An introduction to the basics of reliability and risk analysis

The necessity of expertise for tackling the complicated and multidisciplinary issues of safety and risk has slowly permeated into all engineering applications so that risk analysis and management has gained a relevant role, both as a tool in support of plant design and as an indispensable means for...

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Main Author Zio, Enrico
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Singapore ; Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific, ©2007.
SeriesSeries on quality, reliability & engineering statistics ; v. 13.
Subjects
Reliability (Engineering)
Risk assessment.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781621980315
1621980316
9789812707413
9812707417
9789812706393
9812706399
Physical Description1 online resource (xii, 221 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • 1 . Introduction; 2 . Basic concepts of safety and risk analysis; 3 . Methods for hazard identification; 4 . Basics of probability theory for applications to reliability and risk analysis; 5 . Reliability of simple systems; 6 . Availability and maintainability; 7 . Fault tree analysis; 8 . Event tree analysis; 9 . Estimation of reliability parameters from experimental data; Appendix A: Table of Standard Normal Cumulative Distribution; Appendix B: Table of Chi-square Cumulative Distribution.

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