Infrastructure Asset Management
| Code | School | Level | Credits | Semesters |
| CIVE4019 | Civil Engineering | 4 | 10 | Spring UK |
- Code
- CIVE4019
- School
- Civil Engineering
- Level
- 4
- Credits
- 10
- Semesters
- Spring UK
Summary
This course (module) considers the use of system reliability assessment techniques to support asset management decision making. The course covers the analysis of asset failure data, how to construct and analyse asset degradation models and how to use optimisation techniques to enable the selection of optimal maintenance strategies. The techniques will be discussed in the context of their application to asset infrastructures.
For students requiring reassessment, this will be limited to the components which have been failed and these will be in the same form as the original assessment.
Target Students
MSc students in the Department of Civil Engineering.
Assessment
- 100% Exam 1 (2-hour): Written examination
Assessed by end of spring semester
Educational Aims
To provide: (i) An understanding of the effects of maintenance on the management of assets; (ii) An understanding of the basic statistical, probabilistic and mathematical concepts required to predict the reliability of components in systems undergoing different asset management approaches; (iii) An understanding of how to critically compare asset management strategies; (iv) A detailed knowledge of the use of asset degradation models to make optimal maintenance decisions.Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this course (module), students will be able to:
1. Select and apply asset degradation and maintenance models to analyse the maintenance of assets.
2. Use appropriate modelling and optimisation techniques to enable informed decision making on maintenance management.
3. Fit a statistical distribution to historical asset data and interpret the results to identify the process of asset degradation.
This will contribute to the following programme learning outcomes (see Programme (Plan) Specifications for details):
- Knowledge and Understanding: M1, M2
- Intellectual Skills: M3, M6