3 ECTS credits
90 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 4013096ENR for all students in the 2nd semester
at
a (E) Master - advanced level.
- Semester
- 2nd semester
- Enrollment based on exam contract
- Impossible
- Grading method
- Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
- Can retake in second session
- Yes
- Enrollment Requirements
- Om te kunnen inschrijven voor Opsporen en beheer van risico's moet men ingeschreven of geslaagd zijn voor ten minste 45 SP uit MA IR: CM PR Materialen OF ingeschreven zijn in Master IR: werktuigkunde-elektrotechniek, Master IR: biomedische ingenieurstechieken of het Postgraduaat Veiligheidstechniek.
- Taught in
- Dutch
- Faculty
- Faculty of Engineering
- Department
- Applied Mechanics
- Educational team
- Marc Van Overmeire
(course titular)
- Activities and contact hours
-
18 contact hours Lecture
24 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
- Course Content
- First of all, basic concepts such as reliability, failure rate, availability and maintainability are introduced. Life models such as exponential and Weibull life distribution are discussed. Reliability techniques are then treated in full detail and applied in simple as well as complex applications.
Discussed qualitative techniques are Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) and Hazard and operability analysis (HAZOP).
As quantitative reliability techniques, Fault Tree Analysis. Event Tree Analysis and Reliability Block Diagrams are studied.
Also more specific risk analysis techniques are not forgotten. Some simple techniques, usuable in daily life are illustrated.
Finally a cause - consequence analysis of some major disasters. (Mexico-City, TMI, Bhopal, Tchernobyl e.o.) is presented and is illustrated using newspaper articles, reports and video films..
- Course material
- Handbook (Recommended) : An introduction to Reliability and Quality, Longman Scientific and Technical, Bentley,P.J., 2de, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 9780582089709, 1993
Handbook (Recommended) : Safeware : System safety and computers A guide to preventing accidents and losses caused by technology, System safety and computers A guide to preventing accidents and losses caused by technology, Leveson ,Nancy, Chapman & Hall,London, 9780201119725, 1995
Handbook (Recommended) : Software Reliability and Metrics, N. Fenton, B. Littlewood, Chapman & Hall,London, 9781851666751, 1991
Handbook (Recommended) : Electronic component reliability: Fundamentals, Modelling, Evaluation, and Assurance, Jensen F., Wiley ,New York, 9780471952961, 1996
Handbook (Recommended) : Reliability in Engineering Design, KAPUR, K. C., LAMBERSON L.R., JOHN WILEY,NEW YORK, 9780471511915, 1977
Handbook (Recommended) : Building Secure and Reliable Network Applications, Birman, K. P, Manning Publications, Greenwich, U.S.A, 9781884777295
Handbook (Recommended) : Reliability in communication Technology, Chown,Pullum and Whitmore, Chapman & Hall,London, 9780412617409, 1999
Handbook (Recommended) : Human Error, REASON, J., CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, 9780521314190, 1992
Handbook (Recommended) : Safety Critical Computer Systems, Storey, Neil, Addison-Wesley, Reading, 9780201427875, 1996
Handbook (Required) : Computer-related Risks, Neumann ,Peter, ADDISON-WESLEY, READING, 9780201558050, 1995
Course text (Required) : Betrouwbaarheids- en risicoanalyse van industriele systeem: deel 1, Betrouwbaarheidsanalyse, Van Overmeire, VUB, 2220170002989, 2009
Handbook (Recommended) : Introduction to Reliability Engineering, LEWIS , E. E., 2ND EDITION, JOHN WILEY,NEW YORK, 9780471018339, 1994
Course text (Required) : Betrouwbaarheids- en risicoanalyse van Industriële systemen: deel 2, Risico-analyse, Van Overmeire, VUB, 2220170002972, 2009
Course text (Required) : Opsporen en beheer van risico's, Betrouwbaarheids- en risicoanalyse van industriële systemen- Transparanten, Van Overmeire, VUB, 2220170008974, 2022
Handbook (Recommended) : Reliability Analysis for Engineers, an introduction, An Introduction , Leitch, R. D., Oxford Science Publications,Melbourne, 9780198563716, 1995
Handbook (Recommended) : Reliability for Technology, Engineering, and Management, Kales, P., Prentice Hall,New Jersey, Ohio, 9780134858227, 1998
Handbook (Recommended) : Reliability Engineering, ELSAYED, E A., 2de, ADDISON-WESLEY, READING, 9781118137192, 2012
Handbook (Recommended) : Probabilistic Risk Assessment; Reliability Engineering, Design and Analysis, Reliability Engineering, Design and Analysis, HENLEY,J., KUMAMOTO, H., 2de, IEEE PRESS, NEW YORK, 9780780360174, 2000
Handbook (Recommended) : Potential Failure Mode and Effect Analysis, FMEA, 4de, AIAG, 9781605341361, 2008
Handbook (Recommended) : Reliability and Maintainability in Perspective, SAE J-1739 DOCUMENT, SMITH,D. J., MC MILLAN,LONDON, 9780333391167, 1985
- Additional info
- Lecture and exercises are provided alternately. Following the conclusion of a theoretical part, exercises are started immediately. For the exercises students need to provide a calculator with exponential and logarithmical functions.
'Reliability and Risk Analysis of Industrial Systems', 1995, co-author : P. Olivier.
This course is published by the University Press and written in Dutch.
Complementary study material:
1. O'Connor, P.J.T 'Practical Reliability Engineering', John Wiley and Sons, 3rd revised Edition, 1995.
2. Henley, E.J., Kumamoto, H. 'Probabilistic Risk Assessment', IEEE Press, 1991.
All references, cited at end of each chapter are available in the departemental library.
- Learning Outcomes
-
General competencies
-aims and objectives :
The purpose of this course is to learn the student that reliability becomes an important parameter in design and production. Moreover the student has to access the risks involved in design and production.
- Grading
-
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Written Exam determines 100% of the final mark.
Within the Written Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
- Schriftelijk examen
with a relative weight of 1
which comprises 100% of the final mark.
Note: De student krijgt 4 uur om een aantal oefeningen op te lossen i.v.m. de basisprincipes en de verschillende technieken. Hij mag gebruikmaken van de kursus en al de referentiewerken.Hij mag ook gebruikmaken van al de opgeloste oefeningen.
- Additional info regarding evaluation
- Application of the reliability techniques on simple and complex systems.
Mode Assessment
Written examination : 100 %
The student has 4 hours to solve a number of exercises on reliability and risk engineering. He may use his courses and handbooks.
- Allowed unsatisfactory mark
- The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.
Academic context
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Master of Biomedical Engineering: Standaard traject (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Electromechanical Engineering: Mechatronics-Construction (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Electromechanical Engineering: Energy (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Electromechanical Engineering Technology: elektromechanica met specialisatie duurzame energie (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Electromechanical Engineering Technology: elektromechanica met specialisatie mechatronica (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Electromechanical Engineering Technology: elektromechanica met specialisatie vervoertechnologie (only offered in Dutch)