Safety and Risk Modeling and Its Applications

✍ Scribed by Krzysztof Kołowrocki (auth.), Hoang Pham (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 436
• Series: Springer Series in Reliability Engineering
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Safety and Risk Modeling presents the latest theories and methods of safety and risk with an emphasis on safety and risk in modeling. It covers applications in several areas including transportations and security risk assessments, as well as applications related to current topics in safety and risk.

Safety and Risk Modeling is a valuable resource for understanding the latest developments in both qualitative and quantitative methods of safety and risk analysis and their applications in operating environments. Each chapter has been written by active researchers or experienced practitioners to bridge the gap between theory and practice and to trigger new research challenges in safety and risk. Topics include:

• safety engineering,
• system maintenance,
• safety in design,
• failure analysis, and
• risk concept and modelling.

Postgraduate students, researchers, and practitioners in many fields of engineering, operations research, management, and statistics will find Safety and Risk Modeling a state-of-the-art survey of reliability and quality in design and practice.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Reliability Modelling of Complex Systems....Pages 3-53
The Price of Safety and Economic Reliability....Pages 55-76
Reliability Analysis of Structures Under Hybrid Uncertainty....Pages 77-100
Maintenance and Warranty Concepts....Pages 101-122
Front Matter....Pages 123-123
Risk Analysis....Pages 125-149
Risk Importance Measures....Pages 151-196
Dependent Competing-Risk Degradation Systems....Pages 197-218
Risk and Design Management Based on Failure Mode....Pages 219-239
Front Matter....Pages 241-241
Risk-Based Resource Allocation Models for Aviation Security....Pages 243-261
Complex Risk and Uncertainty Modeling for Emergent Aviation Systems: An Application....Pages 263-298
Sensor Management Problems of Nuclear Detection....Pages 299-323
Risk-Informed Decision Making in Nuclear Power Plants....Pages 325-363
Risk, Reliability, Safety, and Testing Case Study....Pages 365-395
Human Grasp Prediction and Analysis....Pages 397-424
Back Matter....Pages 425-429

✦ Subjects

Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk; Simulation and Modeling; Engineering Design