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Reliability Evaluation Considering the Information and Human Factors in the Advanced Pressurized water Reactor 1400MWe under Uncertainty (신형경수로 1400에서 정보와 인적요인을 고려한 신뢰성 평가)

  • Kang Young - Sig
    • Proceedings of the Society of Korea Industrial and System Engineering Conference
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    • 2002.05a
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    • pp.25-30
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    • 2002
  • The problem of qualitative reliability system is very important issue in the digitalized nuclear power plant, because the failure of its system brings about extravagant economic loss, extensive environment destruction, and fatal damage of human. Therefore this study is to develop the reliability evaluation model through the normalized scoring model by the quantitative and qualitative factors considering the advanced safety factors In the Advanced Pressurized water Reactor 1400MWe(APR 1400) under uncertainty Especially, the qualitative factors considering the information and human factors for the systematic and rational justification have been closely analyzed. The reliability evaluation model can be simply applied in real fields in order to minimize the industrial accident and human error in the digitalized nuclear power plant.

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A study for the reduction of the SW reliability test time and human errors using the SW reliability test automation

  • Kim, Hyoung-Kweon
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.20 no.10
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    • pp.45-51
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    • 2015
  • In this paper, we propose a way to reduce the SW reliability test time and human errors by utilizing the Lean Six Sigma methodology as a troubleshooting tool. Recently, SW technology is rapidly changing and the importance of SW management has been recognized. Accordingly, the SW reliable test for the SW development outcomes in one of the methods for SW quality improvement is required. However, it consumes a lot of development costs, has the time constraints and human errors in SW reliable test, so, it is difficult to meet the requirements for SW test.

A New Dynamic HRA Method and Its Application

  • Jae, Moosung
    • International Journal of Reliability and Applications
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.37-48
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    • 2001
  • This paper presents a new dynamic human reliability analysis method and its application for quantifying the human error probabilities in implementing management action. For comparisons of current HRA methods with the new method, the characteristics of THERP, HCR, and SLIM-MAUD, which are most frequency used method in PSAs, are discussed. The action associated with implementation of the cavity flooding during a station blackout sequence is considered for its application. This method is based on the concepts of the quantified correlation between the performance requirement and performance achievement. The MAAP 3.0B code and Latin Hypercube sampling technique are used to determine the uncertainty of the performance achievement parameter. Meanwhile, the value of the performance requirement parameter is obtained from interviews. Based on these stochastic obtained, human error probabilities are calculated with respect to the various means and variances of the things. It is shown that this method is very flexible in that it can be applied to any kind of the operator actions, including the actions associated with the implementation of accident management strategies.

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Reliability assessment of RC shear wall-frame buildings subjected to seismic loading

  • Tuken, Ahmet;Dahesh, Mohamed A.;Siddiqui, Nadeem A.
    • Computers and Concrete
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    • v.20 no.6
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    • pp.719-729
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    • 2017
  • A considerable research is available on the seismic response of Reinforced Concrete (RC) shear wall-frame buildings, but the studies on the reliability of such buildings, with the consideration of human error, are limited. In the present study, a detailed procedure for reliability assessment of RC shear wall-frame building subjected to earthquake loading against serviceability limit state is presented. Monte Carlo simulation was used for the reliability assessment. The procedure was implemented on a 10-story RC building to demonstrate that the shear walls improve the reliability substantially. The annual and life-time failure probabilities of the studied building were estimated by employing the information of the annual probability of earthquake occurrence and the design life of the building. A simple risk-based cost assessment procedure that relates both the structural life-time failure probability and the target reliability with the total cost of the building was then presented. The structural failure probability (i.e., the probability of exceeding the allowable drift) considering human errors was also studied. It was observed that human error in the estimation of total load and/or concrete strength changes the reliability sharply.

Selection of Influencing Factors for Human Reliability Analysis of Accident Management Tasks in Nuclear Power Plants (원자력 발전소 사고관리 직무의 인간신뢰도분석을 위한 수행영향인자의 선정)

  • Kim, Jae-Hwan;Jeong, Won-Dae
    • Journal of the Ergonomics Society of Korea
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.1-28
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    • 2001
  • This paper deals with the selection of the important Influencing Factors (IFs) under accident management situations in nuclear power plants for use in the assessment of human errors. In order to achieve this goal, we collected two types of IF taxonomies, one is the full set IF list mainly developed for human error analysis. and the other is the IFs for human reliability analysis (HRA) in probabilistic safety assessment (PSA). Five sets of IF taxonomy among the full set IF list and ten sets of IF taxonomy among HRA methodologies were collected in the study. From the review and analysis of BRA IFs, we could obtain some insights for the selection of HRA IFs. By considering the situational characteristics of the accident management domain, candidate IFs are chosen. Finally, those IFs are structured hierarchically to be appropriate for the use in the assessment of human error under accident management situation. Three nuclear accidents such as TMI. Chernobyl and JCO were analysed to validate the proposed taxonomy.

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SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS IN FUZZY RELIABILITY ANALYSISA

  • Onisawa, Takehisa
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1988.10b
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    • pp.764-769
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    • 1988
  • In this paper the failure possibility and the error possibility are used to represent reliability of a technical component and that of a human operator, respectively. The failure possibility and the error possibility are fuzzy sets on the interval [0,1]. In a man-machine system, reliability of the technical component and that of the human operator are usually affected by many factors, e.g., the environment in which a machine is operated, psychological stress of the human operator, etc. The possibility is derived from not only the failure or the error rate but also estimates of these factors. The fuzzy reasoning plays an important role in the derivation. The reliability analysis is performed by the use of the possibility obtained by the present method. Moreover this paper discusses the sensitivity analysis which evaluates what extent the change of the estimation of each factor has an influence on reliability of a man-machine system. The important factors to be ameliorated are shown through the sensitivity analysis.

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Development of human rights indicators for dental hygiene students (치위생(학)과 학생들의 인권 실태 지표 개발: 치과의료기관 임상실습을 중심으로)

  • Won, Yoon-Ah;Noh, Hie-Jin;Mun, So-Jung;Chung, Won-Gyun;Park, Bo-Young;Sim, Eun-Bi;Choi, Eun-Mi
    • Journal of Korean society of Dental Hygiene
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    • v.21 no.3
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    • pp.291-300
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    • 2021
  • Objectives: This study aimed to develop human rights indicators through reliability and validity tests in order to measure the human rights situation of dental hygiene students who experience clinical practice at dental clincs. Methods: The basic framework of questions was constructed through literature review. Nine experts were tested for validity of the contents of the experts twice. The main survey was conducted on 121 students in the 3rd and 4th grade who were enrolled in the department of dental hygiene located in Seoul, Gyeonggi and Gangwon-do. Validity was tested through exploratory factor analysis, and reliability was tested through internal reliability coefficient and test-retest method. Results: The cronbach's α value was 0.734, and the Kappa coefficient was 0.584. The result of the reliability and validity test was composed of 11 questions and 3 factors. Conclusions: During the practice of a dental institution, the validity and reliability of the indicators that can grasp the human rights status of dental hygiene students were tested. It is expected that the indicators of this study will be provided an opportunity to understand the human rights situation of dental hygiene students and to improve problems such as human rights violations.

Human Reliability Analysis Using Reliability Physics Models (신뢰도 물리모델을 이용한 인간신뢰도분석 연구)

  • Moo-sung Jae
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.123-130
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    • 2002
  • This paper presents a new dynamic human reliability analysis method and its application for quantifying the human error probabilities in implementing accident management actions. The action associated with implementation of the cavity flooding during a station blackout sequence is considered for its application. This method is based on the concept of the quantified correlation between the performance requirement and performance achievement. For comparisons of current HRA methods with the new method, the characteristics of THERP, HCR, and SLIM-MAUD, which m most frequency used method in PSAs, are discussed. The MAAP code and Latin Hypercube sampling technique are used to determine the uncertainty of the performance achievement parameter. Meanwhile, the value of the performance requirement parameter is obtained from interviews. Based on these stochastic obtained, human error probabilities are calculated with respect to the various means and variances of the things. It is shown that this method is very flexible in that it can be applied to any kind of the operator actions, including the actions associated with the implementation of accident management strategies.

Considerations for generating meaningful HRA data: Lessons learned from HuREX data collection

  • Kim, Yochan
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.52 no.8
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    • pp.1697-1705
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    • 2020
  • To enhance the credibility of human reliability analysis, various kinds of data have been recently collected and analyzed. Although it is obvious that the quality of data is critical, the practices or considerations for securing data quality have not been sufficiently discussed. In this work, based on the experience of the recent human reliability data extraction projects, which produced more than fifty thousand data-points, we derive a number of issues to be considered for generating meaningful data. As a result, thirteen considerations are presented here as pertaining to the four different data extraction activities: preparation, collection, analysis, and application. Although the lessons were acquired from a single kind of data collection framework, it is believed that these results will guide researchers to consider important issues in the process of extracting data.