[HTML][HTML] Safety barriers: Research advances and new thoughts on theory, engineering and management

Y Liu - Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, 2020 - Elsevier
Safety barriers include physical and non-physical means in different industries for
preventing the occurrences of hazardous events and mitigating the consequences in case …

An integrated fuzzy fault tree model with Bayesian Network-Based maintenance optimization of complex equipment in automotive manufacturing

H Soltanali, M Khojastehpour, JT Farinha, JEDAE Pais - Energies, 2021 - mdpi.com
Process integrity, insufficient data, and system complexity in the automotive manufacturing
sector are the major uncertainty factors used to predict failure probability (FP), and which are …

Impact of common cause failure on reliability performance of redundant safety related systems subject to process demand

S Alizadeh, S Sriramula - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Common Cause Failures (CCFs) can compromise reliability performance of safety
related systems and hence configurations with identical redundant units receive special …

[HTML][HTML] Inspection and maintenance optimization for heterogeneity units in redundant structure with Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm III

A Zhang, S Hao, M Xie, Y Liu, H Yu - ISA transactions, 2023 - Elsevier
Redundant structure has been widely deployed to improve system reliability, as when one
unit fails, the system can continue to function by using another one. Most existing studies …

A bounded-error approach to actuator fault diagnosis and remaining useful life prognosis of Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy systems

B Mrugalska - ISA transactions, 2018 - Elsevier
The paper presents an actuator fault diagnosis and prognosis scheme for Takagi-Sugeno
fuzzy system. It overcomes the drawbacks of the approaches presented in the relevant …

Decision making with STPA through Markov decision process, a theoretic framework for safe human-robot collaboration

A Zacharaki, I Kostavelis, I Dokas - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
During the last decades, collaborative robots capable of operating out of their cages are
widely used in industry to assist humans in mundane and harsh manufacturing tasks …

Preventive protection of ship's electric power system from reverse power

A Saushev, N Shirokov, S Kuznetsov - Energy Management of Municipal …, 2019 - Springer
The present paper considers the task of developing an algorithm of preventive protection of
a ship's electric power system (SEPS) from reverse power through implementing a method …

Generalized markovian consideration of common cause failures in the performance assessment of safety instrumented systems

M Chebila - Process Safety and Environmental Protection, 2020 - Elsevier
Aiming to provide a generalized method for assessing the performance of safety
instrumented systems with a flexible and accurate consideration of the common cause …

Reliability model and sensitivity analysis for electrical/electronic/programmable electronic safety-related systems

ES Torres, S Sriramula, D Celeita… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nowadays, different industries such as nuclear, automotive, process, chemical, and oil and
gas industry must meet specific requirements in order to keep and reduce safety risks to as …

Integrated unavailability analysis including test degradation and efficiency, components ageing and common cause failures

JJR Oliva, MP Ojeda, JS Llanes, AT Valle - Annals of Nuclear Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
The article proposes an integrated model for the unavailability of standby components and
systems, considering the impacts of ageing, test degradation and test efficiency on …