Failure Mode Analysis for a Hazardous Waste Clean-up Manipulator

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dc.citation.firstpage277
dc.citation.issueNumber3en_US
dc.citation.journalTitleReliability Engineering and System Safetyen_US
dc.citation.lastpage290
dc.citation.volumeNumber53en_US
dc.contributor.authorWalker, Ian D.
dc.contributor.authorCavallaro, Joseph R.
dc.contributor.orgCenter for Multimedia Communicationen_US
dc.date.accessioned2012-05-30T17:50:23Z
dc.date.available2012-05-30T17:50:23Z
dc.date.issued1996-05-01eng
dc.description.abstractThis 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.sponsorshipSandia National Laboratoryen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipNational Science Foundationen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipNASAen_US
dc.identifier.citationI. 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.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0951-8320(96)00055-5en_US
dc.identifier.issn10.1016/S0951-8320(96)00055-5
dc.identifier.otherhttp://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=6396266628643171790&hl=en&as_sdt=0,44
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/64194
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisherElsevier Science Limiteden_US
dc.subjectFault tree analysisen_US
dc.subjectRobot manipulatorsen_US
dc.subjectReliabilityen_US
dc.subjectRoboticsen_US
dc.titleFailure Mode Analysis for a Hazardous Waste Clean-up Manipulatoren_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
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