Workshop on Engineering Reliability and Life Cycle Management

Objective
The objective of this tutorial (workshop) is to discuss the basic principles of engineering risk and reliability analysis of engineering systems, and the basic principles and requirements of equipment failure database development and applications.

Outline
This tutorial will provide a broad overview of the subject of engineering risk, reliability and decision analysis. Emphasis is on the probabilistic modeling of engineering problems and evaluation of systems performance under conditions of uncertainty. A significant portion of the tutorial will be devoted to a presentation of piping reliability analysis, including models of piping reliability, input parameters, and statistical analysis of operating experience data. The necessary mathematical concepts will be reviewed in the context of engineering problems. Practical insights will be presented from the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency "OPDE" and "SCAP-SCC" database projects. Applications of risk-informed life cycle management such as risk-informed in-service inspection (RI-ISI) and internal flooding probabilistic risk assessment will be presented.

Proposed date: Sunday, May 11th 2008, from 08:30 am - 04:00 pm
Venue: Walt Disney World, Orlando, Florida, USA
Workshop Instructors: Bengt Lydell, Mahesh Pandey, Fred Hoppe, Jovica Riznic
ASME Proposed Fee: $50 (early registration)/ $75 (late registration)

Profile of Bengt Lydell: Mechanical engineer with over 32 years of experience in applied risk & reliability analysis. He is responsible for database management in the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency "OPDE" and "SCAP-SCC" projects. He has extensive experience with risk-informed applications of pipe failure data and currently supports the PBMR Helium Pressure Boundary structural integrity assessment. During 2003-2005, he was a member of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Expert Panel on Loss-of-Coolant-Accident Frequency.

Profile of Mahesh Pandey: Dr. Mahesh Pandey is a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and holding an Industrial Research Chair in Risk and Life Cycle Management of engineering systems. Dr. Pandey is leading a large research program funded by the Nuclear Industry, Federal and Provincial Governments in Canada. Dr. Pandey has over 15 years of experience in basic and applied research in the areas of engineering mechanics, stochastic modeling and structural reliability theory. The focus of his research is to develop risk models for nuclear plant SSCs and utilize them to optimize inspection, maintenance and asset management programs during the life cycle of a plant.

Profile of Fred Hoppe: Dr. Fred Hoppe is a Professor in the departments of Mathematics and Statistics and in Engineering Physics at McMaster University and an elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. His interests lie in probabilistic modeling and applications of statistical methods to the nuclear industry. During the past ten years Dr. Hoppe has consulted on various problems, including channel/bundle power error, reactor power error, NOP trip setpoint analysis, feeder thinning, and radioactive contamination sampling. He has also carried out review work for the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission.

Profile of Jovica Riznic: Dr Jovica Riznic is a technical specialist with the Operational Engineering assessment Division of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission. Dr. Riznic has over twenty years of experience in nuclear reactor safety, thermal hydraulics, steam generator tube integrity assessments, inspection tools and their capabilities, direct assessment techniques and methodologies, and field data collection. He has managed a large number of experimental, numerical, and analytical projects, and served as the ICONE Track 2 leader for last ten years.

For further information about the Workshop please contact:

Jovica R. Riznic, PhD, P.Eng.
Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
Operational Engineering Assessment Division
280 Slater, P.O.B. 1046, Station B
Ottawa, Ontario K1P 5S9
CANADA
Tel: (613) 943-0132
Fax: (613) 943-1292
E-mail: jovica.riznic@cnsc-ccsn.gc.ca