Published 2013
| Version v1
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A general stochastic approach to unavailability analysis of standby safety systems
Creators
- 1. Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft (Netherlands)
- 2. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1 (Canada)
Description
The paper presents a general analytical framework to analyze unavailability caused by latent failures in standby safety systems used in nuclear plants. The proposed approach is general in a sense that it encompasses a variety of inspection and maintenance policies and relaxes restrictive assumptions regarding the distributions of time to failure (or aging) and duration of repair. A key result of the paper is a general integral equation for point unavailability, which can be tailored to any specific maintenance policy. (authors)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- American Nuclear Society - ANS
- Imprint Place
- La Grange Park (United States)
- ISBN
- 978-0-89448-700-2
- Imprint Title
- Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering - M and C 2013
- Imprint Pagination
- 3016 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 280-291
Conference
- Title
- 2013 International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering
- Acronym
- M and C 2013
- Dates
- 5-9 May 2013
- Place
- Sun Valley, ID (United States)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- France
- INIS RN
- 45033669
- Subject category
- S97: MATHEMATICAL METHODS AND COMPUTING; S22: GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- AGING; FAILURES; INSPECTION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MAINTENANCE; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; RANDOMNESS; REPAIR; SAFETY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES
- Descriptors DEC
- EQUATIONS; NUCLEAR FACILITIES; POWER PLANTS; THERMAL POWER PLANTS
Optional Information
- Notes
- 8 refs.