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MANE 4360 - Reactor Reliability and Safety


Theory and applications of reliability and risk assessment.  Boolean algebra, logic diagrams, redudancy and majority-vote configurations.  System synthesis by reliability and fault tree techniques, quantitative evaluation, uncertainty analysis.  Common cause events, failure data, and failure models.  Allocation of risk to subsystems.  Availability, repair policies, renewal theory.  Operational reliability methods.

Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ENGR-2600 Modeling and Analysis of Uncertainty and MANE-4400 Nuclear Power Systems Engineering or permission of the instuctor.

When Offered: Fall term annually



Cross Listed: MANE 6360 Reactor Reliability and Safety. Students cannot obtain credit for both this course and the cross-listed course.

Credit Hours: 3



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