Achieving High Reliability and. Survivability for Greenhouse Gases ... Organization. GOSAT is the joint project of JAXA, MOE (Ministry of the ...

This viewgraph presentation reviews operational reliability and its role in achieving high reliability through design and process reliability. The topics include: (1) Reliability Engineering Major Areas and interfaces; (2) Design Reliability; (3) ...

Perinatal high reliability is achievable with principles of high reliability organizations. Key organizational, leadership, and clinical characteristics that are essential for developing and sustaining a highly reliable perinatal unit are presented. ...

governing variables to achieve high reliability in the Stirling Radioisotope ..... approach would be to perform accelerated life testing at elevated ...

of {\\em watchd} to do software rejuvenation by stopping and restarting a process at a certain intervalLyu - Software Reliability 1 Oct. 10, 1997 An Integrated Approach to Achieving High Software, and evaluation schemes for software reliability, and the integration of these schemes into a unified

Paper about the importance of continued progress toward low-cost, high-reliability, and high-performance PV systems. High reliability is an essential element in achieving low-cost solar electricity.

Presentation about the importance of continued progress toward low-cost, high-reliability, and high-performance PV systems. High reliability is an essential element in achieving low-cost solar electricity.

OTPROMs (one-time programmable ROMs) have achieved a high level of reliability as the result of technical developments including stress-relieving techniques in molded resin, miniaturization of the filler size, achieving a flat surface in the wafer process...

... 8. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION REPORT NUMBER ... High assembly yields (> 90%) can be achieved ... Bond wire reliability not an issue; Missed ...

An error control coding scheme was devised to achieve large coding gain and high reliability by using coded modulation with reduced decoding complexity. To achieve a 3 to 5 dB coding gain and moderate reliability, the decoding complexity is quite modest. ...

Percussion primer are used to ignite fixed ammunition propellant charges with a very high functional reliability. In order to achieve this high degree of reliability, extremely sensitive primary explosive compositions are selected as the initiating materi...

Percussion primers are used to ignite fixed ammunition propellant charges with a very high functional reliability. In order to achieve this high degree of reliability, extremely sensitive primary explosive compositions are selected as the initiating mater...

Power transformers at hydroelectric plants can achieve very high reliability and availability. But, to ensure this level of performance, extensive factory and field testing is a must.

The need to achieve higher performance and more compact component designs today make it necessary to enhance the durability and reliability of the drivetrain and other parts requiring high strength and wear resistance. Supercarburized steel is thought to ...

The development of aeronautical and space propulsion systems structures technology is the mission of the Structures Division. The technology required to achieve reliable, high-performance, lightweight structures needed for aerospace propulsion is among th...

... "i 3. A Vt.IF .1 - - Within the present state of the art inertial instruments can achieve high reliability for long periods of time only by redundancy. ...

Nested concatenated coded 8-phase shift keying (PSK) modulation schemes are proposed to achieve good

Reliable injection locking of high-power unstable resonator excimer lasers can be achieved with extremely low reference oscillator power. The criteria for injection locking are discussed and experimental results are given.

Increasing complexity and shrinking sizes of integrated circuits necessitate the development of new materials and processes to meet current system requirements of high performance and reliability in smaller electronic assemblies. In order to achieve the s...

ORBITEC proposes to develop a unique Advanced Vortex Hybrid Rocket Engine (AVHRE) to achieve a safe, highly-reliable, low-cost and uniquely versatile ...

As part of the United States National Photovoltaics Program, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Flat-Plate Solar Array Project (FSA) has maintained a comprehensive reliability and engineering sciences activity addressed toward understanding the reliability attributes of terrestrial flat-plate photovoltaic arrays and to deriving analysis and design tools ...

In the future, aircraft must employ highly reliable multiprocessors in order to achieve flight safety. Such computers must be experimentally validated before they are deployed. This project outlines a methodology for validating reliable multiprocessors. T...

The reliability achieved by military electronic systems and equipments is highly dependent upon the proper selection and application of the electrical and electronics parts used therein. Chapter I of this document provides requirements for three basic ele...

A key requirement for achieving high yield multichip modules (MCM's) is assuring that the individual dice are known good devices (KGD). A KGD is defined as a bare die available at the same quality and reliability as the equivalent single chip packaged par...

Achieving Reliability through Replication in a Wide-Area Network DHT Storage System Jing Zhao-area distributed hash table (DHT) which provides a storage ser- vice with high reliability. Many existing systems result better than epidemic algorithms, we have also implemented and deployed a DHT system us- ing

... The goal of this investigation was to ... Carrier Requirement (MMBHMF) Achievement (MMBHMF) ... 5. HMMWV Reliability Requirements/Achievements ...

management. Therefore, organizations are faced with two challenges of providing high reliability and reducing it has been written and verified. These approaches can achieve at least as high a reliability in a typ- ical workstation in an enterprise environment where both ...

This three-volume report presents the results of Phase II of the multiphase EPRI-sponsored High-Reliability Gas Turbine Combined-Cycle Development Program whose goal is to achieve a highly reliable gas turbine combined-cycle power plant, available by the ...

Leadership, culture of safety, robust process improvement are key elements of creating high reliability, experts say. High level of safety must be maintained over a long period of time over all of the facility's services. New methods of calculation are required to accurately measure the level of reliability that ...

This three-volume report presents the results of Phase II of the multiphase EPRI-sponsored High-Reliability Gas Turbine Combined-Cycle Development Program whose goal is to achieve a highly reliable gas turbine combined-cycle power plant, available by the ...

Efforts to improve the quality of education in the United States increasingly emphasize the need for high-stakes achievement testing. The availability of valid, reliable, and cost-effective measures of achievement is critical to the success of many reform...

The achievement of higher efficiency heat engines and heat recovery systems requires the availability of high temperature, high performance structural materials. Structural ceramics, and more recently, ceramic matrix composites have received particular at...

The use of the lithium/sulfur dioxide system for aerospace applications is discussed. The high rate density in the system is compared to some primary systems: mercury zinc, silver zinc, and magnesium oxide. Estimates are provided of the storage life and shelf life of typical lithium sulfur batteries. The design of lithium cells is presented and criteria are given for improving ...

Most reliability references place heavy emphasis on the mathematics of measuring reliability and relatively little emphasis on the actions which contribute to a product's reliability. This booklet emphasizes how reliability is achieved during the military...

Expendable launch vehicles (ELVs) have been used since the early 1960s to put numerous payloads, including humans, into space. Yet, in spite of their widespread use since that time, ELV reliability has not improved much. Why has this been the case? And, more importantly, what might be done to substantially improve the reliability of future reusable launch ...

A new cyclone bypass is adopted to prevent collision of dusts and water splash to the sensing element. Poly silicon heater and temperature sensor are used to obtain corrosion resistance and acidity-proof of the sensing element. The signal conditioning LSI compensates sensor characteristic by calculate 3rd order polynomial expression. Micro airflow sensor for automobile with ...

The UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) is conducting a high-level campaign to secure improved levels of reliability and maintainability in new weapons and equipment. As part of this campaign, emphasis is being placed not only on the front-end specification and design activities, but also on the methods of assurance. The use of an in-service ...

The materials and processing costs of the cathode for the high rate primary battery were investigated to achieve an effective cost reduction while still maintaining performance and reliability. Concurrent with this investigation, development of both paste...

One effort to achieve high speed data networks is parallel media access control. In order to understand the behavior of several factors affecting the behavior of the system, a general purpose media access simulator was developed. The results were encourag...

high-sulfur Eastern U.S. coal in an environmentally achieve high reliability and efficiency. The total attractive manner. ... an implementation schedule; and to estimate capital ... known coal reserves are greater than those of any ...

The maritime oil shipping industry has great public demands for safe and reliable organizational performance. Researchers have identified a set of organizations and industries that operate at extremely high levels of reliability, and have labelled them High Reliability Organizations (HRO). ...

We analyze factors due to which damage occurred in the first period of operation in the 12Kh18N1 austenitic-steel tube system of the delivery-water heater used as part of a T-180/210-130 turbine unit operating in a couple with a high-pressure drum boiler. Technical solutions undertaken for achieving reliable operation of the heater are ...

Reliability and maintainability engineering has long been an integral part of the design and development of high technology projects in the aerospace, military, electronics and other allied fields. Experience has resulted in the development of specialist techniques and has shown where such techniques should be applied during development programmes for the ...

Large accelerators for high energy physics research traditionally have been designed using informal best design, engineering, and management practices to achieve acceptable levels of operational availability. However, the Next Linear Collider(NLC) project presents a particular challenge for operational availability due to the unprecedented size and ...

The Evaluation and Improvement of NDE Reliability for Inservice Inspection of Light Water Reactors (NDE Reliability) Program at the Pacific Northwest Laboratory was established by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to determine the reliability of current inservice inspection (ISI) techniques and to develop recommendations that will ...

The authors describe a reform effort in which characteristics derived from High Reliability Organization research were used to shape whole school reform. Longitudinal analyses of outcome data from 12 Welsh secondary schools indicated that 4 years after the effort was initiated, student outcomes at the sites were strongly positive. Additional quantitative ...

Improved design techniques are needed to achieve high reliability at minimum cost. This is especially true of space systems where lifetimes of many years without maintenance are needed and severe mass limitations exist. Reliability must be designed into these systems from the start. Techniques are now being ...

An error control coding scheme was devised to achieve large coding gain and high reliability by using coded modulation with reduced decoding complexity. To achieve a 3 to 5 dB coding gain and moderate reliability, the decoding complexity is quite modest. In fact, to achieve ...

Healthcare is not a high-reliability industry. The adverse event rate is on the order of 10(-2); industries such as aviation, nuclear power and railways achieve rates of 10(-5) or better. Increasing awareness of this contrast has made "patient safety" a major topic of concern. High reliability in other industries ...

... System Component Reliability in the Life Cycle. ... use of highly reliable parts, materials, and processes. Reliable parts, materials, and process are the ...

The Gulf war illustrated the effectiveness of Naval helicopters, as well as the impact of reliability on rapidly fitted new equipment. Poor reliability can lead to reduced effectiveness, inadequate spares, high cost, and increased risk to human life. Only limited improvements can be achieved in service so the ...

), and golden test patterns (deliv- ered by the core provider) jointly achieve high and flexible fault coverage the test application time, and achieving the maximum level of test quality control by core users such that the goals of netlist protection and fault coverage analysis can be achieved. The idea of test ...

A failure modes study was the basis for establishing the protection system requirements and for identifying possible design alternatives or options that may be considered. Components of the protection system are discussed with respect to the redundancy and monitoring needed to assure high reliability, as measured by the probability that the system will ...

Wireless military information systems require high reliability, which is difficult to achieve in adverse conditions. To provide high reliability one must overcome packet loss across multiple wireless hops. Buffering packets in a lossy environment is well ...

State of the art miniature expansion turbines and centrifugal compressors used in spaceborne sensor cryocoolers employ self-acting gas bearings to achieve high reliability and long operating life. Because these bearings must run at room temperature to ach...

The goals in Reclamation are to achieve the high degree of knowledge and proficiency needed to: Improve techniques for more efficient water management, conservation, salvage, and reuse throughout the hydrologic cycle; Improve the reliability and efficienc...

Optimum repair and overhaul of the high-precision, quiet-running motors in submarine service, to achieve satisfactory performance and reliability, require adequate technical information, tools, and facilities. It is proposed that the Electrical Repair Sho...

The goal of this research was to investigate the potential for employing dynamic, decentralized software architectures to achieve reliability in future high-performance computing platforms. These architectures, inspired by peer-to-peer networks such as bo...

IMPORTANCE OF THERMAL-VACUUM TESTING IN ACHIEVING HIGH RELIABILITY OF SPACE- ...... Osborne, B. D.; Lockheed Missiles & Space Company; SOLAR CELL GRAVITY- ...... AMS, NA~A CP-2080, Hela at NASA Ames Research Center, CA; Session III, ...

In order to optimize helicopter operational readiness a Joint Advanced Health and Usage Management System (JAHUMS) for helicopter must be highly reliable, minimize false alarms, and prevent catastrophic failures, while operating in real time. To achieve t...

Research with Mark II and Mark III continued with both accelerators operating reliably. The colliding beams experiment achieved a major break through in that wide angle electron-electron scattering events were observed with a high signal to background rat...

Synthetic chemists have always had an objective to achieve reliable and high-yielding routes to the syntheses of targeted molecules. The importance of minimal waste generation has emphasized the use of green chemistry principles and sustainable development. These directions lead ...

In the future, aircraft employing active control technology must use highly reliable multiprocessors in order to achieve flight safety. Such computers must be experimentally validated before they are deployed. This project outlines a methodology for doing...

There is evidence that the reliability of magnetic bearings has achieved an acceptable level in applications when high cost can be tolerated. This acceptability would be enhanced if the inherent capability of magnetic bearings as active control elements w...

Inductive energy transfer between two magnets can be achieved with almost 100% efficiency with a transfer capacitor. However, the bulk and cost will be high, and reliability low if conventional capacitors are used. A homopolar machine, used as a capacitor...

Due to the application of relatively large ball bearings, which are only loaded to about 1% of their dynamic load carrying capability, long life and high reliability can be achieved. The bearings are able to withstand severe launch loads without a load re...

Failure reporting and analysis is a principal element of the overall quality assurance scheme that helped achieve, and now sustains, a high level of reliability in our national aerospace effort. The aerospace endeavor has many points of congruence with ot...

When organizations operate technologies that are beneficial, costly and hazardous, they are pressed to achieve failure free operations. This is an extraordinary situation, one deemed impossible in contemporary organization theoretic terms. This project ex...

An advanced Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) system has the potential for efficiently and reliably providing high resolution images for inspecting concrete civil structures for defects and damage assessment. To achieve the required performance, improvements...

Control of the living cell functions with remarkable reliability despite the stochastic nature of the underlying molecular networks�a property presumably optimized by biological evolution. We ask here to what extent the ability of a stochastic dynamical network to produce reliable dynamics is an evolvable trait. Using an evolutionary algorithm based on a ...

Organizations are increasingly becoming dynamic and unstable. This evolution has given rise to greater reliance on teams and increased complexity in terms of team composition, skills required, and degree of risk involved. High-reliability organizations (HROs) are those that exist in such hazardous environments where the consequences of errors are high, but ...

Circuit, packaging, component and material design techniques are presented for achieving extremely high reliability in high voltage (10 to 30 kV) aerospace power systems. Particular consideration is given to aspects of (1) corona minimization, (2) corona immunization, (3) arc proofing, (4) component and material ...

We describe an improved high intensity, recycling, supersonic atomic beam source. Changes address several issues previously limiting performance and reliability of the apparatus, including the use of newly available vacuum pumps and modifications to the recycling system. We achieve a source intensity of 2.5 x 10(19) atoms/s/sr, almost ...

SF6 gas is applied widely to medium voltage switchgear because of its high insulation reliability and down-sizing ability. However, SF6 gas was placed on the list of greenhouse gases under the Kyoto Protocol in 1997. Since then, the investigation and development concerning SF6-free or less has carried out activity. Therefore, we paid attention to the solid ...

By starting with established and flown hardware (high Technology Readiness Level (TRL)), and implementing a concurrent engineering environment and seamless team, a mission architect can achieve high reliability and high performance while operating under constrained cost and short implementation ...

... Title : POWER DISTRIBUTION FOR HIGH-RELIABILITY QUADRUPLE- DIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS. Corporate ...

... HIGH RELIABILITY HIGH VOLTAGE POWER PROCESSORS. ... OUTPUT VOLTAGES UP TO 20 ... TO OBTAIN ULTRA-HIGH RELIABILITY SYSTEMS. ...

Flawless execution rests in the hands of nurse managers. No one can work alone in health care any more. We are interdependent and know that the best outcomes happen when practices are organized around collegial supportive structures rather than autonomous competitive units. We are only as strong as our weakest link. If all managers see the big picture and look beyond their units for what is right ...

An account is given of the British Army's approach to the achievement of high reliability and maintainability in rotorcraft during the procurement process. Attention is given to experience accumulated to date with the Gazelle, Scout, Agusta A109A, and Lynx helicopters; these offer lessons with respect to the Gem engine, fuel filtering, ...

Final report of our DOE funded research program. Aim of the research program was to provide a fundamental basis from which the mechanical reliability of layered structures may be understood, and to provide guidelines for the development of technologically relevant layered material structures with optimum resistance to fracture and subcritical debonding. Progress in the ...

In a majority of modern boiler units, control of live steam temperature is achieved using a simple economic method of spraying feed water. In the P-57-1 boiler of unit No. 9 of the Troitsk GRES, sprayer No. 3 is positioned before the output stage of the high pressure convective steam and is designed for control of the superheating temperature of the live ...

The objective of this program was to seek improved process control and weldment reliability during laser welding of automotive aluminum alloys while retaining the high speed and accuracy of the laser beam welding process. The effects of various welding variables on the loss of alloying elements and the formation of porosity and other geometric weld defects ...

The continued exponential growth of photovoltaic technologies paves a path to a solar-powered world, but requires continued progress toward low-cost, high-reliability, and high-performance PV systems. High reliability is an essential element in achieving low-cost solar electricity by reducing ...

Dec 12, 2007 ... Reliability and Maintainability Engineering forms an essential part of achieving safe and successful missions. ...

... is applicable to integrated systems that achieve ... competing functions on system reliability. ... Completion Success Probability, and Failure Resiliency. ...

In this paper, the preliminary design of a space mission is approached by introducing uncertainties on the design parameters and formulating the resulting reliable design problem as a multiobjective optimization problem. Uncertainties are modelled through evidence theory and the belief, or credibility, that the successful achievement of mission goals is ...

& Secretary of the Department of Atomic Energy), received the first ever "Lifetime Reliability Achievement Awards" from the Indian Society of Reliability, Maintainability and...

A synchronously pumped cavity-dumped mode-locked cw dye laser using a ring cavity configuration is reported. High intracavity intensities and reliable mode locking are achieved when the ring laser is operated in a unidirectional traveling-wave mode using an intracavity Faraday rotator. The experiment points up the importance of ...

The goal of the project is to enable plant operators to detect with high sensitivity and reliability the onset of decalibration drifts in all of the instrumentation used as input to the reactor heat balance calculations. To achieve this objective, the collaborators developed and implemented at DBNPS an extension of the Multivariate ...

Results achieved on the reliability and safety of power systems are documented. Approaches to reliability and safety analysis were investigated and compared with regard to their applicability. On the basis of these investigations, two computer programs we...

Describes philosophy and function of specifications in relation to achievement of reliability assurance, general and detailed specifications, environment, interferences, interactions and interfaces affecting system performance requirements.

RELIABILITY. PRACTICES. PRACTICE NO. PT-TE-1438. PAGE 1 OF 5 ... testing), and fail-safe designs to achieve reliability in launch vehicle command destruct ...

The mission of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) "is to improve the reliability and security of the bulk power system in North America. To achieve that, NERC develops and ... ...

Wormhole routing networks are emerging as an effective solution for high bandwidth, low latency interconnects in distributed computing and cluster computing applications. An important example (in the local area environment) is the 640 Mb/s crossbar-based Myrinet. A key property of conventional LANs, which is valuable for many distributed applications, is transparent, ...

Academic and professional disciplines, such as organisation and management theory, psychology, sociology and engineering, have, for years, grappled with the multidisciplinary issues of safety and accident prevention. However, these ideas are just beginning to enrich research on safety in medicine. This article examines a domain of research on system safety - the High ...

Adoption of heat pump water heating technology for commercial hot water could save up to 0.4 quads of energy and 5 million metric tons of CO2 production annually in North America, but industry perception is that this technology does not offer adequate performance or reliability and comes at too high of a cost. Development and demonstration of a CO2 heat ...

This paper describes how various technologies are used to achieve the desired performance in a high current magnet power converter system. It is hoped that the discussions of the design approaches taken will be applicable to other power supply systems where stringent requirements in stability, accuracy and reliability must be met.

CCDs are described and the system impact of CCDs is reviewed in terms of low cost, high performance, and ease of maintenance and application. Particular attention is given to the Intel 2464 CCD which achieves densities of 64 kbits of memory on a single die. CCDs are compared to magnetic bubble memories with respect to a variety of cost and performance ...

... Accession Number : AD0743745. Title : Reliability Approximations for Complex Coherent Systems with Highly Reliable Components. ...

Reiss ("The normal personality: a new way of thinking about people." Cambridge University Press, New York, 2008) empirically derived a reliable and valid taxonomy of 16 life motives ("psychological needs"). The model suggests six motivational reasons for low achievement in school. Low achievement may be motivated by fear of failure ...

S>An inline densimeter was fabricated and tested in the laboratory. When operated in a range of 1.000 to 1.200 g/cc, an accuracy of plus or minus 0.2% in the mid-point of the range was easily achieved. The instrument also measures pulse amplitude and pulse frequency when used on a pulsating flow. A long life with high ...

The exceptional performance of Experimental Breeder Reactor-II (EBR-II) metallic driver fuel has been demonstrated by the irradiation of a large number of elements under steady-state, transient overpower, and loss-of-flow conditions. High burnup with high reliability has been achieved by a close coupling of element ...

The encapsulation of high-purity germnium detectors is very desirable in order to increase their versatility and reliability. However, rapid and extensive degradation is seen for all detectors made from detector grade crystals which are encapsulated in a simple vacuum. Extensive studies have shown that the cause of this degradation is hydrogen ...

A plasma-electrode Pockels cell (PEPC) has been developed for use on the OMEGA extended performance (EP) laser system that can be used in a high-contrast optical switch, as required for isolation of the system from retroreflected pulses. Contrast ratios reliably exceeded 500:1 locally everywhere in the clear aperture. The key to ...

A plasma-electrode Pockels cell (PEPC) has been developed for use on the OMEGA extended performance (EP)laser system that can be used in a high-contrast optical switch, as required for isolation of the system from retroreflected pulses. Contrast ratios reliably exceeded 500:1 locally everywhere in the clear aperture. The key to ...

A plasma-electrode Pockels cell (PEPC) has been developed for use on the OMEGA extended performance (EP) laser system that can be used in a high-contrast optical switch, as required for isolation of the system from retroreflected pulses. Contrast ratios reliably exceeded 500:1 locally everywhere in the clear aperture. The key to ...

The Fermilab Tevatron has been, until 2010, the premier high-energy physics collider in the world. The data collected over the last decade by high-energy physics experiments running at the Tevatron have been analyzed to make important measurements in fundamental areas such as B meson masses and flavor oscillation, searches for the Higgs boson, and ...

The Integrated Design Methodology is strongly required at the conceptual design phase to achieve the highly reliable space transportation systems, especially the propulsion systems, not only in Japan but also all over the world in these days. Because in the past some catastrophic failures caused some losses of mission and vehicle ...

Software for safety-critical systems, such as nuclear power plant control systems; avionic systems; and medical, defense, and manufacturing systems, must be highly reliable because failures can have catastrophic consequences. While existing methods, such as formal techniques, testing, and fault-tolerant software, can significantly enhance software ...

Robust mobile robot localization requires the availability of highly reliable features obtained by the external sensors of the robot. Redundancy assures reliability and precision of the observed features. In this work we use two different sensors, namely, a laser rangefinder and a monocular vision system, whose complementary nature ...

... Descriptors : *OPTICAL CIRCUITS, *RELIABILITY(ELECTRONICS), PHOTONS, HIGH VELOCITY, INPUT OUTPUT DEVICES. ...

... Title : THERMIONIC REACTOR RELIABILITY,. ... in series as in parallel, which conveniently coincides with the advantage of high voltage production. ...

The results of a program undertaken to conceptually design and evaluate a passive, high reliability,

To investigate the reliability and feasibility of six potential workplace-based assessment methods in general practice training: criterion audit, multi-source feedback from clinical and non-clinical colleagues, patient feedback (the CARE Measure), referral letters, significant event analysis, and video analysis of consultations. Performance of GP registrars (trainees) was ...

To investigate the reliability and feasibility of six potential workplace-based assessment methods in general practice training: criterion audit, multi-source feedback from clinical and non-clinical colleagues, patient feedback (the CARE Measure), referral letters, significant event analysis, and video analysis of consultations. Performance of GP registrars (trainees) was ...

The Maintenance Department at the La Silla - Paranal Observatory has been an important base to keep the operations of the observatory at a good level of reliability and availability. Several strategies have been implemented and improved in order to cover these requirements and keep the system and equipment working properly when it is required. For that reason, one of the ...