... is a single component solid state device. I am grateful for the advice of Dr. Saurabh Bansal who guided my implementation of the online risk assessment activities used in my course and described in this paper. I also acknowledge the support of the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy...

...; published online April 18, 2018. Assoc. Editor: Faisal Khan. Computational reliability methods Risk Risk assessment Uncertainty Data-driven design requires the use of machine learning algorithms to learn the system characteristics from available data. Among many machine...

...Hidemasa Yamano; Hiroyuki Nishino; Kenichi Kurisaka; Takahiro Yamamoto The objective of this paper is to develop a probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) methodology against volcanic eruption for decay heat removal function of sodium-cooled fast reactors (SFRs). In the volcanic PRA methodology...

... piping locations has the potential to minimize the hydrocarbon release. One of the primary challenges in preparation of inspection program for offshore piping is to identify the fatigue critical piping locations. At present, the three-staged risk assessment process (RAP) given in the Energy Institute (EI...

...Yan Wang; Laura Swiler 07 07 2017 25 07 2017 Reliability based design Resilience Risk assessment Risk management Uncertainty The importance of uncertainty has been recognized in various modeling, simulation, and analysis applications, where inherent assumptions...

... Fault tree Life management reliability Network reliability analysis Probability Risk assessment Risk analysis helps propose effective prevention and mitigative measures of accidents [ 1 ]. The prediction and diagnosis of abnormal events are an important part of risk analysis and management...

.../j.jlp.2005.01.002 [6] Roemer , M. J. , and Kacprzynski , G. J. , 2000 , “ Advanced Diagnostics and Prognostics for Gas Turbine Engine Risk Assessment ,” IEEE Aerospace Conference ( AERO ), Big Sky, MT, Mar. 18–25, pp. 345 – 353 . 10.1109/AERO.2000.877909 [7] DePold , H. R...

... in the ship are 0.6 mm, 5.9 years, and 0.012 mm/year, respectively. Marine Probability Reliability Risk analysis Risk assessment Structures Systems reliability Uncertainty Time-dependent structural degradation (including corrosion, fatigue cracking, and mechanical damage...

... hazards Reliability Resilience Risk Risk analysis Risk assessment Electricity distribution networks of today are an integral part of societies. Moreover, most of the other critical infrastructures (CI) are dependent on a functioning electricity system, and even single failures in it may...

... Evidence theory Failure Fuzzy Reliability Risk Risk assessment Vague The reliability of hydroelectric turbines is a complex function, which depends mainly on: turbine age, cumulative damage, design data, loading cycles, periodic inspections, and material intrinsic properties. Based...

... evaluation and maximum pit depth estimation as the main characteristics in pitting risk assessment. A review of related works and different steps of the proposed methodology are discussed in the subsequent sections. Fig. 1 The methodology for evaluation of pitting CUI modeling Pits randomly...

... analysis Risk assessment Inverted-pendulum human transporters are devices that transport one person in a standing configuration. Figure 1 shows three such transporters: the Segway i167 in Fig. 1( a ) , the Segway i2 in Fig. 1( b ) , and the Ninebot Personal Transporter in Fig. 1( c...

...Tamunoiyala S. Koko; Bilal M. Ayyub; Keith Gallant In the companion paper (Ayyub et al., 2016, “Risk Assessment Methodology for Electric-Current Induced Drowning Accidents,” ASCE-ASME J. Risk Uncertainty Eng. Syst. Part B Mech. Eng., 3(3), pp. XXX-XXX.), the authors developed a methodology...

...; published online October 2, 2015. Assoc. Editor: Alba Sofi. 19 5 2014 17 1 2015 27 04 2015 02 10 2015 Mechanical Risk assessment Structures Currently, there appear to be six different calculi for uncertainty analysis of structures. Central among them is probabilistic...

... Mechanical Project management Risk analysis Risk assessment Risk management The concept of FTA was first introduced by Watson in Bell Telephone Laboratory in 1961 [ 6 , 7 ]. This technique was then extensively used to analyze the confident capability and safety of systems. A fault tree...

... Z c , i vectors obtained at step B1 Infrastructure Risk assessment CIs, e.g., transportation, electric power, water, gas, and communication systems, interact on the basis of complex relationships that cross the single-infrastructure boundary. This exposes CIs to the risk...

..., 2014; final manuscript received February 24, 2015; published online July 1, 2015. Assoc. Editor: Nii Attoh-Okine. 16 9 2014 24 2 2015 08 05 2015 01 07 2015 Mechanical Reliability based design Risk analysis Risk assessment Risk-based optimisation Systems reliability...

... received January 15, 2015; published online April 20, 2015. Assoc. Editor: Athanasios Pantelous. 30 8 2014 15 1 2015 05 02 2015 20 04 2015 Management Risk analysis Risk assessment Risk management This paper develops an interval methodology to explore the dynamics...