Advances in Safety, Reliability and Risk Management

Advances in Safety, Reliability and Risk Management
Author: Christophe Berenguer
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 538
Release: 2011-08-31
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0203135105

Covering a wide range of topics on safety, reliability and risk management, the present publication will be of interest to academics and professionals working in a wide range of scientific, industrial and governmental sectors, including: Aeronautics and Aerospace; Chemical and Process Industry; Civil Engineering; Critical Infrastructures; Energy; Information Technology and Telecommunications; Land Transportation; Manufacturing; Maritime Transportation; Mechanical Engineering; Natural Hazards; Nuclear Industry; Offshore Industry; Policy Making and Public Planning.

NUREG/CR.

NUREG/CR.
Author: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Publisher:
Total Pages: 16
Release: 1977
Genre: Nuclear energy
ISBN:

Reliability, Safety and Hazard Assessment for Risk-Based Technologies

Reliability, Safety and Hazard Assessment for Risk-Based Technologies
Author: Prabhakar V. Varde
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 988
Release: 2019-08-30
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9811390088

This volume presents selected papers from the International Conference on Reliability, Safety, and Hazard. It presents the latest developments in reliability engineering and probabilistic safety assessment, and brings together contributions from a diverse international community and covers all aspects of safety, reliability, and hazard assessment across a host of interdisciplinary applications. This book will be of interest to researchers in both academia and the industry.

ICRRM 2019 – System Reliability, Quality Control, Safety, Maintenance and Management

ICRRM 2019 – System Reliability, Quality Control, Safety, Maintenance and Management
Author: Vinit Kumar Gunjan
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2019-06-13
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9811385076

Content of this proceedings discusses emerging trends in structural reliability, safety and disaster management, covering topics like total quality management, risk maintenance and design for reliability. Some papers also address chemical process reliability, reliability analysis and engineering applications in chemical process equipment systems and includes a chapter on reliability evaluation models of chemical systems. Accepted papers from 2019 International Conference on Reliability, Risk Maintenance and Engineering Management (ICRRM 2019) are part of this conference proceeding. It offers useful insights to road safety engineers, disaster management professionals involved in product design and probabilistic methods in manufacturing systems.

Improving Product Reliability

Improving Product Reliability
Author: Mark A. Levin
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2003-05-07
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780470854495

The design and manufacture of reliable products is a major challenge for engineers and managers. This book arms technical managers and engineers with the tools to compete effectively through the design and production of reliable technology products.

Flexibility in Engineering Design

Flexibility in Engineering Design
Author: Richard De Neufville
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2011-08-12
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0262297337

A guide to using the power of design flexibility to improve the performance of complex technological projects, for designers, managers, users, and analysts. Project teams can improve results by recognizing that the future is inevitably uncertain and that by creating flexible designs they can adapt to eventualities. This approach enables them to take advantage of new opportunities and avoid harmful losses. Designers of complex, long-lasting projects—such as communication networks, power plants, or hospitals—must learn to abandon fixed specifications and narrow forecasts. They need to avoid the “flaw of averages,” the conceptual pitfall that traps so many designs in underperformance. Failure to allow for changing circumstances risks leaving significant value untapped. This book is a guide for creating and implementing value-enhancing flexibility in design. It will be an essential resource for all participants in the development and operation of technological systems: designers, managers, financial analysts, investors, regulators, and academics. The book provides a high-level overview of why flexibility in design is needed to deliver significantly increased value. It describes in detail methods to identify, select, and implement useful flexibility. The book is unique in that it explicitly recognizes that future outcomes are uncertain. It thus presents forecasting, analysis, and evaluation tools especially suited to this reality. Appendixes provide expanded explanations of concepts and analytic tools.

Reliability-based Structural Design

Reliability-based Structural Design
Author: Seung-Kyum Choi
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2006-11-15
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1846284457

This book provides readers with an understanding of the fundamentals and applications of structural reliability, stochastic finite element method, reliability analysis via stochastic expansion, and optimization under uncertainty. It examines the use of stochastic expansions, including polynomial chaos expansion and Karhunen-Loeve expansion for the reliability analysis of practical engineering problems.

Delay Differential Equations

Delay Differential Equations
Author: Balakumar Balachandran
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2009-04-05
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0387855955

Delay Differential Equations: Recent Advances and New Directions cohesively presents contributions from leading experts on the theory and applications of functional and delay differential equations (DDEs). Students and researchers will benefit from a unique focus on theory, symbolic, and numerical methods, which illustrate how the concepts described can be applied to practical systems ranging from automotive engines to remote control over the Internet. Comprehensive coverage of recent advances, analytical contributions, computational techniques, and illustrative examples of the application of current results drawn from biology, physics, mechanics, and control theory. Students, engineers and researchers from various scientific fields will find Delay Differential Equations: Recent Advances and New Directions a valuable reference.

Active Fault Tolerant Control Systems

Active Fault Tolerant Control Systems
Author: Mufeed Mahmoud
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2003-02-13
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3540003185

Modern technological systems rely on sophisticated control functions to meet increased performance requirements. For such systems, Fault Tolerant Control Systems (FTCS) need to be developed. Active FTCS are dependent on a Fault Detection and Identification (FDI) process to monitor system performance and to detect and isolate faults in the systems. The main objective of this book is to study and to validate some important issues in real-time Active FTCS by means of theoretical analysis and simulation. Several models are presented to achieve this objective, taking into consideration practical aspects of the system to be controlled, performance deterioration in FDI algorithms, and limitations in reconfigurable control laws.