CTRS Lab. Members

 
 

1. Ph.D. Students

  
Mohammadreza Azarkhail   Reliability Engineering

Mohammad Pour-Gol-Mohamad   Reliability Engineering

Samuel Chamberlain  Reliability Engineering

Jose Hurtado  Reliability Engineering
 

 

 


2. Ph.D. Graduates

 
No. 
Name
Year
Title of Dissertation
1
E. Lois
1985
A class specific approach to nuclear power plant safety stuidies with applications. 
2
H. Dezfuli 
1986
A correlation model to analyze dependent failures for probabilistic risk assessment. 
3
D. Chung  
1988
Real-time expert system for fault detection and failure prevention and applications. 
4
I. S. Kim  
1988
A model-based approach to on-line process disturbance management. 
5
J. Wang
1990
Development of an AI-based program for process safety evaulation. 
6
L. Chen  
1990
A hierarchical decision process for fault administration.  
7
L. Hammersten  
1991
Assessment of the effect of degraded equipment failures and untimely operator actions on nuclear plant safety.  
8
Y-S. Hu  
1994
Evaluating system behavior through dynamic MLD modeling  
9
J. K. Won 
1995
Modeling and diagnosis of equipment partial failures in process plants.  
10
T. Ni 
1997
Development of Partial Failure Analysis Method in Probabilistic Risk Assessment  
11
Y. Guan 
1997
A Method of Integrating Thermal-Hydraulics-Probabilistic Assessment For Safety Analysis and Screening With Applications to the AP600 Reactor  
12
James O'Brien  
1998
Methodology for Modeling System Evolution to Support Decisionmaking with an Application in Severe Accident Management 
13
H. Hadavi   
1998
Risk and Performance Based Techniques in System Health and Maintenance Monitoring 
 



 

3. M.S. Graduates

 
No. 
Name
Year
Title of Thesis
1
H. Dezfuli
Aug. 1983
Uncertainty analysis with correlated failure data 
2
F. Nouri
Aug. 1985
Probabilistic cost-based method for reactor operational improvement
3
C. Klee
May 1986
Plant categorization study of U.S. LWRs licensed 1979-1985
4
D. Rathbun
May 1987
Development of safety goals for nuclear power plants 
5
K. Kafie
May 1987
Development of the IBM-at version of correlate 
6
M. Cheek
May 1988
Plant health indicator studies
7
L. Abbott
Oct. 1988
Consistency checking during automatic knowledge acquisition for expert system development 
8
M. Middleton
Aug. 1988
Goal tree analysis modeling of localized corrosion and fatigue failure modes 
9
D. Koo
May 1989
D/Boolean applications in reliability analysis 
10
Y. Guan
Jan. 1990
Review of the reliability analysis techniques
11
A. Amirghasemi
Aug. 1990
A new look at uncertainty analysis 
12
D. Yeh
Nov. 1991
Application of RC-Expert: GTST model to analyze the root-cause of   reactor scram 
13
E. Soter
Nov. 1993
 Protective  coatings  as  a  means  of reliable  corrosion prevention
14
W. Wang
Dec. 1994
Artificial neural networks and their application 
15
S. Kumar
Dec. 1997
Development of Operator Support Expert System
16
C. Lam
Aug. 1997
Automation of Failure and Effect Analysis for Automotive Industry 
17
R. Alamsyah 
May 1998
Phenomena-Related Human Actions Analysis for the Westinghouse 
AP600 Accident Scenarios
   

4. Former Research Members
 
Atoosa Jalashgar
 

Kamreddin Olidren
 

Kae-Sheng Hsueh
 

Nihal Kececi  
 

Se Woo Cheon  
 

Ting-Chuan Wu