Reliability Engineering & System Safety

Editor: Carlos Guedes Soares Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Avenida Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal, Editorial Board: T. Aldemir Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA, J. Andrews University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England, UK, T. Aven University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway, T. Bedford University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, C. Berenguer Grenoble Institute of Technology, Grenoble, France, V.M. Bier University of Wisconsin at Madison, Madison, WI, USA, H.S. Blackman Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID, USA, E. Borgonovo Università Bocconi, Milano, Italy, M. Cepin University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia, D.W. Coit Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA, A. Der Kiureghian University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA, S. Guikema Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA, Y.Y. Haimes University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA, M. S. Hamada Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA, K. Hausken University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway, J. Helton Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA, P. Hokstad SINTEF, Trondheim, Norway, C.W. Johnson University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK, V. Krivstov Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI, USA, B. Leira Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway, M. Lemaire French Institute of Mechanical Engineering (IFMA), Aubière, France, G. Levitin The Israel Electric Corp, Haifa, Israel, B. Littlewood City University London, London, UK, M.A. Maes University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, S. Mahedevan Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA, S. Martorell Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain, R. Melchers University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia, M. Modarres University of Maryland, Maryland, MD, USA, T. Nakagawa Aichi Institute of Technology, Toyota, Japan, M. Nourelfath Université Laval, QC, Canada, A. Papazoglou Institute of Nuclear Technology, Aghia Paraskevi, Greece, A. B. Rauzy Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau Cedex, France, C. M. Rocco Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela, J. Saleh Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, P. H. Seong Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea, R. Skjong Det Norske Veritas AS, Høvik, Norway, C. Smith INL, Idaho Falls, ID, USA, M. Stamatelatos NASA HQ, Washington, DC, USA, J. D. Sørensen Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark, K. S. Trivedi Duke University, Durham, NC, USA, J. K. Vaurio Fortum Power & Heat Oy, Loviisa, Finland, M. Xie National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore, Singapore, E. Zio Ecole Centrale Paris-Supelec, Milan, Italy, M. J. Zuo University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, Former Editor George Apostolakis Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA