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

Reliability data collection and its use in risk and availability assessment is a subject of increasing importance. The founders of EuReDatA, and in particular, Arne Ullman, the originator 'and first Chairman of the Association, recognised the need for a body capable of acting as a catalyst and providing a unified approach to this subject. It is therefore a prevailing objective of the European Reliability Databank Association to initiate and support contact between experts, companies and institutions active in reliability engineering and research. Although the first and principle interest of EuReDatA is reliability data and data banks, the Association is aware that these are tools that are used with others to establish and maintain reliability and safety. It is with this objective that EuReDatA regularly holds conferences and seminars covering a range of reliability topics. C.A. Campbell H.J. Wingender EuReDatA Chairman Organiser, Editor Contents CHAPTER 1: OVERVIEWS Data Situation and the Quality of Risk Assessment (FRG) A. Birkhofer, K. Koberlein (GRS) ..••••....•.•...••.....•.•.. 3 Reliability Engineering in Europe (CEC) G. Volta (JRC-Ispra) •...••••... •...........•••.•....•.••..••. 16 1984: A Year of Industrial Catastrophies. 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