In this paper, an approach to aeronautical structural design based on reliability analysis is presented. In this way, the concept of level of safety is discussed and methods of its calculation using statistical data are described. Based on the concept of level of safety, a design procedure is proposed. In order to validate this design procedure, two design cases are studied. In the first case s...

We study the case of ‘‘inspect-all’’ policy, using off-line quality inspections to prevent non-conforming items from reaching the final consumer, in domains where an item is rejected upon first ‘‘failure’’ classification. Given a set of inspections with known inspection costs and error probabilities of two types (classifying conforming items as non-conforming and vice versa), the goal is to fin...

Many long established US DOE facilities are in possession of poorly documented wastes in a variety of forms spanning a broad range of waste containers, waste matrices and isotopic mixtures. Existing assay technologies such as the SuperHENC can address many of the expected waste configurations. However, there are also expected waste items that fall outside the normal operating range of these exc...