AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

To give students a thorough knowledge in maintenance techniques, reliability & safety studies.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The student will possess the scientific and professional knowledge that make him/her employable in operations that relate to the design, the construction and the management of ship plants by using reliability & safety techniques.

TEACHING METHODS

Classes. Seminars by experts.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Basics of RAMS (Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, Safety) methodologies and their application to marine systems.

The lectures will include main definitions of RAMS parameters, basic computation techniques, applications to components, applications to simple systems, application to the whole ship.

Markov chains for availability and reliability evaluation.

Risk Analysis techniques (FMEA, Fault Tree).

Rules and International Conventions concerning Ship Safety.

Application of the techniques for the design and operation of marine systems.

Learning from marine accidents.

Maintenance techniques and maintenance management of ship systems.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Course notes in English posted on aulaweb.

A. Castellani, Teoria dell’Affidabilità, Pearson Prentice Hall, http://hpe.pearson.it/castellani

J. Wang, V. Trbojevic, Design for Safety of Marine and Offshore Systems, IMAREST, http://www.imarest.org

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

MASSIMO FIGARI (President)

RAPHAEL ZACCONE (President)

SILVIA DONNARUMMA

BRUNO SPANGHERO

MICHELE MARTELLI (President Substitute)

LESSONS

LESSONS START

First Semester (autumn)

Class schedule

RELIABILITY AND SAFETY OF MARINE PLANTS

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Written and oral exam. Problem solving (written). Theoretical aspects (oral). Discussion on student's homeworks.

ASSESSMENT METHODS

Homework 10%. Exam 90%.

Exam schedule