Reliability & Risk Assessment

Fully updated and revised with more practical emphasis and more extensive use of case studies, this edition provides a comprehensive description of the main probabilistic methods employed in reliability and risk assessment, particularly fault tree analysis and failure mode and effective analysis and their derivatives. Self-contained, each chapter focuses on a single subject or method and illustrates it with worked examples. The final chapter features four major case studies from recent projects to show how the methods have been applied to identity and quantify the risk and reliability characteristics against specific performance requirements. Focusing on the risk and reliability assessment of process plants, this book serves as a comprehensive reference to powerful analysis techniques for design, operation, and regulatory engineers involved directly with the safety and availability assessment of potentially hazardous process plants. It also serves as a text for undergraduate, graduate, and in-company courses and training.Andrews, J. D. is the author of 'Reliability & Risk Assessment', published 2002 under ISBN 9780791801833 and ISBN 0791801837.