Functional failure analysis of a thermal–hydraulic passive system by means of Line Sampling

E. Zio and N. Pedroni

Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2009, vol. 94, issue 11, 1764-1781

Abstract: Assessing the failure probability of a thermal–hydraulic (T–H) passive system amounts to evaluating the uncertainties in its performance. Two different sources of uncertainties are usually considered: randomness due to inherent variability in the system behavior (aleatory uncertainty) and imprecision due to lack of knowledge and information on the system (epistemic uncertainty).

Keywords: Functional failure probability; Natural circulation; Gas-cooled fast reactor; Line Sampling; Important direction; Variance reduction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2009.05.010

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