Management of Dependent Failures

摘要：

　　Dependent failures are typical causes of severe accidents.Section 2 describes four types of dependencies:1)functional,2) human-interaction,3) spatial,and 4) component hardware failure.These types are not mutually exclusive but four overlapping facets of dependent failures,inspiring human creative thinking for safety.Section 3 focuses on failures caused by similarities,i.e.,common-cause failures.Typical similarities are exemplified as coupling mechanisms.Section 4 gives provisions for each type of dependenies.The Fukushima nuclear power plants accident is a manifestation of dependent failures caused by a mechanism called spatial dependency that should have been corrected from a PRA (probabilistic risk assessment) pointed of view.

关键词： Dependent failure Coupling mechanism Common cause failures Spatial similarity Fukushima accident

作者: Hiromitsu KUMAMOTO

作者单位: Kyoto University,Kyoto 606-8501 Japan

会议类型: 国内会议

会议名称: 2012(沈阳)国际安全科学与技术学术研讨会

会议地点: 沈阳

会议语种:英文

页码: 1-6

在线出版日期: 2012-11-11（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）