RELIABILITY ENGINEERING AND SYSTEM SAFETY

Reliability Engineering and System Safety is an international
journal devoted to the development and application of methods
for the enhancement of the safety and reliability of complex
technological systems, like nuclear power plants, chemical plants,
hazardous waste facilities, space systems, offshore and maritime
systems, transportation systems, constructed infrastructure and
manufacturing plants. The journal normally publishes only articles
that involve the analysis of substantive problems related to
the reliability of complex systems or present techniques and/or
theoretical results that have a discernable relationship to the
solution of such problems. An important aim is to achieve a balance
between academic material and practical applications.
The following topics are within the scope of the journal: methods
for reliability and probabilistic safety assessment; model and
parameter uncertainties; aleatory and epistemic uncertainties,
sensitivity analysis, data collection and analysis; engineering
judgement and expert opinions; human reliability; test and
maintenance policies; models for ageing and life extension;
systems analysis of the impact of earthquakes, fires, tornadoes,
winds, floods, etc.; codes, standards and safety criteria; operator
decision support systems; software reliability; methods and
applications of automatic fault detection and diagnosis; dynamic
reliability; design and evaluation of man machine systems and
human interfaces; design innovation for safety and reliability;
safety culture; accident investigation and management. The
journal does not normally publish articles that involve fuzzy
sets and related non-probabilistic methods unless they contribute
significantly to the solution of substantive problems related to the
analysis of real systems.
The journal will contain contributed material in the form of original
research papers, review articles, industrial case studies, safety
recommendations, and short communications.

Editor-in-Chief
PAOLO GARDONI
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Champaign, Illinois,
United States
E-mail: gardoni@illinois.edu

Founding Editor Past Editor in Chief

F. R. FARMER1 CARLOS GUEDES SOARES

Associate Editors:
GREGORY LEVITIN
The Israel Electric Corporation, Israel
MIN XIE
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
MARKO CEPIN
University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Editorial Board
Tunc Aldemir James H. Lambert Luca Podofillini
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA Paul Scherrer Institut, OHSA/D20,CH-5232 Villigen PSI
John Andrews Helge Langseth Antoine B. Rauzy
University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England, UK Norwegian University of Science and Technology Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Terje Aven Bernt Leira
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Claudio Rocco
University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway
Trondheim, Norway Universidad Central de Venezuela
Tim Bedford
Strathclyde University, Glasgow, Scotland Nancy Leveson Philip Scarf
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Salford, Manchester,
Emanuele Borgonovo Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA United Kingdom
Universitá Bocconi, Milano, Italy Bev Littlewood Rolf Skjong
R.L. Boring City University London, London, UK Det Norske Veritas, Norway
Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, Idaho, United States B. Iooss
Curtis Smith
Jean-Marc Bourinet Electricité de France (EDF), Research and Development
INL, Idaho Falls, ID, USA
SIGMA Clermont Campus des Cézeaux Aubiére, France Division, Chatou, France
J. Song
Radim BRIŠ Sankaran Mahadevan
Seoul National University (SNU), Department of Civil and
VŠB Technical University of Ostrava,Czech Republic Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
Environmental Engineering, Seoul, Korea
Karen Marais
David W. Coit Purdue University, IN, USA John D. Sorensen
Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
Sebastian S. Martorell
Armen der Kiureghian Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain Mark G Stewart
University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley,CA, USA The University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia
Mohammad Modarres
Maxim Finkelstein University of Maryland, Maryland, MD, USA Bruno Sudret
University of the Free StateFree State, South Africa ETH Zürich
Toshio Nakagawa
Antoine Grall Aichi Institute of Technology, Toyota, Japan M. Sujan
Université de Technologie de Troyes,Troyes, France University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
Mustapha Nourelfath
Seth Guikema Université Laval, Quebec (Quebec), Canada L.P. Swiler
University of Michigan, MI, USA Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New
William L. Oberkampf
Kjell Hauskan Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA, Mexico, United States
University of Stavanger, Norway Georgetown, TX, USA Jussi K. Vaurio
Jon C. Helton Mahesh Pandey Fortum Power and Heat Oy, Loviisa, Finland
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada P. Weber
Hong-Zhong Huang I. A. Papazoglou University of Lorraine, Nancy, France
University of Electronic Science and Institute of Nuclear Technology and Shaomin Wu
Technology of China Radiation Protection, Greece University of Kent, Canterbury, The United Kingdom
Renyan Jiang Jinkyun Park
Changsha University of Science and Technology, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Daejeon, Liudong Xing
Changsha, Hunan 410114, China Republic of Korea University of Massachusetts, USA
Chris Johnson A.K. Parlikad Enrico Zio
University of Glasgow, UK University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
F.I. Khan Rui Peng Ming J Zuo
Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John’s, Canada University of Science & Technology Beijing, Beijing, China University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

1Deceased