AN ECONOMICS-BASED INTELLIGENCE (EI) TOOL FOR PRESSURE VESSEL & PIPING (PVP) FAILURE CONSEQUENCE ESTIMATION

Published

July 20, 2010

Author(s)

Robert E. Chapman, Jeffrey T. Fong, David T. Butry, Douglas S. Thomas, James J. Filliben, Nathanael A. Heckert

Abstract

This paper is built around ASTM E 2506, Standard Guide for Developing a Cost-Effective Risk Mitigation Plan for New and Existing Constructed Facilities. E 2506 establishes a three-step protocol--perform risk assessment, specify combinations of risk mitigation strategies for evaluation, and perform economic evaluation--to insure that the decision maker is provided the requisite information to choose the most cost effective combination of risk mitigation strategies. Because decisions associated with low-probability, high-consequence events involve uncertainty both in terms of appropriate evaluation procedures and event-related measures of likelihood and consequence, NIST developed a Risk Mitigation Toolkit. This paper uses (a) a data center undergoing renovation for improved security, and (b) a PVP-related failure event to illustrate how to perform the E 2506 three-step protocol with particular emphasis on the third step--perform economic evaluation. The third step is built around the Cost-Effectiveness Tool for Capital Asset Protection (CET), which was developed by NIST. Version 4.0 of CET is used to analyze the security- or failure-related event with a focus on consequence estimation and consequence assessment via Monte Carlo techniques. CET 4.0 includes detailed analysis and reporting features designed to identify key cost drivers, measure their impacts, and deliver estimated consequence parameters with uncertainty bounds. Significance of this economics-based intelligence (EI) tool is presented and discussed for security- or failure-consequence estimation to risk assessment of failure of critical structures or components.

Proceedings Title

Proceedings of 2010 ASME Pressure Vessels and Piping Division Conference

Conference Dates

July 18-22, 2010

Conference Location

Bellevue, WA

Pub Type

Conferences

Keywords

ASTM E2506, consequence uncertainty, economic evaluation, risk mitigation toolkit, risk uncertainty

Citation

Chapman, R. , Fong, J. , Butry, D. , Thomas, D. , Filliben, J. and Heckert, N. (2010), AN ECONOMICS-BASED INTELLIGENCE (EI) TOOL FOR PRESSURE VESSEL & PIPING (PVP) FAILURE CONSEQUENCE ESTIMATION, Proceedings of 2010 ASME Pressure Vessels and Piping Division Conference, Bellevue, WA (Accessed October 18, 2025)