Abstract System safety, reliability and risk analysis are important tasks that are performed
throughout the system life-cycle to ensure the dependability of safety-critical systems …

The migration towards digital control systems creates new security threats that can endanger
the safety of industrial infrastructures. Addressing the convergence of safety and security …

With the increasing complexity and size of modern advanced engineering systems, the
traditional reliability theory cannot characterize and quantify the complex characteristics of …

Redundant design has been widely used in aerospace systems, nuclear systems, etc. which
calls for particular attention to common cause failure problems in such systems with various …

Safety analysis in gas process facilities is necessary to prevent unwanted events that may
cause catastrophic accidents. Accident scenario analysis with probability updating is the key …

Dependence assessment among human errors in human reliability analysis (HRA) is an
important issue. Many of the dependence assessment methods in HRA rely heavily on the …

Rotor blades are the major components of an aircraft turbine. Their reliability seriously
affects the overall aircraft turbine security. Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) …

With the rapid development of reliability analysis theory, the safety assessment for
engineering systems with hybrid epistemic uncertainties has received increasing attentions …

Dependence assessment among human errors plays an important role in human reliability
analysis. The technique for human error rate is one of the most commonly used method for …

This paper presents a first attempt to use Dempster-Shafer (DS) evidence theory for the fault
diagnosis of wind turbine (WT) on SCADA alarm data. As two important elements in DS …