Reliability Case Notes No. 6. Risk assessment of the Ellsworth probe: development, design and deployment
The Natural Environment Research Council is partly funding the development and deployment of a scientific probe in the Antarctic subglacial Lake Ellsworth. The deployment will take place in 2013. This report aims to quantify the technical risks of the probe development, design and deployment. A high...
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ftnerc:oai:nora.nerc.ac.uk:287347 2023-05-15T13:48:07+02:00 Reliability Case Notes No. 6. Risk assessment of the Ellsworth probe: development, design and deployment Brito, M.P. Griffiths, G. Mowlem, M. Waugh, E. Saw, K. Wyatt, J.B. Tsaloglou, M-N. Fowler, L. Campbell, J. Rundle, N. 2011 application/pdf http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/287347/ https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/287347/1/NOC_R%26C_03.pdf en eng National Oceanography Centre https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/287347/1/NOC_R%26C_03.pdf Brito, M.P.; Griffiths, G.; Mowlem, M.; Waugh, E.; Saw, K.; Wyatt, J.B.; Tsaloglou, M-N.; Fowler, L.; Campbell, J.; Rundle, N. 2011 Reliability Case Notes No. 6. Risk assessment of the Ellsworth probe: development, design and deployment. Southampton, UK, National Oceanography Centre, 40pp. (National Oceanography Centre Research and Consultancy Report 03) Publication - Report NonPeerReviewed 2011 ftnerc 2023-02-04T19:35:49Z The Natural Environment Research Council is partly funding the development and deployment of a scientific probe in the Antarctic subglacial Lake Ellsworth. The deployment will take place in 2013. This report aims to quantify the technical risks of the probe development, design and deployment. A high level representation of the entire probe deployment process is captured in a Markov chain – a form of graphical probabilistic model. The transition from one state, or phase of the deployment, to the next depends on several factors, including: reliability of components and reliability of processes. We use fault trees to quantify the probability of failure of the complex processes that must take place to facilitate the transition from one state to another. The Shelf expert judgment elicitation package was followed to elicit expert judgments for the probability of failure for each failure mode. The top two technical risks are: • Failure to clean Jacket of the hot water drill hose: 95% quantile at 0.96. • Probe electronic failure: 95% quantile at 0.11. Here, the top failure mode is optical connector failure. The Markov chain was used to estimate the availability of the probe from different phases of the deployment. • From on-site probe cleaning: 95% confidence that the probability of success is higher than 0.7. • From on-site testing: 95% confidence that the probability of success is higher than 0.73. • From sheave deployment: 95% confidence that the probability of success if higher than 0.83. • From probe positioning: 95% confidence that the probability of success is higher than 0.90. Finally, the probability of a successful probe deployment following the probe pre-deployment is greater than 0.87, with 95% confidence. Report Antarc* Antarctic Natural Environment Research Council: NERC Open Research Archive Antarctic The Antarctic |
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The Natural Environment Research Council is partly funding the development and deployment of a scientific probe in the Antarctic subglacial Lake Ellsworth. The deployment will take place in 2013. This report aims to quantify the technical risks of the probe development, design and deployment. A high level representation of the entire probe deployment process is captured in a Markov chain – a form of graphical probabilistic model. The transition from one state, or phase of the deployment, to the next depends on several factors, including: reliability of components and reliability of processes. We use fault trees to quantify the probability of failure of the complex processes that must take place to facilitate the transition from one state to another. The Shelf expert judgment elicitation package was followed to elicit expert judgments for the probability of failure for each failure mode. The top two technical risks are: • Failure to clean Jacket of the hot water drill hose: 95% quantile at 0.96. • Probe electronic failure: 95% quantile at 0.11. Here, the top failure mode is optical connector failure. The Markov chain was used to estimate the availability of the probe from different phases of the deployment. • From on-site probe cleaning: 95% confidence that the probability of success is higher than 0.7. • From on-site testing: 95% confidence that the probability of success is higher than 0.73. • From sheave deployment: 95% confidence that the probability of success if higher than 0.83. • From probe positioning: 95% confidence that the probability of success is higher than 0.90. Finally, the probability of a successful probe deployment following the probe pre-deployment is greater than 0.87, with 95% confidence. |
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https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/287347/1/NOC_R%26C_03.pdf Brito, M.P.; Griffiths, G.; Mowlem, M.; Waugh, E.; Saw, K.; Wyatt, J.B.; Tsaloglou, M-N.; Fowler, L.; Campbell, J.; Rundle, N. 2011 Reliability Case Notes No. 6. Risk assessment of the Ellsworth probe: development, design and deployment. Southampton, UK, National Oceanography Centre, 40pp. (National Oceanography Centre Research and Consultancy Report 03) |
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