Basic Ideas of the American-European Workshops 1997 in Berlin and 1999 in Boulder

摘要

The main objective of the workshops was to come to a common understanding of NDEreliability and the existing problems and different ways of its determinationbetween Europe and America and different fields of industry.The main output of the first workshop was the set up of a conceptual model :R ? f(IC) - g(AP) - h(HF)The conceptual model states that the total Reliability R of an NDE system issimply the sum of functions of: C, the Intrinsic Capability of the system AP, theeffect of Application Parameters, and HF, the effect of Human Factors.The second workshop discussed each one of the functions in the conceptual modelseperately and detailed and accomplished an important first step in formalizingand developing an NDE reliability process by developing definitions for the mostessential NDE reliability terms within the formula and related.