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Aim

The overall aim of the RAMS group is: 

          To be an internationally leading research group on selected topics within the RAMS area, and to offer world-class education in RAMS.

Focus areas

The RAMS group focuses on four areas of research:

  1. Reliability Assessment of Safety-Critical Systems - especially safety-instrumented systems such as emergency shutdown systems, fire and gas systems, and automatic train control.
  2. Reliability Engineering - where reliability analyses and reliability considerations are integrated into the design and development process of new systems
  3. Risk-based maintenance planning - developing methods and plans to prevent accidents caused by lack of, or erroneously performed maintenance.
  4. New methods for risk analysis - with emphasis on modeling socio-technical systems in risk analyses in the operational phase, where results are used in operational decision-making.

Three Categories of Research

The RAMS group focuses on three categories of research:

  • Basic research without external funding
  • Basic and applied research mainly based on PhD projects
  • Externally funded research projects (e.g., funded by the EU, the Norwegian Research Council, and joint industry projects.)

Strategy

Our strategy to fulfill the aim of the group is to:


1. Improve and extend the research activity:
  • Search for new PhD and postdoc opportunities, through:
    • Active collaboration with SINTEF and other research institutes, to create new research project initiatives that include PhD scholarships.
    • Expand our participation in the ROSS Gemini centre (http://www.ntnu.edu/ross)
    • Explore opportunities to recruit PhD candidates from industry through the Industrial PhD Scheme (“Nærings-PhD”).
    • Strengthen our cooperation with Norwegian and international industry to create new joint research projects and to obtain new positions sponsored by the industry. Today, our main industrial collaborators are: AkerSolutions, DNV GL, ENI, ExproSoft, Stiftelsen GKJ, the Norwegian Railway Administration, Safetec (ABS), Shell and Statoil.
  • Extend our cooperation with internationally leading research groups, such as the University of Maryland (USA), the University of Stuttgart (Germany), the Université Technologie de Troyes (France), Ecole des Mines de Nantes and ParisTech (France).
  • Develop new collaborations with other scientific disciplines (internally and externally), to pursue research in new areas and for new applications (e.g., related to physical deterioration, computer science and cybernetics).
  • Extend our collaboration with other research groups at the department, such as with production systems (especially related to subsea production and processing systems).
2. Ensure high quality of our research:
  • Strengthen the requirements for accepting candidates for available PhD positions.
  • Improve our search procedures to get better applicants for new PhD scholarships and market the possibility to go from the two-year international master programme in RAMS to a PhD scholarship.
  • Extend and improve our use of internal peer review before submission of papers (in relation to the group’s PhD seminars and by having another academic staff member to review the paper).
3. Disseminate knowledge to the industry, the research community and the society:
  • Publish research results in internationally recognized journals and at international conferences with peer review.
  • Write and contribute to new books/monographs for engineers, for researchers and as course textbooks.
  • Present papers at national and international research and industry forums. National forums of relevance are the PDS forum and ESRA seminars. International forums are, for example, the ESREL and PSAM conferences.
  • Lecture high-quality courses at master and PhD-level and continuing education courses in RAMS that are continuously improved in light of new research, new standards and new needs identified in contact with industry.
  • Share our on-going research activities and general RAMS information at the NTNU web-pages (e.g., http://www.ntnu.edu/ross), by dedicated wiki-pages and by social media tools, such as LinkedIn and Twitter.
  • Make a selection of our lectured topics available via internet (e.g., iTunesU)
  • Use our competence in the framing of key standards, guidelines, strategies, and activities within RAMS, by involvement in scientific and professional organizations such as ESRA, IEC, CEN, EFNMS. 


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