To give students a thorough knowledge in maintenance techniques, reliability & safety studies.
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.
Classes. Seminars by experts.
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.
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
Ricevimento: Friday 4,00-5,00 p.m. Office 323 DITEN, Via Montallegro 1 16145 Genova Email booking only for foreign students.
MASSIMO FIGARI (President)
RAPHAEL ZACCONE (President)
SILVIA DONNARUMMA
BRUNO SPANGHERO
MICHELE MARTELLI (President Substitute)
First Semester (autumn)
RELIABILITY AND SAFETY OF MARINE PLANTS
Written and oral exam. Problem solving (written). Theoretical aspects (oral). Discussion on student's homeworks.
Homework 10%. Exam 90%.
