A Method of Quasi Monte Carlo for Computation of Ship Availability

Author

Hongshan Lu ; Chongjian Wu ; Jian Xu

Author_Institution

China Ship Dev. & Design Center, Wuhan, China

fYear

2013

fDate

21-23 July 2013

Firstpage

8

Lastpage

10

Abstract

Availability of Ships can wholly delegate the specialty of reliability, maintainability and supportability. The parameters of RMS of ships usually submit to logarithmic normal distribution elaborated in the paper. A Quasi Monte Carlo method and it´s program of computation are proposed introducing the Halton sequence instead of the pseudorandom numbers of traditional Monte Carlo method to compute the availability of ships suitably. Practical results show that this method could perform the ship availability computation rapidly and effectively.

Keywords

Monte Carlo methods; fault diagnosis; maintenance engineering; normal distribution; sequences; ships; Halton sequence; logarithmic normal distribution; quasiMonte Carlo method; reliability-maintainability-and-supportability; ship RMS parameters; ship availability computation; Availability; Computational modeling; Gaussian distribution; Maintenance engineering; Marine vehicles; Monte Carlo methods; Quasi Monte Carlo; availability; maintainability; reliability; ship;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mechanical and Automation Engineering (MAEE), 2013 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Jiujang

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MAEE.2013.11

Filename

6602124