Basics of reliability and risk analysis: worked out problems and solutions

Reliability and safety are fundamental attributes of any modern technologicalsystem. To achieve this, diverse types of protection barriers are placed as safeguards from the hazard posed by the operation of the system, within a multiple-barrier design concept. These barriers are intended to protect the system from failures of any of its elements, hardware, software, human and organizational. Correspondingly, the quantification of the probability of failure of thesystem and its protective barriers, through reliability and risk analyses, becomes a primary task in both the system design and operation phases. This exercise book serves as a complementary tool supporting the methodology concepts introduced in the books “An introduction to the basics of reliability and risk analysis” and “Computational methods for reliability and risk analysis” by Enrico Zio, in that it gives an opportunity to familiarize with the applications of classical and advanced techniques of reliability and risk analysis. This book is also available as a set with Computational Methods for Reliability and Risk Analysis and An Introduction to the Basics of Reliability and Risk Analysis. INDICE: Basic Concepts of Safety and Risk Analysis; Methods for Hazard Identification; Basics of Probability Theory for Applications to Reliability and Risk Analysis; Reliability of Simple Systems; Availability and Maintainability; Fault Tree Analysis; Event Tree Analysis; Estimation of Reliability Parameters from Experimental Data; Markov Chains.

• ISBN: 978-981-4355-03-2
• Editorial: World Scientific
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 220
• Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés