1. Reliability assessment and integrity management of data buoy instruments used for monitoring the Indian Seas
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Malayath Aravindakshan Atmanand, G. Vengatesan, Rajagopalan Lavanya, M. Arul Muthiah, Ramasamy Venkatesan, and Narayanaswamy Vedachalam
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0106 biological sciences ,Mean time between failures ,Engineering ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Buoy ,business.industry ,010604 marine biology & hydrobiology ,Suite ,Ocean Engineering ,01 natural sciences ,Integrity management ,Cyclone ,Systems design ,Submarine pipeline ,business ,Reliability (statistics) ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,Marine engineering - Abstract
Reliable performance is the key requirement for instruments used in offshore moored buoys for cyclone monitoring, as under performance of the sensors can have a serious impact on the societal protection, and in addition, lead to costly repair and reinstallations. The instrument selection and application practices are based on the experiences of the global scientific community, and their performances are monitored based on IEC61508 standards. Reliability modeling based on experiences in the operation and maintenance of moored surface buoys for approximately two decades has identified that the sensor suite used for cyclone monitoring has a Mean Time Between Failure of 0.6 years, which is the basis of the implemented reliability centered maintenance strategies. As this is the first attempt to study the performance of such moored buoy instruments which have cumulatively clocked more than 7.3 million demanding offshore instrument-hours, the data presented shall serve as input for the offshore environmental instrument system design.
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- 2016