Reliability, Safety and Hazard Assessment for Risk-Based Technologies

Chapter 1: Time Dependent short mode failures in MLCCs due to cracks in the device bodies.- Chapter 2: Local Orbit Bump Control in Indus-2 Using Intelligent Agents Based Control for Enhanced System Operability.- Chapter 3: Reliability Analysis of Smart Pressure Transmitter.- Chapter 4: Accelerated failure time models with corrective and preventive maintenance for repairable systems subject to imperfect repair.- Chapter 5: Reliability Improvement of Single Shot Device.- Chapter 6: Reliability Evaluation of Silicon Carbide (SiC) Boost Converter using Stochastic Model.- Chapter 7: Application of HALT for Standardization in Aerospace Systems: A Case study of Relay Contactors.- Chapter 8: Failure Mode Effect Analysis of Analog Alarm Trip Unit using simulation technique.- Chapter 9: Analytical Modelling of Distributed File Systems (GlusterFS and CephFS).- Chapter 10: Ageing model for electrolytic capacitors under thermal overstress.- Chapter 11: Vulnerability Assessment of Authorization System for USB-based Storage Devices.- Chapter 12: Crypto-Ransomware Detection using Behavioural Analysis.- Chapter 13: Comprehensive Safety Analysis of Station Black Out scenario in TAPS-1 and 2.- Chapter 14: Source-term Prediction during Loss of Coolant Accident in NPP using Artificial Neural Networks.- Chapter 15: Markov probabilistic approach based availability simulation modelling and performance evaluation of coal supply system of thermal power plant.

Prof. Prabhakar V. Varde is an expert in the field of application of reliability and probabilistic risk assessment to nuclear plants and is currently working as Head of the Research Reactor Services Division and Senior Professor at Homi Bhabha National Institute, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India, where he also serves in advisory and administrative capacities in Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB), India, and the Homi Bhabha National Institute, India. He is the Founder and President of the Society for Reliability and Safety (SRESA) and is one of the chief editors for its international journal-Life Cycle Reliability and Safety Engineering. He completed his B.E. (Mech) from Government Engineering College, Rewa, in 1983 and joined BARC, Mumbai, in 1984, where he worked as a Shift Engineer in the Reactor Operations Division until 1995. In 1996, he received his Ph.D. in Reliability Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Mumbai, following which he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, South Korea, and a Visiting Professor at the Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering (CALCE) at the University of Maryland, USA. Professor Varde is also a consultant/specialist/Indian expert for many international organizations, including OECD/NEA (WGRISK), Paris; International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna; University of Maryland, USA; Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, South Korea. Based on his R & D work, he has published over 200 publications in journals and conferences, including 11 conference proceedings books.

Prof. Raghu V. Prakash is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) where he specializes in new product design and the assessment of structural integrity and remaining life prediction of critical components used in transportation and energy sectors. He has more than twenty five years of professional