The RAMS seminar is an arena to meet, share and discuss NTNU research in the RAMS field
(Photos: by Yiliu Liu)
- RAMS group meetings/seminars are arranged once every week, tentatively every Friday, 14:00-15:00 in VG11 (basement) at NTNU - Valgrinda.
- Most times, a paper or topic of research is presented and discussed. The main presenters are the PhD students, but also the academic staff and guests that work with RAMS.
- The seminar is open to master students, PhD students, Postdocs, academic staff and guests who are interested in the RAMS field.
- The topics and invitations are also distributed via e-mails. If you want to be on the list to present and discuss a topic we may help you with, please email: yun.zhang@ntnu.no
| Agenda |
| 1. All: What's new |
| 2. Feature presentation (see updated program below) |
| 3. Next meeting |
| 4. Any other business |
| 5. Adjourn |
Program 2017 spring
The venue is VG11 in basement at NTNU-Valgrinda.
| When | Who | What |
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20.01.2017 | Cancelled | No meeting this week. |
| 27.01.2017 | Prof. Anne Barros | Title: Modelling degradations, condition based maintenance and imperfect tests for Safety Instrumented System Classical analytical models developed to quantify the availability of Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS) are currently based on the assumption of exponential lifetime distributions for all the units they are made of (1). The aim of the present work is to show how some stochastic modeling framework based on renewal processes, virtual age and multiphase Markov processes can be used to generalize existing analytical tools. The main goal is to include other lifetime laws than the exponential one (e.g. Weibull law or lifetime based on discrete state degradation process) and to model the possible effects of tests and condition-based maintenance. The presentation this Friday will focus on a preliminary discussion about Weibull law versus Exponential law. (1) M. Rausand, Reliability of Safety Critical Systems, Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. 2014 |
| 03.02.2017 | Prof. Antoine Rauzy | TBA |
| 10.02.2017 | ||
| 17.02.2017 | ||
| 24.02.2017 | ||
| 03.03.2017 | ||
| 10.03.2017 | ||
| 17.03.2017 | ||
| 24.03.2017 | ||
| 31.03.2017 | Prof. Gerd Kjølle | Gerd Kjølle is going to make a presentation about reliability of power systems and give some examples of topics and projects she is working with in this field, including the new centre for environment-friendly research CINELDI. She is Master of science (sivilingeniør) in electric power engineering, NTH 1984. PhD (doctor ingeniør) in electric power engineering, NTNU 1996. Diploma in the Theory and Practice of Teaching, NTH 1986. Gerd Kjølle's main position is at SINTEF Energy Research, Department of Energy Systems as Chief Scientist. She is centre director at Centre for Intelligent Electricity Distribution - CINELDI. Responsible for the PhD course ET8207 Power system reliability. For more information, please refer to https://www.ntnu.edu/employees/gerd.kjolle. |
Program 2016 autumn
The venue is VG11 in basement at NTNU-Valgrinda.
| When | Who | What |
|---|---|---|
08.09.2016
| Shinae Lee Prof. Jinyong Yao | Please welcome new PhD-student Shinae Lee to our group. Shinae is a former student in international RAMS master program. She will introduce herself (approx. 10 min). Besides, this academic year we have a new visiting scholar: Professor Jinyong Yao from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (Beihang University), China. He will introduce himself, the institute of Reliability and System Engineering of Beihang and its curriculum (approx.35 min). Do not hesitate to meet him up. Prof. Yao is very happy to talk with any of us. We will also agree on the dates and content for the seminars this autumn. |
16.09.2016
| Marta Bucelli Shengnan Wu HyungJu Kim
| Please welcome a new exchange PhD student Marta Bucelli (from Italy) to our group. She will introduce herself (approx.10 min) In addition, one PostDoc and three of the PhD candidates in our group are going to present in PSAM / ESREL 2016. We may use two seminars to go through their topics and preferably collect some comments on the slides. - Shengnan Wu: Reliability assessment for subsea HIPPS valves with partial stroke testing (ESREL presentation shengnan wu.pdf) - HyungJu Kim: A Gap Analysis for Subsea Control and Safety Philosophies on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (PSAM13 Kim - 20160916.pdf) Finally, we should discuss the list of candidate topics that professors can present for the following scientific seminars. |
| 23.09.2016 | Mario Marcondes Machado Yun Zhang Juntao Zhang | Mario is going to leave us in October. Before he leaves, he will present an overview of his research works done here and share with us his experiences living in Norway. Continue trial presentations for ESREL 2016. - Yun Zhang: Assessment of a condition-based maintenance policy for Subsea systems: A preliminary study (ESREL2016_Yun.pdf) - Juntao Zhang: Using Bayesian Networks to quantify the reliability of a subsea system in the early design (Juntao zhang ESREL16 presentation.pdf) |
| 30.09.2016 | ESREL 2016 | No meeting this week. |
| 14.10.2016 | Cancelled | Due to close of schools and kindergardens, many parents would stay at home this day. So the seminar is cancelled this week. |
| 21.10.2016 | Prof. Antoine Rauzy | Topic: Reliability Assessment of Complex Systems (Rauzy2016 - ESREL Keynote Tutorial.pdf) This keynote presentation received good feedbacks at ESREL 2016, and Professor Antoine Rauzy would like to share with us the updated version at RAMS seminar.The whole presentation may be separated into several sessions through this semester. This tutorial aims to present some important results and current challenges of reliability assessment of complex systems. The presentation focuses on issues related to models, modelling formalisms and assessment algorithms. It sketches a research and development program for the reliability engineering community. This week the 1st part "The reliability assessment process" is presented. |
| 28.10.2016 | Cancelled | No meeting this week. |
| 04.11.2016 | Prof. Antoine Rauzy | Antoine will continue with his keynote presentation. This week the 2nd part "Fundamental complexity results" is presented. |
| 11.11.2016 | Prof. Antoine Rauzy | Antoine will continue with his keynote presentation. The week the 3rd part "Model based system engineering" is presented. |
| 18.11.2016 | Thor Myklebust | Thor Myklebust is going to give a scientific talk about RAMS in Railway sector, including assessment. The topic is delimited to signaling systems (mainly SIL4). (01 TM RAMS assessor_assessment CSM_NoBo_DeBo og ISA v03f40.pdf) Thor Myklebust is currently the Research manager/Business developer in Functional Safety in SINTEF ICT Norway. He is a Cand. Scient. Physics year 1980-1986 from Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He has experience in certification of products and systems since 1987. Myklebust has participated in several international committees since 1988. He is now a member of
He is the chairman of NB-rail October 2014-October 2015. And he is the founder of SafeScrum. |
| 25.11.2016 | Ass. Prof. Baoping Cai | Baoping Cai (City University of Hong Kong, China) will give a presentation about his research activities in the last decade.(NTNU-Our recent research.pdf) He is the associate professor of China University of Petroleum and works as “Hong Kong Scholar” visiting researcher of City University of Hong Kong. He is the deputy director of experimental teaching center of mechanical engineering of China University of Petroleum, member of IEEE, and sensor member of Chinese mechanical engineering society. He has published more than 100 journal and conference papers, granted 35 China patents and 1 USA patent. He has published 3 monographs. In addition, he has finished 11 projects as PI, e.g. the national natural science foundation of China, the national high technology research and development program of China (863 Program) etc. His research interests include reliability engineering, fault diagnosis, risk analysis, and Bayesian networks methodology and application. Currently, he is working on the Bayesian-network-based fault detection and diagnosis methodology and has developed two diagnosis systems for subsea blowout preventer and subsea Christmas tree system. |
| 02.12.2016 | Cancelled | No meeting this week. |
| 09.12.2016 | Cancelled | Christmas lunch. |
| 16.12.2016 | Xiangfen Wang Liu Yang | Please welcome Xiangfen Wang, a new visiting scholar from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (Beihang University), China. She will introduce herself, the laboratory and her academic researches (20 min). Her current research focus is reliability evaluation for SRAM-based FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array). Besides, we have a new PhD Liu Yang, who is the student of Professor Antoine Rauzy. She graduated from the Sino-French Engineering School of Beihang University (Beijing, China). Her master’s thesis is “New Calculation Models of the Failure Risk assessment of Aero-Engine rotor disk”, where she developed a new algorithm and improved the calculation efficiency from hours to seconds. Her research topic in NTNU will be “Fault Tree Synthesis”, which allows to reconstruct a fault tree by the given system and its minimal cut sets. She will introduce herself and the topic (20 min). |
Program first half 2016
The venue is VG12 in basement at NTNU-Valgrinda. Exceptions are February 26th, March 4th, March 11th and March 18th when we got the next door room VG11
| When | Who | What |
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| 12.02.2016 | All | We'll meet at 11:00 in VG12 to plan the seminars for this spring.
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| 19.02.2016 | Shengnan Wu & Ass. Prof. Nicola Paltrinieri | Please welcome the introductions of visiting PhD-student in the RAMS group (main contact person: Yiliu Liu), and at same time also our new Ass. Prof. Nicola Paltrinieri.
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| 04.03.2016 | Hyung-Ju Kim | Presentation of journal paper submitted for review. "Enhanced Barrier Management by Learning from Accident Causation Theories" Abstract Several accident causation theories have been developed to identify why major accidents occur and to prevent them from occurring (see e.g., Rosness et al., 2010). The objective of this article is to investigate relations among the theories and suggest an enhanced barrier management process utilising the learnings from each accident causation theory. By utilising the accident causation theories and the barrier and operational risk analysis (BORA) as a basis, this article suggests two additional stages to the barrier management process and six additional risk influencing factors (RIFs) in the barrier analysis, which can enhance barrier management process. The enhanced barrier management process may facilitate effective and efficient control of risks which can lead to major accidents, and thereby it may contribute to preventing major accidents in many different industries where barriers play an important role for controlling risks. |
| 18.03.2016 | Geir-Ove Strand | Human factors in offshore drilling operations Revisit of presentation on subject from late 2014. Finally, after years struggle navigating through many human factor domains we've managed to hopefully make a decent version that now has been submitted for puplication.
Abstract The main principle for risk control during offshore well activities is to always maintain two independent and tested well barriers towards any potential source of inflow. The short lifespan and dynamic nature of well drilling operations makes this a challenge. Experiences from several industry accidents the last decade reveal that two well barriers were not properly maintained by the drilling crew during the operation, and thus that well safety was compromised. Probabilistic risk assessments are viewed as key in managing risk of low probability and high consequence activities. The purpose of this paper is to identify and discuss performance influencing factors relevant to performing well probabilistic risk assessments. In this paper we revisit four historic well accidents in the last decade based on the statements made by drilling personnel that the human-machine interface is vital in providing the drilling crew with a necessary understanding of in-situ wellbore flowrates and pressures. Monitoring the flowrates and pressures in the well are the most important factors in well control from a well energy containment perspective. Three out of the accidents appeared in support for the importance of monitoring in-situ flowrates and pressures to maintain well control. However, one accident occurred in spite of state of the art technology for wellbore pressure- and flowrate monitoring. This blowout can to a larger extent be explained as a violation that stem from an over-confidence emerging from use of this new technology. The over-confidence allowed for breaching the safe envelope of best drilling practises. |
| 01.04.2016 | Prof. Antoine Rauzy | Course on Systems Engineering (discussion) Antoine would like to present a course on Systems Engineering he created for Ecole Centrale Paris. The course is an introduction to Systems Engineering, or more exactly to Systems Modelling. It is delivered to the whole promotion of first year students (which corresponds to third year of the university), i.e. 500 students, on the flipped classroom principle. This seminar aims at launching a discussion on what could be done at NTNU in this direction. |
| 29.04.2016 | Mario Marcondes Machado | "Maintenance Optimization Approaches for Condition Based Maintenance: a review and analysis" Authors: Mario Marcondes Machado and Cecilia Haskins. To appear at the 26th INCOSE. There will be cake++ since we also will celebrate som B-days |
| 20.05.2016 | Ass. Prof. Nicola Paltrinieri. | Nicola will present the highlights from the book on dynamic risk assessments that is soon to be published.
ISBN: 9780128037652 |
| 03.06.2016 | Visiting Prof. Jorge Siopa | This week from Wednesday to Friday we have a visiting professor in the office from an ERASMUS program: Jorge Siopa from Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Leiria, Portugal. Prof. Siopa is in the process of 're-starting' his research activities again after many years of teaching. Prof. Siopa will introduce himself, the Institute of Leira: http://www.ipleiria.pt/home/, and present some of his ideas for future research within topics of "maintenance optimisation". Please meet up. Prof. Siopa is very interested in any inputs from us on potential research topics (maintenance optimisation). |
| 10.06.2016 | Ass. Prof. Phuc Do Van | Ass. Prof. Phuc Do Van, University of Nancy, France will give a presentation entitled: "Energy efficiency for condition-based maintenance decision-making” Phuc Do is currently working as an associate professor at Lorraine University, Research Centre for Automatic Control (CRAN CNRS UMR 7039), France. He received his Ph.D. in Systems Optimisation and Dependability in 2008 from Troyes University of Technology (France) where he held an assistant professor position from 2009 to 2011. His research interests include stochastic modelling for the evaluation/prediction of key performance indicators (reliability, energy efficiency, …), maintenance optimization (condition-based maintenance, prognostics-based maintenance decision-making, opportunistic and dynamic grouping maintenance), reliability importance measures and their related applications. Phuc Do supervised 4 pre-doctoral thesis and 4 PhD candidates. He has published 13 journal articles in journals (Reliability Engineering & System Safety, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, European Journal of Operational Research; Journal of Risk and Reliability, etc) and over 30 conference articles in international conferences. He is co-chair of the MIMAR2016 Conference (the 9th international conference on modelling in industrial maintenance and reliability, London, July 2016). |
| 17.06.2016 | Florence Petiet | Note that the seminar is re-scheduled to: 10:00-11:00. Florence Petiet will give an introduction to Bayesian Networks and their use in Reliability, as well as an overview of her research activity. Florence is currently PHD candidate at IFSTTAR, France (http://www.ifsttar.fr/en/welcome/) and is visiting the RAMS group for 2 months. IFSTTAR (1150 staff members) is The French Institute of Science and Technology for Transport, Development and Networks. IFSTTAR’s role is to carry out and commission, direct, lead and appraise research, development and innovation in the areas of urban engineering, civil engineering, and construction materials, natural hazards, the transportation of persons and goods, systems and means of transport and their safety, infrastructure, and investigate their uses and impacts from the technical, economic, social, health, energy, environmental and human points of view. This role is, in particular, focused on assisting its supervising ministries, other administrations and the organizations associated with them, local and regional authorities, European and international institutions, professional bodies, firms and users’ associations. |
| 27.06.2016 | Postdoc Canh Hai Vu | Unfortunately, Canh Vu is leaving us next week. He has accepted a new job in Vietnam, and will start there in beginning of July. We therefore like to use this seminar to jointly say goodbye. Before leaving us Canh will present an overview of his research in the SVV project Since there is pizza served at 11:30, we will start seminar at 12:30. Ice cream will be served. Please respond to this meeting request so that we know whether to buy 2, 3 or 10 liters of icecream. |
| - | - | No more meetings until August due to holiday season |
Program second half 2015
| Date | Who | Topic | Who's providing snack (cake, fruit, similar)? | Alternate presenter | Alternate topic |
| 26.08.2015 | Mario Marchondes Machado | Please welcome Mario, our newly arrived PhD visiting student from Petrobras (Brasil), who will introduce himself (10min). | Prof. Mary Ann Lundteigen | ||
| 26.08.2015 | Ji-Min Lu | RESS paper (15minutes) Reliability analysis of large phased-mission systems with repairable components based on success-state sampling. "Jimmer'n" will also present some thoughts about his future research. | |||
| 02.09.2015 | Sverre Kvalheim | ESREL paper 2015: CRM in offshore drilling (15min) | Geir-Ove Strand | ||
| 02.09.2015 | Abraham Almaw Jigar | ESREL paper 2015: Availability allocation (15min) | Geir-Ove Strand | ESREL paper 2015 (revisited): BOP systems MPM reliability analysis; M05_051_Presentation.pptx | |
| 09.09.2015 | ESREL | No meeting this week | |||
| 16.09.2015 | Ms./Mrs. Yun Zhang & Mr. Juntao Zhang. | Please welcome the introductions of two new PhD-students in the RAMS group (SFI SUBPRO). Both are former international master students at NTNU. | Xue Yang | ||
| 16.09.2015 | Postdoc Canh Hai Vu | ESREL paper 2015: Maintenance grouping (15min)
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| 23.09.2015 | Prof. Genserik Reniers (TU Delft / University of Antwerp / KULeuven) | Presentation: "Cost-benefit assessment of safety measures” From http://www.tbm.tudelft.nl/: Prof.dr. G.L.L.M.E. Genserik Reniers obtained a Master's degree in chemical engineering at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and received his PhD in Applied Economic Sciences from the University of Antwerp. He was appointed in a part-time capacity as a Full Professor at the Delft University of Technology, at the Safety and Security Science Group. At the University of Antwerp, he is a visiting/full professor lecturing amongst others in chemistry, organic chemistry, chemical process technology, and Technological Risk Management. He is also visiting professor Security Management at the Antwerp Management School, Risk Management at ITMMA, and Risk Analysis in a Postgraduate Disaster Management at VESTA. At the KULeuven campus of the HUB in Brussels he lectures as a professor, amongst others, in prevention management, advanced occupational health and safety management and chemical processes/unit operations. His main research interests concern the collaboration surrounding safety and security topics and socio-economic optimization within the chemical industry. He coordinates the Antwerp Research Group on Safety and Security, unifying multi-disciplinary safety and security research at the University of Antwerp. He has extensive experience in leading research projects funded both by the Belgian government and the chemical industry. | Harald Rødseth | ||
| 30.09.2015 | Cancelled | Due to a lot of people absent today we will have to cancel this weeks meeting. As alternative this day we encourage you to go to Gløshaugen auditorium S4 at 08:15: Liv Nielsen (HSE&Q Director in ENI Norge) will keep a guest lecture about the use of ALARP in offshore development projects: Time: Wednesday 30.9 kl 0815-0930 Auditorium: S4 (Gløshaugen) All are welcome! | |||
| 07.10.2015 | Postdoc Canh Hai Vu | Discussion of new idea about risk-based grouping maintenance. | Abraham Almaw Jigar | ||
| 14.10.2015 | Hyung-Ju Kim | Presentation of published paper: Reliability analysis of the IMO regulation - Safe Return to Port | Hyung-Ju Kim | Btw: Congrats to Hyung-Ju! Hyung-Ju Kim, Stein Haugen & Ingrid Bouwer Utne DOI:10.1080/17445302.2015.1023068 | |
| 21.10.2015 | Prof. Mary Ann Lundteigen | Presentation of SFI SUBPRO (15-30min) | |||
| 26.10.2015 | Geir-Ove Strand | NB! This is a Monday meet from ca. 12:00 onwards. Paper peer-review run as miniseminar: Scrutiny of state of quantitative human/org. risk influence modelling. New concept of human error mechanisms and discussion of applicability to probabilistic risk assessments of well drilling ops. | |||
| 28.10.2015 | Xue Yang | Presentation of draft paper: Risk Information for Operational Decision-Making in the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry (15min). Sverre Kvalheim will be opponent. | Btw: Congrats to Xue on Classification of risk to support decision-making in hazardous processes! Xue Yang & Stein Haugen | ||
| 03.11.2015 | Postdoc Fares Innal | Note that this is Tuesday (Nov. 3rd), that time is 10:00 in the morning, and venue is VG13 (Valgrinda). Fares will give a lecture on Monte-Carlo simulation for reliability analysis kept as part of Mary Ann’s course (TPK5170). He will address uncertainty propagation of analysis in detail, something we assume will be of interest for most of you. Many thanks to Fares for a comprehensive introduction to MC. Material; INNAL_Simulation_NTNU.pdf, INNAL_Excel files to MC simulation presentation.zip | |||
| 04.11.2015 | Yun Zhang, Juntao Zhang & Mario Marcondes Machado. | Presentation of themselves and their work. Zhang & Zhang are fresh PhD candidates in SFI SUBPRO, and Mario is 1yr PhD exchange student from Petrobras and Brasil (down-stream process) working on maintenance optimisation with particular focus on condition monitoring. | |||
| 11.11.2015 | Cancelled | No meeting this week | |||
| 18.11.2015 | Cancelled | No meeting this week | |||
| 25.11.2015 | BERLIN | No meeting this week. | |||
| 02.12.2015 | Cancelled | No meeting this week. However, please note on Thursday and Friday that we have a visiting PhD student, Nan Zhang, who Anne is co-supervisor with Mitra Fouladirad from UTT. Nan Zhang is in her second year and is working on degradation modelling and prognostic. She has a background in applied mathematics. Welcome! | |||
| 09.12.2015 | SUBPRO seminar | PHD seminar part of the SUBPRO project. The program is shown below. I think it can be of interest for us and can be a good replacement to our cancelled seminar. Anne will go there with the SUBPRO members of the RAMS group. Please meet Anne's gang 13:30ish by the coffee machine for those other that would like to attend ********************************************************************************************************************************************* Subject: SUBPRO PhD colloquium Wednesday 9 December Dear SUBPRO team members We remind you about the SUBPRO PhD Colloquium on Wednesday 9 December. Place: Kjemiblokk V, 2nd floor, Room 201 Time: 14:00 - 15:30 Pizza will be served. Program: · Short introduction the area of System control (Sigurd Skogestad) · Project 3.7 Estimation of unmeasured process variables (PhD candidate Tamal Das) · Project 3.8 Control degrees of freedom for optimal operation and extending remaining useful life (PhD candidate Adriaen Verheyleweghen) · Comments and informal discussions
We encourage SUBPRO people from all projects to participate, as the intention with these colloquia is to inspire collaboration across the projects. Welcome, Jon Lippe Project Coordinator, SUBPRO project Subsea Production and Processing Email: jon.lippe@ntnu.no
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| 16.12.2015 | Harald Rødseth | Improving maintenance by profit indicators | |||
| - | - | No more meetings in 2015 due to holiday season |