Title :
Treatment of catastrophic events in availability assessment
Author :
Aven, Terje ; Grundt, Hans Jørgen
Author_Institution :
Statoil, Stavanger, Norway
fDate :
10/1/1989 12:00:00 AM
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;
Journal_Title :
Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
