia....Pages 613-631 Bringing the MIMOSA OSA-EAI into an Object-Oriented World....Pages 633-646 Ontology-Based Implementation of an Advanced Method for Time Treatment in Asset Lifecycle Management....Pages 647-662 Availability of a General Repairable k-out-of-n:G System Considering Shut-Off Rules....Pages 663-673 The Evaluation Method of Human–Machine–Environment Systems Operation Quality....Pages 675-691 Use Rule Based to Predict Dirty Values....Pages 693-703 Stochastic and Jerky Nature of Plasticity in Small Material Volumes....Pages 705-711 Temperature Dependent Electrical Resistivity in Epoxy—Multiwall Carbon Nanotube Nanocomposites....Pages 713-723 An Integrated Software for Machine Diagnostics and Prognostics Using Wireless Sensors....Pages 725-738 Structurally Integrated Thick Film Acoustic Emission Sensors....Pages 739-747 Estimation of Rail Failure Parameters for Developing Rail Maintenance Models....Pages 749-758 Human Dimensions in Integrated Asset Management....Pages 759-777 Simulation of AE Wave Propagation in Thin Plate for Source Identification....Pages 779-788 Strategic Maintenance Improvement: Driving forces and Obstacles....Pages 789-800 Towards Policy-Driven Performance Reporting: The Case of Waterway Infrastructure....Pages 801-811 A Technical Architecture Development of Social Infrastructure Asset Managmement Information Systems in Korea....Pages 813-827 Enhanced Kernel Method for Modelling Failure Probability Density Functions....Pages 829-845 Risk Analysis of Diagnostic Facilities–Man–Machine–Environment System....Pages 847-852 SIMPLE—Sustainable Infrastructure Management Program Learning Environment....Pages 853-863 Research into Infrastructure Systems Vulnerability, Risk Exposure, and Sustainable Adaptive Capacity to Hazardous Conditions....Pages 865-883 Renewal Decision Support for Linear Assets....Pages 885-899 To Keep Transport Device Availability Base on RCM Approach....Pages 901-912 To Ensure Transport System Availability Based on Maintenance Decision Solutions....Pages 913-918 Asset Management: Middle East Style....Pages 919-929 Through-Life Management of Engineering Assets....Pages 931-944 Strategic Infrastructure Asset Management: The Way Forward....Pages 945-958 Machine Performance Degradation Assessment and Remaining Useful Life Prediction Using Proportional Hazard Model and SVM....Pages 959-970 Factors Influencing Local Government Capital Works Procurement: Developing a Research Agenda....Pages 971-980 Managing Metadata Towards Enhanced Data Quality in Asset Management....Pages 981-994 Technology Development for Application in Indian Railways....Pages 995-1010 Thin Film Solar Cells Based on Cu 2 ZnSnS 4 Absorber....Pages 1011-1018 Atomic Force Microscopy Investigation on Young’s Modulus of Cartilage for Osteoarthritis Study....Pages 1019-1025 Preliminary Study on Bridge Health Prediction Using Dynamic Objective Oriented Bayesian Network (DOOBN)....Pages 1027-1042 Asset Risk Management: Issues in the Design and Use of the Risk Matrix....Pages 1043-1059 Benchmarking Information Quality Performance in Asset Intensive Organisations in the UK....Pages 1061-1075 Use of Analytic Hierarchy Process for Assessment of Transport System Operation Safety....Pages 1077-1087 Integrated Management Asset Approach to Human–Device Set....Pages 1089-1094 Separation of Acoustic Emission Signals From Small Size Multi-Cylinder Diesel Engine....Pages 1095-1109 Analysis of Conical-Cylinder Shells Fundamental Characteristics for Structural Health Diagnostics....Pages 1111-1124 Time–Frequency Energy Spectrum Analysis Technique in Main Joints Fault Diagnosis of Quayside Container Crane Track Based on Hilbert–Huang Transform....Pages 1125-1135 Handling Incomplete Data in Survival Analysis with Multiple Covariates....Pages 1137-1146 Development of Oxide Dispersion Strengthened Steels for High Temperature Nuclear Structural Applications....Pages 1147-1160