From the President′s desk

The Society for Reliability and Safety is striving to meet its objective of knowledge sharing and bringing together leading academics, industry, and research in the field of Reliability, Safety , Security , Risk and Maintenance in Engineering systems and to establish and strengthen the link between academics and industry, to promote of research results in practice. This is the sixth issue of this newsletter, which announces the launch of the International Journal of Life Cycle Reliability and Safety Engineering. This journal provides a medium to researchers and academicians to contribute articles based on their work. Society of Reliability & Safety is thus quarterly publishing a journal along with this newsletter. This issue contains four articles. The first one deals with the passive system reliability assessment of nuclear power plants. Issues related to evaluation of passive system reliability have been discussed. An article discusses the maintenance issues that need attention in the Defence Department, and type of problems faced by the maintainers on field. The research work presents a method to model the failure and wear/deterioration processes. A brief note on two workshops are present; ) An International Workshop on 'New Horizons in Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics and Safety'. Developments and future challenges in different areas related to nuclear reactor thermal hydraulics especially on severe accident, emergency preparedness, and safety were discussed. Dr. S. K. Gupta 1) ' ISEUSAM 2012' was to facilitate the discussion for a better understanding and management of uncertainty and risk. 2 Quarterly publication from Society for Reliability and Safety [Reg. No. 3141/2010/G.B.B.S.D.]