“Using Latex” is the subject in the RAMS meeting friday 17th of November

November 16th, 2006

Marvin Rausand gives a lecture on how to use Latex, how it is built up, and what the various codes mean. Why should you use Latex; If you attend the meeting tomorrow, You may get some ideas. VG12 from 10:30-11:30.

Guest lecture Friday Nov 10th, 2006 in VG1

November 9th, 2006

Mr. G. Olguin from ABB research department in Sweeden is visting NTNU tomorrow, and will hold a guest lecture in VG1 at 13:15. His topic will be fault tree analysis and its applications.

You are all welcomed to participate.

Next RAMS meeting is the 27th of October

October 20th, 2006

There is no RAMS meeting this week. Next weeks subject is ’Coping with risk in maritime logistics” by Bjørn Egil Asbjørnslett.

(27.10.06 from 10:30 - 11:30)

RAMS meeting friday 15th of September

September 14th, 2006

Tomorrow, Thomas Welte will present parts of his ongoing PhD project. The topic is a discussion about the use of state space models as maintenance model.

Meeting place: VG12 from 10:30 - 11:30.

Reminder - RAMS meeting Friday September 8th

September 7th, 2006

Tomorrow, Ingrid B. Utne will talk about her recent work on “Trade-off analysis of sustainability in the Norwegian cod-fishing fleet”. Time is 10:30 -11:30 in VG12. You are all welcomed to participate.

RAMS-meetings this fall - note new time!

August 28th, 2006

New time for RAMS meetings is every friday from 10:30 - 11:30 in VG12. Subject will be announced a couple of days in advance. This Friday (September 1st ), Jørn Vatn gives an introduction in use of EXCEL for the purpose of risk and probability modelling.

Input to the discussions on safe failure fraction

July 12th, 2006

IEC 61508 and IEC 61511 are standards for design and follow-up of safety instrumented systems relevant for the process industry. For those of you that are familiar with these standards, you may find this paper by Lundteigen and Rausand of interest. The paper was presented at the ESReDA conference in Trondheim June 7-8, 2006 and addresses hardware safety integrity in general, and the issue of safe failure fraction (SFF) in more detail.

Link to paper:
Click here to download the presentation handouts.

Next RAMS meeting August 18th

June 15th, 2006

Since many of our core people are starting their vacations, we now take a summer break until August. I wish you all a nice summer.

Reminder - RAMS meeting Friday June 9th

June 8th, 2006

Friday the 9th, Florent Brissaud will give us a talk about his work related to CARA fault tree tool. Same place and same time as usual; VG 12 from 12-13.

RAMS meeting June 2nd cancelled

June 2nd, 2006

Unfortunately, Snorre Sklet is not able to give his presentation today. Next friday, Florent Brissaud (master student, NTNU) will give a presentation on his work related to CARA event tree/fault tree.