Reliability Engineering and System Safety

2005 - 2025

Current editor(s): Carlos Guedes Soares

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Volume 130, issue C, 2014

Bayesian Belief Networks for predicting drinking water distribution system pipe breaks pp. 1-11

Royce A. Francis, Seth D. Guikema and Lucas Henneman

A combined sensitivity analysis and kriging surrogate modeling for early validation of health indicators pp. 12-26

Benjamin Lamoureux, Nazih Mechbal and Massé, Jean-Rémi

Reliability growth by failure mode removal pp. 27-32

Donald P. Gaver and Patricia A. Jacobs

Cost modelling in maintenance strategy optimisation for infrastructure assets with limited data pp. 33-41

Wenjuan Zhang and Wenbin Wang

Modeling automotive safety mechanisms: A Markovian approach pp. 42-49

Abraham Cherfi, Michel Leeman, Florent Meurville and Antoine Rauzy

Hazard rate function in dynamic environment pp. 50-60

Lu XiaoFei and Liu Min

A conservative bound for the probability of failure of a 1-out-of-2 protection system with one hardware-only and one software-based protection train pp. 61-68

Peter Bishop, Robin Bloomfield, Bev Littlewood, Peter Popov, Andrey Povyakalo and Lorenzo Strigini

A redundant n-system under shocks and repairs following Markovian arrival processes pp. 69-75

Delia Montoro-Cazorla and Pérez-Ocón, Rafael

A stochastic model for railway track asset management pp. 76-84

John Andrews, Darren Prescott and Florian De Rozières,

Optimal connecting elements allocation in linear consecutively-connected systems with phased mission and common cause failures pp. 85-94

Gregory Levitin, Liudong Xing and Shengji Yu

Assessment of lightning impact frequency for process equipment pp. 95-105

Amos Necci, Giacomo Antonioni, Valerio Cozzani, Elisabeth Krausmann, Alberto Borghetti and Carlo Alberto Nucci

A pragmatic mapping of factors behind deviating acts in aircraft maintenance pp. 106-114

Vassilis Tsagkas, Dimitris Nathanael and Nicolas Marmaras

Asymptotic optimality of RESTART estimators in highly dependable systems pp. 115-124

Villén-Altamirano, J.

Application of subset simulation in reliability estimation of underground pipelines pp. 125-131

Kong Fah Tee, Lutfor Rahman Khan and Hongshuang Li

Reliability optimization of series–parallel systems with mixed redundancy strategy in subsystems pp. 132-139

Mostafa Abouei Ardakan and Ali Zeinal Hamadani

Non-parametric kernel estimation for the ANOVA decomposition and sensitivity analysis pp. 140-148

Xiaopeng Luo, Zhenzhou Lu and Xin Xu

Markovian agents models for wireless sensor networks deployed in environmental protection pp. 149-158

Davide Cerotti, Marco Gribaudo and Andrea Bobbio

A critical evaluation of deterministic methods in size optimisation of reliable and cost effective standalone hybrid renewable energy systems pp. 159-174

Alireza Maheri

Inverse Gaussian process models for degradation analysis: A Bayesian perspective pp. 175-189

Weiwen Peng, Yan-Feng Li, Yuan-Jian Yang, Hong-Zhong Huang and Ming J. Zuo

Evaluation of risk impact of changes to Completion Times addressing model and parameter uncertainties pp. 190-201

S. Martorell, Martón, I., M. Villamizar, Sánchez, A.I. and S. Carlos

Planning structural inspection and maintenance policies via dynamic programming and Markov processes. Part I: Theory pp. 202-213

K.G. Papakonstantinou and M. Shinozuka

Planning structural inspection and maintenance policies via dynamic programming and Markov processes. Part II: POMDP implementation pp. 214-224

K.G. Papakonstantinou and M. Shinozuka

Volume 129, issue C, 2014

Early detection of gradual concept drifts by text categorization and Support Vector Machine techniques: The TRIO algorithm pp. 1-9

M. Marseguerra

Functional failure modes cause-consequence logic suited for mobile robots used at scientific facilities pp. 10-18

Douzi Imran Khan, Seppo Virtanen, Pierre Bonnal and A.k Verma

Application of risk informed safety margin characterization to extended power uprate analysis pp. 19-28

Donald A. Dube, Richard R. Sherry, Jeffery R. Gabor and Stephen M. Hess

Reliability evaluation of non-reparable three-state systems using Markov model and its comparison with the UGF and the recursive methods pp. 29-35

Pedram Pourkarim Guilani, Mani Sharifi, S.T.A. Niaki and Arash Zaretalab

A new class of distribution functions for lifetime data pp. 36-45

Filippo Domma and Francesca Condino

A Bayesian statistical method for quantifying model form uncertainty and two model combination methods pp. 46-56

Inseok Park and Ramana V. Grandhi

A practical reliability allocation method considering modified criticality factors pp. 57-65

Om Prakash Yadav and Xing Zhuang

Investigating the TACOM measure as a general tool for quantifying the complexity of procedure guided tasks pp. 66-75

Jinkyun Park

Risk-based determination of design pressure of LNG fuel storage tanks based on dynamic process simulation combined with Monte Carlo method pp. 76-82

Yeelyong Noh, Kwangpil Chang, Yutaek Seo and Daejun Chang

Volume 128, issue C, 2014

A new kind of regional importance measure of the input variable and its state dependent parameter solution pp. 1-16

Luyi Li, Zhenzhou Lu and JiXiang Hu

On some steady-state characteristics of systems with gradual repair pp. 17-23

Maxim Finkelstein and Zani Ludick

Bayesian dynamic linear model for growth of corrosion defects on energy pipelines pp. 24-31

Shenwei Zhang and Wenxing Zhou

A Bayesian method for using simulator data to enhance human error probabilities assigned by existing HRA methods pp. 32-40

Katrina M. Groth, Curtis L. Smith and Laura P. Swiler

Inclusion of task dependence in human reliability analysis pp. 41-55

Xiaoyan Su, Sankaran Mahadevan, Peida Xu and Yong Deng

Maintaining a system subject to uncertain technological evolution pp. 56-65

T.P.K. Nguyen, Bruno Castanier and Thomas G. Yeung

Bounds on survival probability given mean probability of failure per demand; and the paradoxical advantages of uncertainty pp. 66-83

Lorenzo Strigini and David Wright

Volume 127, issue C, 2014

New validation metrics for models with multiple correlated responses pp. 1-11

Wei Li, Wei Chen, Zhen Jiang, Zhenzhou Lu and Yu Liu

Demand rate and risk reduction for safety instrumented systems pp. 12-20

Per Hokstad

Establishment of a maintenance plan based on quantitative analysis in the context of RCM in a JIT production scenario pp. 21-29

Alebrant Mendes, Angélica and Duarte Ribeiro, José Luis

Accident scenarios triggered by lightning strike on atmospheric storage tanks pp. 30-46

Amos Necci, Francesca Argenti, Gabriele Landucci and Valerio Cozzani

Availability modeling and optimization of dynamic multi-state series–parallel systems with random reconfiguration pp. 47-57

Y.F. Li and R. Peng

Optimal component loading in 1-out-of-N cold standby systems pp. 58-64

Gregory Levitin, Liudong Xing and Yuanshun Dai

A practical approach for solving multi-objective reliability redundancy allocation problems using extended bare-bones particle swarm optimization pp. 65-76

Enze Zhang, Yifei Wu and Qingwei Chen

On a systematic perspective on risk for formal safety assessment (FSA) pp. 77-85

Jakub Montewka, Floris Goerlandt and Pentti Kujala

An analysis of flight Quick Access Recorder (QAR) data and its applications in preventing landing incidents pp. 86-96

Lei Wang, Changxu Wu and Ruishan Sun

Volume 126, issue C, 2014

Warranty forecasting from incomplete two-dimensional warranty data pp. 1-13

Sanjib Kumar Gupta, Soumen De and Aditya Chatterjee

Uncertainty quantification of an Aviation Environmental Toolsuite pp. 14-24

Douglas Allaire, George Noel, Karen Willcox and Rebecca Cointin

Global Sensitivity Analysis for multivariate output using Polynomial Chaos Expansion pp. 25-36

Oscar Garcia-Cabrejo and Albert Valocchi

Testing effort dependent software reliability model for imperfect debugging process considering both detection and correction pp. 37-43

R. Peng, Y.F. Li, W.J. Zhang and Q.P. Hu

A response surface method for stochastic dynamic analysis pp. 44-53

Umberto Alibrandi

Gamma lifetimes and one-shot device testing analysis pp. 54-64

N. Balakrishnan and M.H. Ling

Optimal staggered testing strategies for heterogeneously redundant safety systems pp. 65-71

Yiliu Liu

Importance analysis for reconfigurable systems pp. 72-80

Shubin Si, Gregory Levitin, Hongyan Dui and Shudong Sun

On the meaning of the special-cause variation concept used in the quality discourse – And its link to unforeseen and surprising events in risk management pp. 81-86

Terje Aven

Nonparametric predictive inference for combined competing risks data pp. 87-97

Tahani Coolen-Maturi and Frank P.A. Coolen

A reliability-based approach to optimize preventive maintenance scheduling for coherent systems pp. 98-106

Mohammad Doostparast, Farhad Kolahan and Mahdi Doostparast

A novel decision diagrams extension method pp. 107-115

Shumin Li, Shubin Si, Hongyan Dui, Zhiqiang Cai and Shudong Sun

On the application of near accident data to risk analysis of major accidents pp. 116-125

Nima Khakzad, Faisal Khan and Nicola Paltrinieri

Piecewise Deterministic Markov Processes based approach applied to an offshore oil production system pp. 126-134

Huilong Zhang, Fares Innal, Dufour, François and Yves Dutuit

A drawback and an improvement of the classical Weibull probability plot pp. 135-142

R. Jiang

Precision of power-law NHPP estimates for multiple systems with known failure rate scaling pp. 143-152

Jozef Van Dyck and Tim Verdonck

Evaluation of risk impact of changes to surveillance requirements addressing model and parameter uncertainties pp. 153-165

S. Martorell, M. Villamizar, Martón, I., J.F. Villanueva, S. Carlos and Sánchez, A.I.