Advanced Seminar on Common Cause Failure Analysis in Probabilistic Safety Assessment: Proceedings of the ISPRA Course held at the Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy, 16-19 November 1987

by Aniello Amendola (Editor)

Overview

Proceedings of the Ispra Course held at the Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy, November 16-19, 1987

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780792302681
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	05/31/1989
Series:	Ispra Courses , #5
Edition description:	1989
Pages:	346
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.24(d)

Table of Contents

Treatment of Common Cause Failures. The Nordic Perspective.- Classification of Multiple Related Failures.- Design Defences against Multiple Related Failures.- Design-Related Defensive Measures against Dependent Failures — ABB ATOM’s Approach.- Design Defences against Common Cause/Multiple Related Failure.- Measures Taken at Design Level to Counter Common Cause Failures. A Few Comments Concerning the Approach of EDF.- Analysis Procedures for Identification of MRF’s.- Dependent Failure Modelling by Fault Tree Technique.- Treatment of Multiple Related Failures by MARKOV Method.- Parametric Models for Common Cause Failures Analysis.- Estimation of Parameters of Common Cause Failure Models.- Pitfalls in Common Cause Failure Data Evaluation.- Experience and Results of the CCF-RBE.- Analysis of CCF-DATA-Identification. The Experience from the Nordic Benchmark.- Some Comments on CCF-Quantification. The Experience from the Nordic Benchmark.- Analysis of Common Cause Failures Based on Operating Experience: Possible Approaches and Results.- Multiple Related Failures from the Nordic Operating Experience.- The Use of Abnormal Event Data from Nuclear Power Reactors for Dependent Failure Analysis.- MRF’s from the Analysis of Component Data.