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Ali Zaib, Jingbo Yin and Rafi Ullah Khan
Safety has been a primary concern in every industry. It includes system, personnel, environmental safety, etc. Maritime transportation safety is of the utmost importance because a lot of economic and environmental damage has been caused by ship-related a...
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Konstantinos Milioulis, Victor Bolbot and Gerasimos Theotokatos
Recent regulatory requirements for shipping emissions control have led to the adoption of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) as a marine fuel and the design of LNG-fuelled vessels. Considering the potential safety implications due to system failure/unavailabili...
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Sungil Byun and Dongik Lee
This paper presents a phased fault tree analysis (phased-FTA)-based approach to evaluate the performability of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) in real time. AUVs carry out a wide range of missions, including surveying the marine environment, search...
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Hyonjeong Noh, Kwangu Kang and Jin-Yeong Park
Autonomous underwater vehicles have long been used in marine explorations, and their application in recent polar expeditions is particularly noteworthy. However, the complexity and extreme conditions of the polar environment pose risks to the stable oper...
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Faisal Mahmood, Seyed M. Hashemi and Hekmat Alighanbari
Growing concerns over the CO2 footprint due the exponential demand of the aviation industry, along with the requirements for high aerodynamic performance, cost saving, and manoeuvrability during different phases of a flight, pave the path towards adaptab...
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Jiang-bin Zhao, Meng-tao Liang, Zao-yan Zhang, Jian Cui and Xian-gang Cao
Shearer-cutting units are important parts of coal production. However, they have high fault frequency, and their maintenance activities are costly and time-consuming. Coal enterprises urgently need an effective fault analysis method for shearer-cutting u...
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Huan Chen, Ke Zhang, Kun Zhou, Tugen Feng, Xiaotong Sun, Xingchen Kuang, Yang Li and Zuocai Wang
The stability of a steel bracing system is one of the most important indicators by which to measure the stability of the foundation pit. Although a steel bracing system can be monitored using the axial force data, it is subject to the risk of sudden chan...
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Xiaoxiao Zheng, Yisheng Liu, Jun Jiang and Nan Su
Disputes involved in public?private partnership (PPP) projects destroy the relationship between governments and private partners and generate huge losses. To multiply the chances of successfully preventing disputes, a holistic understanding of how a PPP ...
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Kerelous Waghen and Mohamed-Salah Ouali
This paper develops a data-driven fault tree methodology that addresses the problem of the fault prognosis of an aging system based on an interpretable time causality analysis model. The model merges the concepts of knowledge discovery in the dataset and...
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Junmin Mou, Xuefei Jia, Pengfei Chen and Linying Chen
The operation of offshore wind farms is characterized by a complicated operational environment, long project cycle, and complex vessel traffic, which lead to safety hazards. To identify the key factors affecting the operational safety of offshore wind fa...
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Young-Joong Ahn, Yong-Ung Yu and Jong-Kwan Kim
Fire and explosion accidents occur frequently in tankers because they transport large quantities of dangerous cargo. To prevent fire and explosion accidents, it is necessary to analyze factors that cause accidents and their effects. In this study, factor...
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Fausto Pedro García Márquez, Isaac Segovia Ramírez, Behnam Mohammadi-Ivatloo and Alberto Pliego Marugán
New wind turbines are becoming more complex and reliability analysis of them rising in complexity. The systems are composed of many components. Fault tree is used as an useful tool to analyze these interrelations and provide a scheme of the wind turbine,...
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Vlatko Kne?evic, Josip Orovic, Ladislav Stazic and Jelena Culin
The reliability of marine propulsion systems depends on the reliability of several sub-systems of a diesel engine. The scavenge air system is one of the crucial sub-systems of the marine engine with a turbocharger as an essential component. In this paper...
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Muhammad Arif Budiyanto and Haris Fernanda
The use of containers in the world is increasing every year in line with international trade flows. In very complex container terminal operations, the risk of work accidents is inevitable and can happen at any time. Therefore, this paper aimed to identif...
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Petr Trávnícek, Lubo? Kotek, Tomá? Koutný, Tomá? Vítez
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Biogas plants are a specific facility from the QRA (Quantitative Risk Assessment) methodologies' point of view, especially in the case of the determination of the event frequency of accident scenarios for biogas leakage from a gas holder and subsequent i...
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Barbara Tchórzewska-Cieslak, Katarzyna Pietrucha-Urbanik, Janusz Rak, Dorota Papciak, Petr Hlavínek and Krzysztof Chmielowski
The lack of biochemical stability in drinking water increases the secondary contamination risk in water supply systems and hence represents a sanitary threat to consumers. The work presented here assesses the likelihood of such risk. The assessment is ba...
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Ali Beiki Ashkezari, Mahsa Zokaee, Amir Aghsami, Fariborz Jolai and Maziar Yazdani
To successfully complete a project, selecting the most appropriate construction method and configuration is critical. There are, however, plenty of challenges associated with these complex decision-making processes. Clients require projects with the desi...
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Mahmood Shafiee, Evenye Enjema and Athanasios Kolios
Engineering systems such as energy production facilities, aviation systems, maritime vessels, etc. continue to grow in size and complexity. This growth has made the identification, quantification and mitigation of risks associated with the failure of suc...
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Na Xu, Keyi Di, Feifei Liu, Wencheng Zhao and Bo Zhang
Lift-jacking accidents are one of the five common accidents in the lift field, characterised as a high hazard. In addition, it is difficult to obtain absolute probabilities of risk factors for lift accidents which are ambiguous and uncertain. In order to...
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Zhaoxia Cui, Minghai Zheng, Jin Wang and Jiang Liu
Pouring is an important process in the production of solid propellant rocket engines, and usually, the cost of a solid propellant rocket engine is extremely high. Therefore, pouring production with high reliability is very important. The pouring of three...
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