Nowadays, Dynamically Positioned (DP) units are responsible for most offshore oil exploitation operations, including drilling and maintenance campaigns. Due to the large congestion of the oil fields, keeping the vessel ...

The contributions cover a wide range of methodologies and application areas for safety and reliability that contribute to safe societies in a changing world. These methodologies and applications include: - foundations of ...

Reliability analysis of power systems has been attracting increasing attention. Regulatory agencies establish reliability standards that, if infringed, result in costly fines for the utility suppliers. A special concern ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a new method to estimate the reliability of series system by using copula functions. This problem is of great interest in industrial and engineering applications. ...