Reliability Data Collection and Use in Risk and Availability Assessment

1: Overviews.- Data Situation and the Quality of Risk Assessment (FRG).- Reliability Engineering in Europe (CEC).- 1984: A Year of Industrial Catastrophies. Would Preliminary Risk Analysis Have Avoided Many of them? (Italy).- Status of the OREDA Project (France).- EuReDatA — Project Groups: An Overview of Objectives and Results (CEC).- A Guide to Reliability Data Collection, Validation and Storage (U.K.).- The Use of Nuclear Power Plant Operating Experience in Probabilistic Safety Assessment.- 2: Reliability Data Banks (Projects and Experience).- Reliability Data Bank in Electronics: ITALTEL Experience over 10 Years of Operation (Italy).- Component Event Data Bank Fast Breeder Reactors (Italy).- The Organization and Collection of System’s Data in Fusion (U.S.A.).- HARIS — an Information System for Reliability and Risk Studies (U.K.).- Classification Scheme for Process Plants (Italy, CEC).- Merging of Heterogeneous Data Sources on Nuclear Power Plant Operating Experience (CEC, Italy).- A Survey on Industrial Accident Data Bases (Netherlands, U.K., Italy, CEC).- Data Bank of Events with the Rijnmond Process Industry (Netherlands).- SONATA: An Accident Data Base for Industrial Activities and Transport. Scope, Organization and Main Results (Italy).- 3: Reliability Data Processing.- Computerized Data Handling and Data Storage on Production Control of Aircraft Components and Test Equipment Reliability (F.R.G.).- Reliability Data Collection on IC and VLSI Devices Tested under Accelerated Life Conditions (Canada).- Field Data as a Correction of Mil-Handbook Estimates (Italy).- Developing Replacement Policies for Failing Components Using Discriminant Analysis (U.K.).- Statistical Inference by the Use of Truncated Exponential Distribution: Estimates with Failure and Survival Times (Argentina).- Analysis of the Component Event Data Bank (CEDB) of the European Reliability Data System (ERDS): General Lines of Investigation and Objectives (CEC).- Data Treatment and Trend Analysis at SKI (Schweden).- Multiple Correspondence Analysis of Abnormal Event Data from Nuclear Power Plants.- 4: Safety and Reliability Assessment (Case Studies).- New Developments in Probabilistic Risk Assessment Methodology for Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facilities (F.R.G.).- Use of PRA Methods in the Safety Analysis of Nuclear Waste Facilities (F.R.G.).- Use of the Steady States Method in the Probabilistic Safety Analysis of an Encapsulation Plant for Spent Fuel Elements (F.R.G.).- Assessment of PSA Methods and Procedures: a Wide Scoping European Research Programme (CEC).- A Feedback of the Probabilistic Safety Study (S.P.S.) into P.U.N. Design (Italy).- The Influence of Reliability and Safety on System Design (U.K.).- The Viggen Aircraft Radar, Reliability Achievement (Sweden).- Relevance of Availability Evaluation Methodologies to Consumer Products Manufacturing Systems (Iraq).- Availability Study of a Polyethylene Plant (Italy).- Availability and Risk Assessment of Power and Chemical Plants Utilizing PEAT (Finland).- Risk Analysis of a Large Tank Farm of Liquefied Petroleum Gases (Italy).- Assessment of Accident Frequencies and Consequences for a New Danish Tunnel (Denmark).- Safety Assessment of Offshore Installations Using a Computer Model (Norway).- Reliability Data Required for a Seismic Risk Assessment (U.S.A.).- Structural and Mechanical Reliability Assessment in Ship Design and Operation (F.R.G.).- Data Acquisition, Probabilistic Design and Safety Margins at the Eastern Scheldt Barrier Project (Netherlands).- 5: Data and Uncertainties.- On the Correlation of Failure Rates (U.S.A).- Intelligent Use of Sparse Data for Risk Assessment of Rare Events, a Case Study (Norway).- The Choice of Appropriate Reliability Data as a Descision Problem (F.R.G.).- Collection and Usage of Reliability Data for Risk Analysis of LNG Storage Tanks (F.R.G.).- Accuracy of Reliability Data for LPG System Components (Netherlands).- 6: Human Reliability.- Using a Simulation Model to Represent the Time Dependence of Human Reliability (F.R.G.).- Human Performance: What Improvement from Human Reliability Assessment (U.K.).- Fundamental Constraints on Some Event Data (U.K.).- 7: Reliability Modelling and Techniques.- Measures of Aging in Model Construction and Identification (U.K.).- Identification of the Important Parameters of Complex Systems by a Bayesian Approach (CEC, Italy).- A Reliability Modelling and Prediction Methodology for Use in Aircraft Design (U.K.).- A Reliability Simulation Language for Reliability Analysis (U.K.).- Study of a PWR Component Cooling Water System by the DISCO Methodology (France).- Program Structure and Software Reliability (F.R.G.).- Probabilistic Safety Assessment (Reference to an Onshore Separating Plant) (Italy).- Techniques for Accident Sequence Quantification in PRA Studies (Italy).- Plant and Control System Reliability and Risk Model (Finland).- Interactive Reliability Assessment Using an Integrated Reliability Data Bank (U.K.).- Coupling Markov and Fault Tree Techniques for Calculating System Reliability (Italy).- Modelling a Drilling Procedure (France).- A Performance Oriented Reliability Model of a Pumping Station in a Fire Protection System (Italy).- Application Areas of the DYLAM Approach to the Safety Analysis of Chemical Processes (CEC, Argentina).- Proportional Hazard Modelling in the Analysis of Transmission Failure Statistics (U.K.).- An Application of Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) Techniques to the Safety Analysis of a PWR Nuclear Power Plant (Italy).- 8: Reliability Feedback in Systems Design and Operation.- Studies of the Economic Impact of Unreliability (Norway).- The Role of Instrumentation in Incidents (Netherlands).- Control Room Ventilation Design Improvement Following Alto Lazio Station Reliability Analysis (Italy).- Reliable Design and Operation of the ECC System for a Heavy Water Moderated Nuclear Research Reactor (Jugoslavia, F.R.G.).- Optimized Preventive Replacement Policy for Large Cascade Systems (F.R.G.).- 9: Intelligent Interfaces for Data Retrieval.- Navigational High-Level Interface for an Expert Data Base (Netherlands).- Artificial Intelligence Techniques for the European Reliability Data System (ERDS) (CEC).- Expert Systems and an Application for Advanced Data Retrieval (Netherlands).