• DocumentCode
    940051
  • Title

    Treatment of catastrophic events in availability assessment

  • Author

    Aven, Terje ; Grundt, Hans Jørgen

  • Author_Institution
    Statoil, Stavanger, Norway
  • Volume
    38
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    1989
  • fDate
    10/1/1989 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    506
  • Lastpage
    507
  • Abstract
    The authors discuss how catastrophic events, viz. rare failure events that violently affect the system, should be treated when assessing availability. In a general statistical framework, the problem treated is related to that of using the mean of a random variable to predict the actual value of the random variable. The discussion is based on experience gained from several availability studies of oil and gas production and transportation systems
  • Keywords
    failure analysis; reliability theory; availability assessment; catastrophic events; gas production; oil production; rare failure events; reliability; transportation systems; Availability; Earthquakes; Explosions; Fires; Humans; Marine vehicles; Petroleum; Production systems; Random variables; System performance;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9529
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/24.46473
  • Filename
    46473