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A study of abnormal occurence reports

Taylor, J.R.

Publication date:1975

Document VersionPublisher's PDF, also known as Version of record

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Citation (APA):Taylor, J. R. (1975). A study of abnormal occurence reports. Risø National Laboratory. Risø-M No. 1837

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A. E.K.Risø R isø -M- [S

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Titte and author(s)

A STUDY Or ABNORMAL OCCURRENCE REPORT.

«»K» i ' a v i o r

pages -f Ubles -f illustrations

Date S^-pt-r-cer l?v5

Department or group

Group's own registration numbers)

PM

Abstract

A detailed study of fai lu re and occurrence report

froxi five U.S. nuclear r e a c t o r s . Data concerning the

frequency of f a i lu re causer and - u i t i f a i l u r e incident ;

are given.

Methods of f a i lu re c lanr i f ' ico t ic- , a r - difjcunr-a.

Copies to

Available on request from the Library of the Danish Ate nic Energy Commission (Atomenergikommissionens Bit ©tek). Rise, BK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark Telephone; (OS) 35 51 01, est, 334, telex: 43116

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TABI£ OF COWTETT5

Page

Foreword • I

Introduction • 1

Choice of data . .* 2

Classification of occurrences 2

Event sequence . — 5

Canton node and coupled failures 11

Failure cause 11

Data l*i

Causes of failure 1*+

Hultifailure incidents 24

Conclusions 26

Appendix 1* Classification of failure events 2&

Appendix 2. Data 32

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Foreword

Reports are prepared by engineers in U.S. nuclear power piar.*;: for u vide

range of component failures and similar occurrences. I hi- pr-vcii- reporting re­

quirements are specified in the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Coi?.-issicn£ Regulatory

Guide 1.16. Until 197i*t such reports were termed Abnorssai Occurrence reports.

but since then the term "Abnormal Occurrence reports" has beer, reserved for

those occurrences which have seme safety significance. What were earlier tersed

"Abnormal Occurrences" are now as a general class, t erred Reportable- Occurrences.

The reports are published by the US NRC. The work here ccr.cerr.r a study cf

"Abnormal Occurrence Reports", using the pre 19?** definition and data up tc and

including spring 197^• The data cover a wide range of occurrence types. In. par­

ticular they give component failure data mostly of relatively uni-portar.t indi­

vidual component failures, such as miscalibration of a single redundant instru-

ment, but in sone cases for failures of sorse engineering significance. The re-

forts are much less forssal than those required for reliability data oanks. They

give considerably more background information concerning t'.ie cause ard natur--

of failures than do reliability data banks; and also much -nore information

concerning consequences and interrelationships between separate failures.

For this reason, the reports provide very valuable information, which is

relevant not only to the study of nuclear power plant reliability, but also

provides insight into the way failures can occur in many different kinds of

process plant.

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A STUDY OF ABNGSKAL OCCURRENCE REPORTS

latroductiori

An earlier study (Ris^-K-17^2) attested to evaluate the rcle of design

etr<*rs in nuclear power plant reliability. The results of that study showed

that design error plays a large role ir. cover plant failure: a.-.d the surprising

result that an unexpectedly large proportion of failure Incidents involve sev­

eral independent component failures.

Several questions arose as a result of that earlier work. Gr.e would ~x-

ptet- that the role of design error diminishes for individual plants as they

grow older. It was decided to investigate the senier.ce of afcr.or.Tial occurrence

reports from individual reactors over a number of years.

Another question is the extent tc which separate failures in rnulti-failure

incidents contribute significantly to the failure consequence. It is possible

that several of the failures within an incident have no direct bearing on the

extent of failure consequences. They may play an incidental rather than crucial

par* in the failure sequence.

The remaining area of interest for this study is the problem of common mode

failure. The importance of common sod** failure was established earlier, but the

only datum obtained was a gross figure for the proportion of failures involving

common mode effects. Results of the coisror. 20de failure study performed here

are published separately (Ris2-K-l826).

A major eleaent in motivating this study, was the desire to discover the

weak points in existing techniques of failure sode analys:s of process plant,

and to develop the background information for improving those techniques. There

are some types of failure for which no systematic analysis technique exists,

for erample

- wiring errors involving incorrect interconnections

- "system design" errors in control systems

- mechanical blockage and jamming problems arising from loose parts

- errors in written procedures

- human eri*ors due to confusion between procedures or misinterpretation

of operating situation.

All of these problems involve complex conmon mode effects, and it is

important to discover to what extent they are important ir. practice.

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The procedure in this study has been to take individual incident reports,

and to classify then according to fixed criteria. The nature o; the data prevents

one from obtaining good statistical data with known significance, but it is

felt that qualitative, and "order of Magnitude" conclusions can be drawn from

the results.

Choic* of data

The data used for this study is abnormal occurrence data submitted to the

BSdC by operators of light water reactors. The reason for this choice is that

the iaforaation is readily available, there are consistent criteria for reporting

the data (reporting is required by law}, and the quality of the reporting is

generally excellent. The information differs from that usually available in

reliability data banks, in that complete failure incidents are described, often

involving several individual component failures.

The choice of reactors for this study was determined by the availability

of records for a period of years. Records from the earliest years of reactor

operation were however not available to the author. There has been a change in

style of reporting over a number of years, and this has to some extent negated

the value of the data as a record of "design error" evolution.

Classification of occurrences

For each occurrence report, the date, six month period lumber (from

reactor start up), operating state at the time of occurrence, and method of

failure discovery were recorded. Most failures are detected during surveillance

testing, some via special inspections, but many are discovered as "actual"

failure incidents which interfere with plant operation. In many cases a failed

condition existed over a considerable period, but the plant state recorded

was nevertheless the plant state at the time the failure was discovered. In

virtually all cases it is true that a latent failure, discovered during sur­

veillance or special testa, has existed while the plant was operating.

Kach individual component failure was recorded separately for each inci­

dent, and in some cases there were several failures contributing to the inci­

dent.

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OP Plant operational, generating power.

SU Plant was in start up phase.

SD Plant was in shut down phase.

Cfi Plant was in cold shut down state.

SF Plant was shut down for refuelling.

Table 1. Classification of plant states at the time of failure discovery.

ACT "Actual" incident - occurs during normal operation of

component.

SOB Failure discovered during surveillance testing.

PM Failure discovered during post maintenance testing of

the failed component.

COM Failure discovered during coaaissioning tests.

SI Failure discovered during special inspection, as a

result of suspected incipient failure, or as a result

of information from other plants.

SO Failure discovered during start up testing.

Table 2. Classification of "mode of discovery" of failures.

In a study such as this, which is concerned with the cause of failure, it

is important to define the term component failure carefully. A failure is deemed

to have occurred, if a component is incapable of fulfilling its function, in

spite of the fact that inputs such as power supplies, control signals, mechanical

support, etc. are within the limits specified for the component. Failures due

to incorrect input are judged to be consequent failures, and were recorded for

interest, but were excluded from statistical analyses. Failures due »o environ­

mental changes were recorded as component failures, unless the environmental

change was a result of some earlier component failure in which case they were

classified as consequent failures, and again omitted from statistical analyses.

The degree to which a plant is divided into "components" also affects the

number of component failures recorded. In this study, a standard level of div-

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islon into components was used, as expressed by table J. Hoverer, where a

component was part of a larger component or subsystem, this faet was recorded

by concatenating component and system names.

Amplifier

Anuunciaton

Battery

Battery charger

Cable

Capacitor

Circuit breaker

Magnetic clutch

Control Bwitch

Coil

Diode

Detector

DC power supply

Flow switch

Beater

Input module

Inverter (solidstate)

level switch

lamp

Limit switch

Manual switch

Meter, guage

Motor

AM

AN

BT

BC

CAB

CAP

CB

CL

CO

DI

DE

DC

FS

BC

IM

IN

IVL

UfP

LHT

SV

ac MO

Motor starter

Potentiometer

Recorder

Lightning arrester

Ground switch

Relay

Relay or switch contact

Reset switch

Resistor

Signal comparator

Pressure switch

Torque switch

Temperature switch

Fuse

Generator

Heat tracing

Test button

Thermal overload

Transformer

Transmitter

Wire

Solenoid

MS

POT

SEC

IA

OS

SE

CN

RS

RST

COMP

PS

TQS

TS

F0

OE

HT

SB

OL

TFMR

TKTR

W

SOL

Table 3A. Electrical component coding.

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Accumulator

Blower

Control rod drive

Control rod

Cover plate

Core

Damper

Diesel

Expansion joint

Filter, strainer

Flexible pipe, hose

Fuel

Gas bottle

Oaekat

Heat exchanger

Insulation (thermal)

Ion exchanger

Noggle

Orifice

Pipe

Pipe Cap

Pipe Support

Pressure vessel

Pump

AC

BL

CRD

CR

COV

COS

m DBS

XJ

n. FLEX

F

GB

GK

HEX

TINS

HX

NZ

OS

PP

CP

COP

FV

PM

Refrigeration unit

Sluice

Sump

Tank

Tubing

gate

Turbine

Condenser

Vent

Well

Valve,

Seal

check

explosive

hydraulic

notarised

pneumatic

relief

manual

safety

atop

vacuum relief

main steam isolation

solenoid

Actuating mechanism

RF

SL

SP

TK

TUB

TURB

COND

VT

WL

CV

EV

HV

MV

AV

SV

XV

SV

DV

vv MS IV

CT

SL

ACT

Table 3B. Mechanical component coding.

Event sequence

The structure of event sequences has a dirsot bearing on the way in which

failure records are interpreted and used in later failure node analyses. Failures

were classified as spontaneous, gradual, aiaoperation, latent or consequent.

A spontaneous failure is on* which occurs at the tin of the incident and

serves to start the incident. The classification of "gradual" failures was

introduced because it was difficult te describe some kinds of Initial failures

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SPONTANEOUS

FALURE

CONSEQUENT

FAUURE

•FAIURE OF COMPONENT

W OPERATION

MISSILE EFFECT

OVERHEATING

LOSS OF POWER ETC

Fig. 1 Evwit MOJMUCC wrftft ^oMoncow ond consttjntnt foHuras

MITIAL EVENT CAUSE

- SPONTANEOUS fiULURE

-ROUTINE OPERATING EVENT

-SURVELLANCE TEST

fen

INITIAL

EVENT

2 failura

COMPONENT X OPERATES?

NO VES

Fig. 2 EwntMqwnc* wHh latanl faHw*

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FAILURE IS DETECTED

BY INSPECTION

FURTHER CONSEQUENT

FAILURE

Fig. 3 Alternativt gradual '

mMtng from

E.G. START OF MOTOR

OR HUMAN OPERATION

MISOPERATION ACTION

SUCCESSFUL

Pfe4.- fwMI

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as spontaneous, for example slow leaks which are detected after they tare caused

farther damage.

latent failures occur in components which are callod on to work intermit­

tently. Such components may exist in a failed state, which i« "revealed" when

the conponent is tested or is called on to operate.

Kisoperation failures are those which occur when a component or operater

is called on to carry out such operation, and which occur while the conponent

or operator is carrying out the operation.

Consequent failures are those which occur as a direct result of soeje

earlier failure.

S Spontaneous

G <temdual

L latest

K Misoperation

C Consequeut

table •>. Classification of failures according to how they are

triggered.

farther classification of "consequent" failures is possible - Input

failures (I) fi mi i1 failures), overload or stress failures (secondary fail­

ures) (0), and direct effect failures (D). Such classification is often Bade

la failure node analysis studies. Bat such classification was Bade only for

coaaon node failures, 1B this study.

Symbolic description of the different kinds of failure are shown in fig.

1 to *» (see KUe Report Kise-H-17->3) • For each of the different kinds of fall­

ure, a different nodel is required to describe failure probability.

as a result of the study, sone of the Initial ideas on classification of fail­

ures were revised, and these ideas, which were net used in the study itself.

are given i n Appendix 1.

One of the important objectives of thin study was to ohmene the neafter

of failure events occurring in actual failure sequences. For this purpose,

failures detected by testing were ignored. Mao, several failures occurring

within similar components due to a common node effect, were treated as single

failures. Consequent failures which were certain to occur, given earlier fail­

ures, is the sequence were ignored. But consequent failures which involved some

probability factor, such as destruction of component« by Impinging stsaa Jets,

were counted as separate failures.

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Coamon mode and coupled failures

As part of the study of multiple failures, a study was made of common mode and coupled failures in similar plant components. The results of this sttriy are iresented in a separate report.

* Failure cause

The objective in this study has been to come as close as possible to the

original cause of failure. Failure causes are classified at two levels, as

shown in table ->. The second level of classification is much less certain tha:.

the first. In the ease of operator and maintenance errors, the subclaseification

was completely experimental.

To maintain consistency of cause classification it is important to have

clear criteria. An error warn considered a design error if it was explicitly

described as much in the abmrmal occurrence report, if it was one of a long

series of similar failures with very high failure rate, or if the design was

modified as a result of the failure. A similar criterion was used for classi­

fying procedural errors. Failures were classed as operator errors if this was

explicitly stated in the abnormal occurrence report, and similarly for main­

tenance and installation errors. (This can lead to underestimation of operator errors)

Random component failures were recorded in those cases where a simple

standard mechanism of component failure was involved e.g. bearing leakage,

shorting of a relay coil etc., and in which no excessive grouping of failures

of a similar kind occurred.

In some cases, more than one cause of component failure could be discovered.

In other cases, it was difficult to judge between two alternative failure causes.

In these cases, fractional contributions to failure classes were recorded, an

equal fraction to each contributing cause.

In many cases, the same kind ef failure occurred in the same component

several times in the course of a few years. These cases were counted as single

failures in determining relative importance of different failure causes (though

all incidents were counted in determining coaaon mode failure proportions). If

one does not count failure causes in this way, then sone frequently occurring

failure types come to dominate the distribution of causes. The proportion of

design error failures, in particular, becomes Inflated.

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Cause subclass

C Random component failure

S Design error

0 Operator error

H Mechanical

E Electrical

0 Problem unknown at design time

C Complex system interactions

1 Interdisciplinary problems

0 Oversight

K Coiiiniication problems

Z Calculation, sizing problems

S Component selection problem

0 Omission

X Unnecessary extra operation

*" wrong target of operation

E Error in amount of operation

ft Error in operation sequence

P wrong procedure used

J Judgement of quantity

C Communication problem

R tack of recognition of danger

situation

H Precognition of danger situation

Table *t. Coding for causes of failure.

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Cause Cause subclass

H Maintenance error

I Installation error

P Procedure error

F Fabrication fault

? Cause unknown

A Adjustment (of instruments, switches)

0 Omission of step in installation,

repair

P Positioning of component

H Misuse of component, handling

problem

B activation of other equipment not

under repair

C Choice of component to install.

repair

1 Interchange of two components,

cables etc.

Quality of join

Omission of subprocedure

Extra control, checking required

Procedure open to misinterpretation

Effect unknown before failure

Procedure wrong

Table **. Continued.

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Beta

Abnormal occurrence reports frem ri«« reactera ven classified for react««

with start up dates in 196a , 196}, 1*7, 1969, and 197o. Abnormal occurrence

reports were generally available to the aether only rroa tk* later years of

reactor operation (fros 1969 onward}.

Both the number and character of abnormal occurrences vane* greatly froa

reactor to reactor. The eariatiaa coald ham aria« froa the differaat emmntity

and type of equipment at the realtor plant, as veil as dir ferene« in reliability

of components. Hoverer, it was hoped that bj concentrating on the eroaortion

of occurrence« of different types, atsnirgful coatlaaions could he draan.

Ås can be seen froa fig. 7 not too aach significance can he attached to

the actual nuabers of abaoraal occurrence reports for successive years.

In addition to abnormal occurrence reports, aoae "unusual m a t " reports

ware included in the analysis, where the reports concern safety related or

pressure boundary equipment (see BSLK safety (aide 13.2. for definition of

abnorasl occurrence, unusual event).

There say be soae Missions of abnormal occurrence reports for the reactors

studied, though where possible records were checked against semiannual operating

reports. On the assumption that omissions are randomly distributed, the effect

on proportions of failure' types should not be too iaportant.

Is all there were 67, 2<t, 33, 1W. 75 abaoraal occurrences for the respect­

ive reactors.

Causes of failure

Fig. 8 and 9 show bow the various causes of failure behave as plants grew

older. No significant trends can be detected, the proportion of failures due

to respective causes seen if anything aore or less constant. Bat such more

data would be required, before trends could he detected beneath the nodes)

variations in the data. As has been observed in esrlier studies, design error

seems to be the dominant cause of failure, followed by random component failure.

Table 5 gives the numbers of failures attributed to particular cause classes,

for each of the reactors studied. The pattern ia aore or leas constant, appart

froa an unusually high proportion of failures attributed to eaintanaace errora,

for one of the older reactors, and a coaplete lack of reported operator errors

for one reactor.

The classification of secondary causes for design, operator, procedure, and

aaintenanee errors are shown in tables 6 to 9. Tot classifications bare are

sxptrinental, and should be regarded as indicative rather than definite. Sash

slaaslfieations can be used as a guide to qualitative studies of failure causes.

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INSUFFICIENT DATA

I t l i i l 1

• « a u w Fig. > PROPORTION OF OPERATOR AND

PROCEDURE ERRORS

20 22 2* HALF YEAR

* Q P A U '•• I I

I

INSUFFKCNT OAU

D M/J

—»— 10

- 4 — 12 W W W

Fig. S PROPORTION OF COMPONENT, DESIGN, AND, MAINTENANCE/INSTALLATION ERRORS

20 22 I

2* HALF YEAR

20

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å

1

2

3

4

5

ALL

b b 09

& •H

3 7 *

1*

48

>4

Jl*

3 5 *

lure

C

8

1 O

6 0

1 PS

u *

11

i i

17

23

1 8 *

M O

fc V b o ** m b

1 1 0 *

l i

0

12

19

12 *

* •o

u

1 B

•M

U

I 1 8 *

11

7

9

7

1 0 *

llati

on

S 3 -*4 b O

* u i ** b c o

•H b

2 .

1 6 *

5

10

6

12 *

'ft b • o

•H

S •H

I i *

0

0

0

3

1 *

b O

•S

1 <-4

S« , • ^ T

°s • o

l i 7 *

18

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17

7

1 2 *

1 •a -d

m it. •H *

b •** O » b £ a 3

1?

82

28

42

174

96

1.22

Table 5. Cause classes for component failures.

^»••epsj iPSH

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Conponeat selection 14

Oversight 17

Error due to effect unknown at

design tine 25

Sizing, dimensioning error 13

Error due to lack of recognition of

conplex systea interactions 7

Error due to connunication probleas 1

Error with cause unknown or unrecorded 22 Table 6. Design error secondary causes

( Based on 147 occurrences)

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% of error

Omission of a step, operation or

procedure (reason for oaiasion

unknown) **9

Wrong procedure used 16

lack of recognition of situation 7

Misrecognition of situation 2

Error in operation sequence **

Operation applied to wrong target

component *t

Error of judgement of asount 2

Error due to CIIIHMIideations problem,

lack of coBflunication h

Error in aaount of adjustaent 2

Error due to unknown cause 9

Table 7* Secondary causes of operator errors.

(Based on 77 occurrences)

Error due to oadssion of step

H Error due to oaiasion, because

effect was unknown at the tise

the procedure was defined 16

If Efcoeedure was open to Misinterpretation,

unclear 7

F Wrong test frequency specified 2

V Wrong procedure specified 2

C Extra control required - procedure

does not contain sufficient cross

checks 6

? Error with unknown cause 1**

Table 8. Secondary causes of errors in procedures.

(Based on Mt occurrences)

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A Problem with adjustment of instnmnts,

lindt, torque switches ate.

V Wrong operation carried out, or

right operation carried oat wrongly,

due to lack of knowledge or expertise

B Spurious activation of other equipment

while carrying out testa or repair

I Interchange of two cables

0,0 Omission of operation, doe either to

oversight or to ignorance of requirement

P Srror positioning component

<i Probleas of quality in soldering,

welding

B Error due to lack of recognition of

situation

C Krror in choice of which component

to repair

S Breach of safety regulations

1 Error due to unidentified causes 2$

Table 9, Secondary cause« of installation and maintenance

errors.

' (Based on W occurrences)

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It is possible to make some qualitative comments on the results.

A lsrge proportion of design errors involve effects which were unknown

before failure occurred. Many failures ot this type occur repeatedly, the

same component sometimes being repaired several times before the failure is

correctly diagnosed. Such incidents underline the value of abnormal occurrence

reporting.

Another large group of design errors involve inappropriate choice, of

materials, or especially, of instruments. Problems of this kind can be reduced

by qualification testing and standardisation, activities which are receiving

a great deal of attention from nuclear engineers.

By far the largest proportion of operator errors involve omission or

oversight, involving just a single type of plant operations. By their nature,

such errors are relatively easy to forsee, and analyse, even in the cases

where several components are affected in a common mode fashion. More serious

are the errors due to lack of recognition of dangerous situations, misrecog-

nition, application of inappropriate procedures or application of correct

procedures to the wrong component. Among installation and maintenance errors,

difficulties in adjusting limit switches and torque switches are outstanding.

Some types of failure are difficult to account for in failure analysis.

It is difficult to identify all of the failures of this kind, but the following

provides a list of errors which occurred, but for which no systematic failure

analysis procedure exists (as yet).

loose parts jamming 5

electrial circuit omissions or miswiring 5

omission of essential procedural steps,

or incorrect steps 3

human decision errors with wide ranging effects 3

established trip levels inappropriate 6

water hammer affeots 3

Also, there were some instances of problems present special difficulties in

failure mode analysis.

common dependence of several components on one

service supply or environment 7

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lailtifeilnre incidents

ID thi« study, as in the previous one, the number af aaltiple fallere incidents was high when cenpared with esptctatioa. At the level of conaeeaeace repraaantcd by abnorasl occarrancc reporte, there ara at i l l a significant saauer of *, 5, 6, ana 7 fold failar* iocidenta <fig. 8 ) .

Ihia patters hold* traa in epite af the fact that

a> failure« to several csapoaents af the aaaa type, dae to

th* aaas caaaa, han been treated aa aiagle failaraa.

b) failaraa ahich ara a direct »naiaaaa« of earlier failar*«, are not coanted in arriving at the naaeer of independent failsrea.

c) failarea ahieh do not contribute significantly to the

consequences of the incident ham been ignored.

asaeining the nature of the aoltiple failara incidenta reveals aereral diatinct type«.

blovdovn incidents, in ahieh steaa i s released, ceasing defects in wuruuuding coaponents to be mea led , in Beat cases, and eaasiaf a large variety of safety esaponeats to be activated.

anltiple haaan error«. It i s clear that i s sos» of these incidents there i s coapling between the errors. Once one haaan being baa aade an error, others tend to parpetaste i t . Boweer, the nature and »egret of interdepeadence of these errors i s difficult to deteraiae.

- because of the »ay that these data are classified, i f single consonant fa i l s to »ark IHIBBBI I t s amliii i s inappropriate and ita operating procedure i s incorrect, the result i s counted as a doable fails**. This "elassifisatioa effect" i s significant in raising the naaber of 2 and J fold failure«. It does not contribute eignificantly to the naaber of •», S, 6 fold failaraa ete.

•y far the largest proportion of failure types in the aultipls failure incidents are latent failures revealed daring special lneideat conditions, or revealed »hen safety equipment i s activated.

HO. OF MODEMS

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Couclusions

Conclusions as to the meaning and importance of the kind of results given

here have been presented before (Rise—M-17**2). The additional data collected

hare serve merely to reinforce those conclusions which are

1) That design and other human errors are responsible for a significant

number of failures and abnormal occurrences.

2) Some "design error" type failures cannot be accounted for in tra­

ditional types of reliability analysis.

3) Improvement in particular component reliability performance, in

testing, and in standardisation, should be valuable in improving

plant reliability, because a small number of component types are

responsible for a large proportion of failures.

*0 Multiple failure incidents play an unexpectedly large role in

abnormal occurrences. Records of interrelationships between

failures would be a useful addition to failure statistics data

bases.

In addition to these.remarks, some conclusions can be offered concerning

the type of classification study attempted here.

It would be useful to obtain some standardization of the terms used in

classifying different types of failure, according to the way in which failures

reveal themselves, the plant state at «he time of occurrence and/cr discovery,

and the triggering mechanism of the failure. The classification used here is

self consistent, but is different from schemes used elsewhere.

The classification of primary causes of failure seems acceptable, and

is similar to that use by the U8AEC (e.g. CCE-OS-001, 197'*). However the method

of classification used here, attributing a failure to a single class, or using

fractions to represent degree of responsibility for a particular causa, is

•assy. Accepting that a failure may have several causes, and that the per­

centages of failures due to different causes may total to more t&an locje,

»erne preferable. But if this method of classification is accepted, sow defi­

nition must be made of how important and unusual an effect oust be, before it

is accepted as a contributing cause of failure.

The classification of different failure causes into secondary categories

was not particularly successful. Often there was insufficient information in

the abnormal occurrence reports to make classification precise. And the cat-

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egoriee used here often overtapped. The information in such classification

should not be used to derive percentages to which different causes are respon­

sible for failures. The information might be used to perform clustering studies,

with the hope of finding more clearly identifiable types of failure.

Uncertainty as to cause of failure should not be used as an excuse for

assigning two causes to a particular failure. Instead, if there are several

clearly alternative causes, this fact should be recorded explicitly (e.g.

A/B aeans either cause A or cause B is involved, C H D/E means either cause

C and E are together responsible, or cause E is responsible). Failure for which

causes are unknown, should be recorded separately. Only in this way is it

possible to interpret the meaning of failure cause data.

A revised system of classifying different failures according to event

sequences, is given in appendix 1.

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Affieodtx i. Classification of failure events

Classificatici of the different kind of failure events which can enter

into event sequences is useful and important, because it indicates the relevance

of particular pieces of failure data to different reliability calculation models.

In fact, as reliability models become more complex, more complex failure classi­

fications are required. The scheme introduced here ie therefore just a particu­

lar example of a range of possible schemes which differ in level of detail.

The first distinction is made between failures which are caused by some

external event or process, and those which arise with no apparent cause or for

which the failure cause is an inherent property of the component. This second

group is the one which has been called "random component failure" earlier in

this note* These are called spontaneous failures here. Examples are the normal

forme of bearing failure, relay contact failure etc., for which no specific cause

can be described, or which cannot be prevented in normal engineering practice.

Examples of typical causes in the first group of failures are design and instal­

lation errors, extreme environmental conditions, misoperation by an operator etc.

A distinction which is equally important for obtaining a reliability model

of failure consequences is whether the effects follow instantaneously from the

failure, or whether the effects are gradual (e.g. slow leakage of some valuable

material).

When components operate Intermittently or only occasionally (such as safety

systems) or with intermittent load (such as many pneumatic orhydraulic systems)

a third distinction becomes important - whether the effects of the failure remain

latent, or whether the consequences show themselves inraediately. In the case of

a latent failure, a failure event occurs at some time. The component is reduced

to a state in which it cannot operate according to specifications. When the

component is called upon to operate (the failure is triggered), a "failure to

operate" occurs.

The definitions of the various failure types are illustrated in fig* 7*

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eontinuing failure .

external cause

slow, continuing consequence

caused failures

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external cause

•'instantaneous consequence

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internal or "normal" cause

slow continuing consequence for plant

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^internal or "normal" cause

delayed consequences for plant

Fig. 7* Definitions of failure classes.

For latent failures, the stage at which the failure is discovered becomes

important, especially for systems in which automatic continuous testing and

periodic testing is performed.

A latent failure may remain hidden due to the fact that the particular

type of error is not exercised or triggered by the test inputs applied. These

failures are called "ttntriggered", Equally* a failure may be triggered, but

its effects may not be indicated because the failure alarm outputs and test

measurements performed, are inadequate. These failures are called unmonitored.

(Bee fig. 3 ) .

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Stage at which failure pheaotwson occurs

kind of failure involved

latent

issediate

coatiBBOUS operation

failure in operation

during stand-by

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active failure

on activation

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Table lo. TeraiG used in describing latent and is«ediate failure sequences.

k useful distinction in Judging the effectiveness of testing, i s that

between actual failures and failures found under test . For actual failures

consequences occur which affect the operation of the plant. The following

relation i s true.

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revealed by test

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Actual failures = hidden failures

+ failures in operation

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+ aisoperations. not under test

Finally, it is useful, in classifying oultiple failure sequences, to

indicate whether a failure was initial (initiated the sequence), contributory

(independent, but triggered as a result of the initial failure, or increasing

the consequences of the initial failure), or consequent (caused by the initial

failure).

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