Risk assessment and management of offshore structures

✍ Scribed by Robert G Bea

• Book ID: 105360999
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 102 KB
• Volume: 3
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1365-0556
• DOI: 10.1002/pse.68

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

During the past 30 years, reliability‐based risk assessment and management processes have been developed and applied in assessing and maintaining the integrity of a worldwide infrastructure of offshore structure systems. These systems are characterized as a combination of structures, hardware/equipment, operating personnel, organizations, environments and the interfaces between these components. Background on current and future trends in development of comprehensive programs to help improve the quality and reliability of offshore structure systems are outlined. The importance and characteristics of human and organizational factors are discussed. A combination of proactive, reactive and interactive approaches have been developed that employ three strategies to achieve desirable quality and reliability: reduce likelihood of malfunctions, increase detection and correction of malfunctions, and decrease the effects and consequences of malfunctions. System robustness and fail‐safe design are key elements of the third strategy.