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Reliability-Based Design of a Safety-Critical Automation System: A Case StudyIn 1986, NASA funded a project to modernize the NASA Ames Research Center Unitary Plan Wind Tunnels, including the replacement of obsolescent controls with a modern, automated distributed control system (DCS). The project effort on this system included an independent safety analysis (ISA) of the automation system. The purpose of the ISA was to evaluate the completeness of the hazard analyses which had already been performed on the Modernization Project. The ISA approach followed a tailoring of the risk assessment approach widely used on existing nuclear power plants. The tailoring of the nuclear industry oriented risk assessment approach to the automation system and its role in reliability-based design of the automation system is the subject of this paper.
Document ID
20010121546
Acquisition Source
Ames Research Center
Document Type
Preprint (Draft being sent to journal)
Authors
Carroll, Carol W.
Dunn, W.
Doty, L.
Frank, M. V.
Hulet, M.
Alvarez, Teresa
Date Acquired
August 20, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1994
Subject Category
Research And Support Facilities (Air)
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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