Background
- Lecturer, Department of Applied Mathematics, Leeds, UK, 1987-1989
- Scientific Researcher, Health and Safety Executive, UK, 1990-1994
- Lecturer, 亚洲情色, UK, 1995 to 2015
- Senior Lecturer, 亚洲情色, UK, 2015 to 2022
- Reader in Systems Reliability, 亚洲情色, UK, 2022 to date
Key awards and accomplishments
- Kenneth T Whitby Award of the American Association for Aerosol Science
Outline of main research interests:
The prime focus of Sarah’s research is on the application and development of methods for predicting the unavailability and unreliability of complex and novel systems across various industries.
Recent research projects include:
- Resilience modelling
- Development of resilience methodology to model the performance of nuclear reactors. This approach considers not only the availability of systems but also their ability to recover in the presence of failure
- Application and enhancement of reliability methods to optimise system performance.
- Enhancing the performance of Automated guided vehicles by modelling their operation and maintenance using petri nets.
- Applying fault trees, petri nets, and bond graphs to improve the reliability of PEM fuel cells.
- Improving the performance of off shore wind turbines
- Risk and Reliability generation methods.
- Automated petri net model generation in order for more timely reliability assessment of systems to be undertaken in the design phase.
- Modelling Service Support System Reliability
- Reliability modelling of phased missions.
- Vehicle Safety and new hazard analysis technologies
Current teaching responsibilities
- TTA003 Fluid Mechanics
- TTA200 Risk Analysis
- TTB100 System Reliability Assessment
- TTD 100 Advanced Reliability, Availability and Maintenance
- TTP 210 Advanced Reliability, Availability and Maintainability
Current administrative responsibilities
- Part B Automotive Engineering Tutor
- Year Tutor - Auto Part C and D
Yan, R, Dunnett, S, Jackson, L (2023) , Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 238, 109475, ISSN: 0951-8320. DOI: .
Yan, RD, Dunnett, S, Andrews, J (2022) , Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 230, 108979, ISSN: 0951-8320. DOI: .
Yan, RD and Dunnett, S (2022) , Annals of Nuclear Energy, 176, 109282, ISSN: 0306-4549. DOI: .
Yan, RD, Dunnett, S, Jackson, L (2021) , Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 219, 108264, ISSN: 0951-8320. DOI: .
Vasilyev, A, Andrews, J, Dunnett, S, Jackson, L (2021) , Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 210, 107539, ISSN: 0951-8320. DOI: .
Yan, RD and Dunnett, S (2021) , Applied Sciences, 11(2), 574, DOI: .
Yan, RD, Dunnett, S, Jackson, L (2020) , Journal of Manufacturing Systems, 57, pp.19-30, ISSN: 0278-6125. DOI: .
External Collaborators:
Sarah has collaborated with various industries and public organisations including Rolls-Royce, BAE Systems, and Leicestershire police. Recent collaborators include:
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- Nottingham University
- Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research
- Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
External roles and appointments:
- PhD External Examiner: Nottingham University, Leeds University
- Reviewer for international journals including: Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Journal of Risk and Reliability Engineering, Quality and Reliability Engineering International.
- Programme committee member for international conferences including: IMA International Conference on Modelling in Industrial Maintenance and Reliability, European Safety and Reliability conference, Advances in Risk and Reliability Technology.