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