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Versatile Test Reactor Open Digital Engineering Ecosystem 多功能试验反应堆开放数字工程生态系统
IF 1 4区 工程技术
Insight Pub Date : 2025-04-08 DOI: 10.1002/inst.12529
Christopher Ritter, Jeren Browning, Peter Suyderhoud, Ross Hays, AnnMarie Marshall, Kevin Han, Taylor Ashbocker, John Darrington, Lee Nelson
{"title":"Versatile Test Reactor Open Digital Engineering Ecosystem","authors":"Christopher Ritter,&nbsp;Jeren Browning,&nbsp;Peter Suyderhoud,&nbsp;Ross Hays,&nbsp;AnnMarie Marshall,&nbsp;Kevin Han,&nbsp;Taylor Ashbocker,&nbsp;John Darrington,&nbsp;Lee Nelson","doi":"10.1002/inst.12529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/inst.12529","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Modern design of nuclear facilities represents unique challenges: enabling the design of complex advanced concepts, supporting geographically dispersed teams, and supporting first-of-a-kind system development. Errors made early in design can introduce silent errors. These errors can cascade causing unknown risk of complex engineering programs. The Versatile Test Reactor (VTR) Program uses digital-engineering principles for design, procurement, construction, and operation to reduce risk and improve efficiencies. Digital engineering is an integrated, model-based approach which connects proven digital tools such as building information management (BIM), project controls, and systems-engineering software tools into a cohesive environment.</p>\u0000 <p>The VTR team hypothesizes using these principals can lead to similar risk and cost reductions and schedule efficiencies observed in other engineering industries. This research investigates the use of a digital engineering ecosystem in the design of a 300-MWt sodium-cooled fast reactor. This ecosystem was deployed to over 200 engineers and used to deliver the conceptual design of the VTR. We conclude that initial results show significant reductions in user latency (1000x at peak use), the possibility of direct finite-element-analysis (FEA) integrations to computer-aided design (CAD) tools, and nuclear reactor system design descriptions (SDDs) that we can fully link throughout design in data-driven requirements-management software. These early results led to the VTR maintaining milestone performance during the COVID-19 pandemic.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":13956,"journal":{"name":"Insight","volume":"28 1","pages":"64-68"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143801769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Extending Formal Modeling for Resilient Systems Design 弹性系统设计的扩展形式化建模
IF 1 4区 工程技术
Insight Pub Date : 2025-04-08 DOI: 10.1002/inst.12525
Azad M. Madni, Michael Sievers, Ayesha Madni, Edwin Ordoukhanian, Parisa Pouya
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Systems Theory Principles and Complex Systems Engineering Concepts for Protection and Resilience in Critical Infrastructure: Lessons from the Nuclear Sector 关键基础设施保护和弹性的系统理论原理和复杂系统工程概念：来自核部门的经验教训
IF 1 4区 工程技术
Insight Pub Date : 2025-04-08 DOI: 10.1002/inst.12526
Adam D. Williams
{"title":"Systems Theory Principles and Complex Systems Engineering Concepts for Protection and Resilience in Critical Infrastructure: Lessons from the Nuclear Sector","authors":"Adam D. Williams","doi":"10.1002/inst.12526","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/inst.12526","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Part of the Presidential Policy Directive 21 (PPD-21) (PPD 2013) mandate includes evaluating safety, security, and safeguards (or nonproliferation) mechanisms traditionally implemented within the nuclear reactors, materials, and waste sector of critical infrastructure—including a complex, dynamic set of risks and threats within an all-hazards approach. In response, research out of Sandia National Laboratories (Sandia) explores the ability of systems theory principles (hierarchy and emergence) and complex systems engineering concepts (multidomain interdependence) to better understand and address these risks and threats. This Sandia research explores the safety, safeguards, and security risks of three different nuclear sector-related activities—spent nuclear fuel transportation, small modular reactors, and portable nuclear power reactors—to investigate the complex and dynamic risk related to the PPD-21-mandated all-hazards approach. This research showed that a systems-theoretic approach can better identify inter-dependencies, conflicts, gaps, and leverage points across traditional safety, security, and safeguards hazard mitigation strategies in the nuclear reactors, materials, and waste sector. As a result, mitigation strategies from applying systems theoretic principles and complex systems engineering concepts can be (1) designed to better capture interdependencies, (2) implemented to better align with real-world operational uncertainties, and (3) evaluated as a systems-level whole to better identify, characterize, and manage PPD-21's all hazards strategies.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":13956,"journal":{"name":"Insight","volume":"28 1","pages":"47-53"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143801861","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Harmonizing the Domains of Loss-Driven Systems Engineering 损失驱动系统工程领域的协调
IF 1 4区 工程技术
Insight Pub Date : 2025-04-08 DOI: 10.1002/inst.12528
Keith D. Willett
{"title":"Harmonizing the Domains of Loss-Driven Systems Engineering","authors":"Keith D. Willett","doi":"10.1002/inst.12528","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/inst.12528","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>System characteristics include <i>what it is</i> (structure, <b>state</b>), <i>what it does</i> (function, <b>behavior</b>), <i>where it resides</i> (<b>environment</b>, containing whole), <i>what it uses</i> (<b>resources</b>, energy source, raw material), <i>what it contains</i> (<b>content</b>), and <i>why it exists</i> (<b>value delivery</b>). An adversity produces a disturbance that can induce stress in a system so it may suffer some loss within one or more of these characteristics. Loss-driven systems engineering (LDSE) is an approach to address systemic loss in all forms helping ensure value delivery. LDSE domains include <i>reliability, sustainability, survivability, risk management, resistance, resilience, agility, safety</i>, and <i>security</i> which all work in harmony to avoid, withstand, and recover from loss. Traditional systems engineering treats these as separate domains with varying degrees of detail, rigor, and results. LDSE proposes consolidating these domains for a comprehensive, cohesive, and consistent approach to address system loss. This paper establishes interrelationships among the LDSE domains to harmonize role, fit, function, and impact among the domains focusing on sustaining value-delivery.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":13956,"journal":{"name":"Insight","volume":"28 1","pages":"59-63"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143801692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
How Infrastructure Can Become Reborn by Becoming Born Robust 基础设施如何通过变得强大而重生
IF 1 4区 工程技术
Insight Pub Date : 2025-04-08 DOI: 10.1002/inst.12522
Josh Sparber
{"title":"How Infrastructure Can Become Reborn by Becoming Born Robust","authors":"Josh Sparber","doi":"10.1002/inst.12522","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/inst.12522","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Systems Modeling Language (SysML) is a tool for guiding engineers in designing power grid circuits sufficiently robust to withstand known electromagnetic pulses (EMPs). Careful examination of existing data shows that EMPs, and sometimes geomagnetically induced currents (GICs) that accompany EMPs are truly a powerful threat to power grid survival. Systems engineers, employing SysML can isolate power grid failure susceptibilities and areas for necessary power grid design improvements with selected SysML packages defined as enclaves associated with risk. These enclaves can be decomposable into stereotyped components available for risk categorization, building simulation libraries, or follow–on tests. As an example, a stereotype Source, instantiated as a Photovoltaic (PV) Inverter, increasingly important in microgrid renewable energy, is linked to a high frequency alternating current (HFAC) microgrid risk enclave package. Simulation allows evaluation of SysML use cases with EMP Actors. Real world test, construction, and strategic grid readjustment can then segue quickly.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":13956,"journal":{"name":"Insight","volume":"28 1","pages":"18-22"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143801863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) in Complex System of Systems (SoS) Modeling and Simulation (M&S) Environments 复杂系统（so）建模与仿真（M&S）环境中的不确定性量化(UQ
IF 1 4区 工程技术
Insight Pub Date : 2024-12-21 DOI: 10.1002/inst.12511
Joseph Marvin, Thomas Whalen, Brad Morantz, Ray Deiotte, Robert K. Garrett Jr.
{"title":"Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) in Complex System of Systems (SoS) Modeling and Simulation (M&S) Environments","authors":"Joseph Marvin,&nbsp;Thomas Whalen,&nbsp;Brad Morantz,&nbsp;Ray Deiotte,&nbsp;Robert K. Garrett Jr.","doi":"10.1002/inst.12511","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/inst.12511","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Prevailing modeling and simulation (M&amp;S) techniques have struggled to provide meaningful quantitative results in M&amp;S of complex system of systems (SoSs) in the face of an environment filled with complex interacting uncertainties. This paper reports on systems thinking applied to “how” M&amp;S techniques should shift to allow a next generation of quantitative tools and techniques. The imperative is to provide quantitative performance results across the constituent interfaces in a modeled architecture. A five-step statistical and parametric algorithm tool that addresses uncertainty quantification (UQ) is presented. [Improving the utility of UQ data evaluation] A quantitative approach to managing complex uncertainties across modeled interfaces using graph theory is proposed. A future vision for SoS engineering (SoSE) that uses graph theory-based modeling is suggested to improve the utility of tools such as UQ is suggested.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":13956,"journal":{"name":"Insight","volume":"27 6","pages":"9-16"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142869034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Measuring the Uncertainty Impacts During the Systems Engineering Lifecycle 测量系统工程生命周期中的不确定性影响
IF 1 4区 工程技术
Insight Pub Date : 2024-12-21 DOI: 10.1002/inst.12512
David Flanigan, Jeffery Dixon
{"title":"Measuring the Uncertainty Impacts During the Systems Engineering Lifecycle","authors":"David Flanigan,&nbsp;Jeffery Dixon","doi":"10.1002/inst.12512","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/inst.12512","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Uncertainty is a large part of the systems engineering development process. Particularly absent is the quantification of uncertainty of the threat, operating environment, and friendly force factors at each step of this lifecycle. This paper will explore a methodology to quantify the amount of uncertainty and the interdependencies of the uncertainty factors during the development. Included for consideration are internal and external factors and their contribution to the overall system uncertainty. An illustrative example is provided to exercise this methodology.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":13956,"journal":{"name":"Insight","volume":"27 6","pages":"17-22"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142869035","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The ValXplore Method: Exploring Desirability, Feasibility and Viability of Business and System Design Under Uncertainty ValXplore方法：探索不确定性下业务和系统设计的合意性、可行性和可行性
IF 1 4区 工程技术
Insight Pub Date : 2024-12-21 DOI: 10.1002/inst.12513
Sonia Ben Hamida, Marija Jankovic, Alain Huet, Jean-Claude Bocquet
{"title":"The ValXplore Method: Exploring Desirability, Feasibility and Viability of Business and System Design Under Uncertainty","authors":"Sonia Ben Hamida,&nbsp;Marija Jankovic,&nbsp;Alain Huet,&nbsp;Jean-Claude Bocquet","doi":"10.1002/inst.12513","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/inst.12513","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>In early design stages, business developers and systems engineers deal with uncertainties on the business problem, in line with the company's strategy. Before designing the system, the business developers need to set the boundaries of the business problem: What are the values to deliver to which stakeholders? What are their preferences? What are the future trends or the evolution of the markets and the external context? These questions regarding the uncertainties on the definition of the problem may not have answers and need to be investigated to assess the value robustness of the possible design alternatives. The aim of this work is to support decision-making in business and system design thanks to a broad and rapid analysis of a large amount of business design alternatives under uncertainty. We introduce a decision-making support method, called ValXplore, based on visual analysis and data analytics to explore the uncertainties on and in the business problem. The method was tested and validated on an industrial case study to assess the benefits and limits of the semi-reusability of a launch vehicle. Both business developers and systems engineers can rapidly explore a broad space of alternatives to increase the value to the stakeholders, by performing sensitivity and uncertainty analyses.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":13956,"journal":{"name":"Insight","volume":"27 6","pages":"23-30"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142869036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Assessing the Impacts of Uncertainty Propagation to System Requirements by Evaluating Requirement Connectivity 通过评估需求连通性来评估不确定性传播对系统需求的影响
IF 1 4区 工程技术
Insight Pub Date : 2024-12-21 DOI: 10.1002/inst.12515
Alejandro Salado, Roshanak Nilchiani
{"title":"Assessing the Impacts of Uncertainty Propagation to System Requirements by Evaluating Requirement Connectivity","authors":"Alejandro Salado,&nbsp;Roshanak Nilchiani","doi":"10.1002/inst.12515","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/inst.12515","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Although theoretically independent, requirements within a decomposition level of a system architecture are not isolated elements. For an existing design, a change of a requirement may endanger or facilitate fulfillment of other requirements within the same level of the decomposition. The present research suggests a requirement connectivity metric to evaluate the potential consequences that changing a requirement may have on a system with respect to fulfillment of other requirements. A particular aspect of the present research is the assumption that connectivity accounts only for requirements within the same decomposition level of an architecture, not for those flowing up or down the decomposition. The metric is used to evaluate different cases in which requirements are changed due to triggering of uncertain events during a project life cycle.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":13956,"journal":{"name":"Insight","volume":"27 6","pages":"39-46"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142869031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF 来自总编辑
IF 1 4区 工程技术
Insight Pub Date : 2024-12-21 DOI: 10.1002/inst.12510
William Miller
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