Uncertainty analysis based on probability bounds (P-Box) approach in probabilistic safety assessment

Risk Analysis

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 662-675

  Karanki, Durga Rao ^a,b   Kushwaha, Hari Shankar ^b   Verma, Ajit Kumar ^c   Ajit, Srividya ^c  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

Epistemic and aleatory uncertainty; Monte Carlo simulation; Probabilistic safety assessment; Probability bounds; Unavailability

Indexed keywords

EPISTEMIC AND ALEATORY UNCERTAINTY; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; PROBABILISTIC SAFETY ASSESSMENT; PROBABILITY BOUNDS; UNAVAILABILITY;

COSMIC RAY DETECTORS; FORMAL LOGIC; FUZZY SETS; LEAD ALLOYS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OCEAN STRUCTURES; SAFETY ENGINEERING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

DECISION MAKING; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; SAFETY; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DEMPSTER PRACTICE BEHAVIOR SCALE; EPISTEMOLOGY; FUZZY SYSTEM; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARAMETER; PROBABILISTIC SAFETY ASSESSMENT; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIMULATION; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY;

PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 63849207340     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: 15396924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2009.01221.x     Document Type: Article

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