Risk-based inspection: Development of guidelines
Inservice inspection can play a significant role in minimizing equipment and structural failures. For many industrial applications, requirements for inservice inspection are based upon prior experience or engineering judgment, or are nonexistent. Most requirements or guidelines for these inspections are based on engineers' qualitative judgment, and only implicitly take into account the probability for failure of a component under its operation and loading conditions, and the consequence of such failure, if it occurs. This document recommends appropriate methods for establishing a risk-based inspection program for any facility or structural system. The process involves four major steps: defining the system; performing a qualitative risk assessment; using this to do a quantitative risk analysis; and developing an inspection program for components and structural elements using probabilistic engineering methods.
- Research Organization:
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC (United States). Div. of Engineering; American Society of Mechanical Engineers, New York, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- NRC; Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 5780382
- Report Number(s):
- NUREG/GR-0005-Vol.1; CRTD--Vol.20-1-Vol.1; ON: TI92009666
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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