Reliability benefits

Reliability of the Brayton system includes the turbomachinery as well as the rest of the gas loop. Use of installed spares will increase system resiliency in the event of a turbine failure, but will also create additional failure modes which need to addressed in the design process. Preliminary reliability analysis suggests that there is no realizable reliability benefit to adding spare Brayton loops. 

Another benefit in using this kind of automatic classifier is that the output data gives an indication of the classification reliability. This information could be used to inform the operator which classifications are less reliable. 

We are confident that any user of this combined evaluation technique, as well as the development of future test standards for manual ultrasonic testing will benefit from this result, because it allows a greater flexibility in the applicable method without loosing reliability. Often an expensive production of a reference block can be avoided and therefore testing costs are reduced. Since all calculations are performed by a PC, the operator can fully concentrate on his most important duty scanning the workpiece and observing the A-scan. Additional time will be saved for the test documentation, since all testing results are stored in the instrument s memory (the PC s hard drive) with full link to the Software World (Microsoft Word, Excel, etc.). 

The pursuit of product quality over the last few decades has been intense in many companies around the world, but in many sectors of industry, reliability is considered to be the most important quality attribute of the product (Kehoe, 1996). As consumers become more aware than ever of quality, their expectations for reliability are also increasing. Even equipment without obvious safety concerns can have important reliability implications. Most products can, therefore, benefit from the use of sound reliability techniques (Burns, 1994). Reliability prediction, in turn, has the benefit that it gives a quantifiable estimate of the likely reliability that can be assessed to see if this is appropriate for the market (Stephenson and Wallace, 1996). 

The benefit using the approach over other methods is that it can be used to solve the general reliability equation for combination of distribution, including when there are multiple load applications. This is only possible when the loading stress is described in closed form. 

However, even when we determine that the benefits of an inherently less safe technology justify its use, we should always continue to look for inherently safer alternatives. Technology continues to evolve and advance, and inherently safer alternatives which are not economically attractive today may be very attractive in the future. The development of new inherently safer technology offers the promise of more reliably and economically meeting process safety goals. 

Consider the incident avoidance benefits of reliable equipment when specifying hardware. 

In order to do so, you will need to perform Hartree-Fock NMR calculations using the 6-311+G(2d,p) basis set. Compute the NMR properties at geometries optimized with the B3LYP method and the 6-31G(d) basis set. This is a recommended model for reliable NMR predictions by Cheeseman and coworkers. Note that NMR calculations typically benefit from an accurate geometry and a large basis set. 

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