Overview
- First single volume book to describe how to satisfy safety goals by modern reliability engineering
- Focuses on the quantitative aspects of the international standards using a methodological approach
- Case studies illustrate methodologies presented
- Author has 30 years of experience in the field and has already co-authored 4 books in the area of risk assessment
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Series in Reliability Engineering (RELIABILITY)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Safety is an important issue today. International standards such as ISO and IEC advocated goal-based procedures of designing safer systems. This assumes safety goals are explicitly established.
This book is a methodological approach to the goal-based safety design procedure that will soon be an international requirement. Case studies illustrate the methodologies presented. The book: presents accident statistics and safety goals; describes abnormal event enumeration for the target system; develops risk reduction mechanisms; discusses probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) models; presents conventional materials for basic event quantification; shows how to calculate safety criteria from the PRA models; evaluates uncertainties of point estimates of safety criteria; and considers how external event quantification can expand the scope of PRA.
This book will interest senior undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers in this field, and reliability engineers, industry practitioners and regulatory authorities.
Reviews
"There are many books available in the literature on risk and probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) but the reviewer would like to place this book among the best" (Krisnha B. Misra, International Journal of Performability Engineering, Vol. 4, (3), 2008)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Professor Hiromitsu Kumamoto is a Professor in the Graduate School of Informatics at Kyoto University. His research interests include Human Roles in Systems, Human-Machine Systems, Intelligent Transport Systems, and System Reliability and Safety Assessment.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Satisfying Safety Goals by Probabilistic Risk Assessment
Authors: Hiromitsu Kumamoto
Series Title: Springer Series in Reliability Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-682-7
Publisher: Springer London
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-84628-681-0Published: 13 March 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-84996-641-2Published: 28 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-84628-682-7Published: 31 May 2007
Series ISSN: 1614-7839
Series E-ISSN: 2196-999X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 253
Topics: Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk, Engineering, general, Business and Management, general, Computational Intelligence, Mechanical Engineering, Electrochemistry