Failure Mode Analysis for a Hazardous Waste Clean-up Manipulator
dc.citation.firstpage | 277 | |
dc.citation.issueNumber | 3 | en_US |
dc.citation.journalTitle | Reliability Engineering and System Safety | en_US |
dc.citation.lastpage | 290 | |
dc.citation.volumeNumber | 53 | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Walker, Ian D. | |
dc.contributor.author | Cavallaro, Joseph R. | |
dc.contributor.org | Center for Multimedia Communication | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-05-30T17:50:23Z | |
dc.date.available | 2012-05-30T17:50:23Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1996-05-01 | eng |
dc.description.abstract | This paper describes the application of Fault Tree Analysis to the design phase of a robot manipulator for hazardous waste retrieval. The robot is to be deployed in single-shell under-ground storage tanks at the US Department of Energy (DOE) site in Hanford, Washington. These tanks contain a variety of highly radioactive waste types, necessitating extremely safe and reliable manipulator operation. Based on preliminary design drawings of this long-reach manipulator, fault trees were constructed for several critical failure scenarios. Analysis of the trees revealed a number of ways to improve the safety and reliability of the manipulator design. This paper presents a summary of the fault tree analysis, with a discussion of the applicability of qualitative and quantitative fault tree methods to hazardous waste robotics. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | Sandia National Laboratory | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | National Science Foundation | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | NASA | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | I. D. Walker and J. R. Cavallaro, "Failure Mode Analysis for a Hazardous Waste Clean-up Manipulator," <i>Reliability Engineering and System Safety,</i> vol. 53, no. 3, 1996. | * |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0951-8320(96)00055-5 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 10.1016/S0951-8320(96)00055-5 | |
dc.identifier.other | http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=6396266628643171790&hl=en&as_sdt=0,44 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1911/64194 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | en |
dc.publisher | Elsevier Science Limited | en_US |
dc.subject | Fault tree analysis | en_US |
dc.subject | Robot manipulators | en_US |
dc.subject | Reliability | en_US |
dc.subject | Robotics | en_US |
dc.title | Failure Mode Analysis for a Hazardous Waste Clean-up Manipulator | en_US |
dc.type | Journal article | en_US |
dc.type.dcmi | Text | en |
dc.type.dcmi | Text | en_US |