Risk and decision analysis in maintenance optimization and flood management

✍ Scribed by Kallen M.J., Kuniewski S.P. (eds.)

• Publisher: IOS
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 183
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The late professor J.M. Van Noortwijk (1961-2008) worked to bridge the practice of mathematical modeling with solving complex problems in the field of civil engineering. He developed advanced probabilistic and statistical models and made these accessible to engineers working in such areas as structural reliability, hydraulic engineering and maintenance optimization. This book contains an overview of his work and a collection of twelve papers presented at the symposium held in his honor on the 24th of November, 2009, in Delft, the Netherlands. The topics covered by these contributions include the elicitation of experts opinion, condition-based maintenance optimization using the gamma process, and the assessment and management of flood risks. They present the latest developments by his peers in their respective fields.IOS Press is an international science, technical and medical publisher of high-quality books for academics, scientists, and professionals in all fields. Some of the areas we publish in: -Biomedicine -Oncology -Artificial intelligence -Databases and information systems -Maritime engineering -Nanotechnology -Geoengineering -All aspects of physics -E-governance -E-commerce -The knowledge economy -Urban studies -Arms control -Understanding and responding to terrorism -Medical informatics -Computer Sciences

✦ Table of Contents

Title page......Page 2
Table of Contents......Page 8
The work of professor Jan van Noortwijk (1961–2008): an overview......Page 12
On some elicitation procedures for distributions with bounded support – with applications in PERT......Page 32
Finding proper non-informative priors for regression coefficients......Page 46
Posterior predictions on river discharges......Page 54
The lessons of New Orleans......Page 68
Relative material loss: a maintenance inspection methodology for approximating material loss on in-service marine structures......Page 82
Nonparametric predictive system reliability with all subsystems consisting of one type of component......Page 96
Multi-criteria optimization of life-cycle performance of structural systems under uncertainty......Page 110
Model based control at WWTP Westpoort......Page 124
Modelling track geometry by a bivariate Gamma wear process, with application to maintenance......Page 134
An adaptive condition-based maintenance policy with environmental factors......Page 148
Derivation of a finite time expected cost model for a condition-based maintenance program......Page 160
A discussion about historical developments in stochastic modeling of wear......Page 170