Reliability and availability assessment of electrical and mechanical systems
Ensuring reliable electric power to critical equipment is vital to the operation of many industrial, commercial, and military facilities. Accurate assessments of electrical system reliability are needed to determine if improvements are necessary and, in many cases, these assessments are required as a part of any new construction. However, it is generally impossible to perform actual testing on the system and hand calculations are also impossible for all but the most trivial systems. There are computer modelling tools which calculate system reliability or availability for electrical or mechanical systems based on the reliability of individual components, how those components are interconnected, and performance criteria for the system based on facility requirements. Other computer modeling tools are frequently cumbersome to use, require access to a mainframe computer, and base the results on suspect data compiled in the 1970`s. The Reliability and Availability Modeling Program (RAMP) is designed to perform reliability analysis using component operational and maintenance data on 242 items in the categories of power generation, power distribution, and HVAC.
- OSTI ID:
- 427924
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9510203-; TRN: IM9708%%251
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: IEEE/Industrial Application Society conference, Orlando, FL (United States), 8-12 Oct 1995; Other Information: PBD: 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of Conference record of the 1995 IEEE Industry Applications Society 30. IAS annual meeting. Volume 3; PB: 961 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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