Probabilistic Safety Assessment in the Chemical and Nuclear Industries
Probabilistic Safety Assessment in the Chemical and Nuclear Industries

Author: Ralph Fullwood

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 554

ISBN-13: 9780750672085

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In addition to presenting methodology, it shows how to identify accident vulnerability in the two industries. It reviews the causes of the two major nuclear accidents and many fatal accidents in the chemical industry, including Bhopal. Many examples of applications of PSA to both industries are presented."--BOOK JACKET. "Problems are included at the end of many chapters with answers at the back of the book."--Jacket.

Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management
Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management

Author: Cornelia Spitzer

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-01-04

Total Pages: 3803

ISBN-13: 0857294105

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A collection of papers presented at the PSAM 7 – ESREL ’04 conference in June 2004, reflecting a wide variety of disciplines, such as principles and theory of reliability and risk analysis, systems modelling and simulation, consequence assessment, human and organisational factors, structural reliability methods, software reliability and safety, insights and lessons from risk studies and management/decision making. This volume covers both well-established practices and open issues in these fields, identifying areas where maturity has been reached and those where more development is needed.

Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management
Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management

Author: Ali Mosleh

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 1998-08-26

Total Pages: 766

ISBN-13: 9783540762621

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These volumes contain the papers presented at the 4th International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management (PSAM 4), held in New York City in September 98. The conference provided a forum for the presentation of innovative methods and applications of risk-based approaches to improve the design and operation of technological systems and processes from the economic and safety points of view. Papers reflect progress made on methods and applications in such areas as modeling and analysis of complex systems, human and organizational performance assessment, software reliability, data collection and analysis, expert judgement modeling and use, identification and assessment of various types of uncertainty, risk-informed regulatory and operational decision making, and public perception of risk. A diverse range of disciplines are represented including aerospace, nuclear, fossil fuels, chemical systems, marine technology, transportation, information technology, medical systems, environment, and defense.

Literature review of methods for representing uncertainty
Literature review of methods for representing uncertainty

Author: Enrico Zio

Publisher: FonCSI

Published: 2013-03-01

Total Pages: 61

ISBN-13:

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This document provides a critical review of different frameworks for uncertainty analysis, in a risk analysis context : classical probabilistic analysis, imprecise probability (interval analysis), probability bound analysis, evidence theory, and possibility theory. The driver of the critical analysis is the decision-making process and the need to feed it with representative information derived from the risk assessment, to robustly support the decision. Technical details of the different frameworks are exposed only to the extent necessary to analyze and judge how these contribute to the communication of risk and the representation of the associated uncertainties to decision-makers, in the typical settings of high-consequence risk analysis of complex systems with limited knowledge on their behaviour.