Failure analysis method transfer process

Although checklists are a useful way of transferring information about human-machine interaction to designers and engineers, they are not a standalone tool and they cannot provide a substitute for a systematic design process. The main concern with checklists is that they do not offer any guidance about the relative importance of various items that do not comply with the recommendations, and the likely consequences of a failure due to a noncompliance. To overcome such problems, checklists should be used in combination with other methods of task analysis or error analysis that can identify the complexities of a task, the relationships among various job components, and the required skills to perform the task. 

The probabilistic analysis presented in this chapter is not restricted to a specific fabrication approach but rather presents results as a function of the fiber volume fraction and can be applied to a wide range of pipe rehabilitation methods. The time-dependent failure probability analysis is illustrated for specific fiber volume fractions and can be repeated for any fiber volume fraction depending on the manufacturing process of interest. Typical fiber volume fractions of 30% and 40% are selected conservatively for example probability analysis conducted in the chapter. Recent efforts to measure fiber volume fractions used in composite pipe applications report fiber volume fraction values ranging from 47.6% to 54% for filament-wound composite pipes (Abdalla et al., 2008), and Chin and Lee (2005) measured volume fractions of 47% for unidirectional laminates manufactured via resin transfer molding in a trenchless rehabilitation scheme. 

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