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This is the first textbook to address quantified risk assessment (QRA) as specifically applied to offshore installations and operations. These minimalistic installations with no helideck and very limited safety systems will require a new approach to risk assessment and emergency planning, especially during manned periods involving W2W vessels.

As the first part of the two-volume updated and expanded fourth edition, it adds a new focus on the EU Offshore Safety Directive, and discusses the new perspective on risk from the Norwegian Petroleum Safety Authority, followed by new and updated international standards.

Applications in Maintenance, Reliability and Design provides a complete overview of all relevant failure mechanisms, ranging from mechanical failures like fatigue and creep to corrosion and electric failures.

The book is intended for senior undergraduate and postgraduate students in related engineering and management programs such as mechanical engineering, manufacturing engineering, industrial engineering and engineering management programs, as well as for researchers and engineers in the quality and reliability fields.

Focusing on the theory and applications of point processes, Point Processes for Reliability Analysis naturally combines classical results on the basic and advanced properties of point processes with recent theoretical findings of the authors.

This book surveys the recent development of maintenance theory, advanced maintenance techniques with shock and damage models, and their applications in computer systems dealing with efficiency problems.

This book compiles and critically discusses modern engineering system degradation models and their impact on engineering decisions. The concepts and models presented have applications in a large variety of engineering fields such as Civil, Environmental, Industrial, Electrical and Mechanical engineering.

This book introduces data-driven remaining useful life prognosis techniques, and shows how to utilize the condition monitoring data to predict the remaining useful life of stochastic degrading systems and to schedule maintenance and logistics plans.

This book describes the prerequisites for the placing on themarket and the safe use of machinery in compliance with the relevant EUDirectives, especially the Machinery Directive 2006/42.

This book is useful for advanced undergraduate and post graduate students in nuclear engineering, aerospace engineering, industrial engineering, reliability and safety engineering, systems engineering and applied probability and statistics.

Exploring random maintenance models, this book provides an introduction to the implementation of random maintenance, and it is one of the first books to be written on this subject.

Accessible both to novices and expert technicians, this study considers the role of, and the potential issues arising from, human factors in power plant design, construction, and maintenance. It will help to strengthen procedures and reduce costly mistakes.

This book gives a detailed overview of all aspects of quantified risk assessment (QRA) as applied specifically to offshore installations and operations. It also identifies weaknesses and areas that need further development.

This book illustrates the Monte Carlo simulation method and its application to reliability and system engineering. Conveys a sound understanding of of the fundamentals of Monte Carlo sampling and simulation and its application for realistic system modeling.

This book takes a practical approach to maintenance management programs for companies involved in network infrastructure such as distribution of gas, electricity and telecommunications. Case studies illustrate framework design, performance evaluation and more.

Here is a thorough explanation of advanced methods for analyzing fixed offshore steel structures using 3D beam finite elements under random wave and earthquake loadings, presenting calculation of wave loading on structural members, and more.

Warranty data is collected during the processing of claims under warranty. Properly analyzing this data, we can better estimate product reliability and the costs of warranty. This book unifies the range of literature on warranty data collection and analysis.

This detailed book explores reliability, availability and safety modeling of networked computer-based systems used in life-critical applications such as avionics, nuclear power plants, automobiles and chemical process industries.

This book offers a thorough understanding of the applications of finite element method (FEM) to reliability modeling and an appreciation of the strengths and weaknesses of various numerical models for interconnect reliability.

Stochastic Processes covers useful reliability studies and applications, while providing an overview of stochastic processes. Examples from reliability models illustrate how to apply stochastic processes.

This book presents an alternative approach and companion to the GUM Instrumentation Standard. Coverage provides an overview of the current standard, then pinpoints and constructively resolves its limitations.

This book offers accurate, efficient methods for solving stochastic equations, with a focus on formulating equations that apply to problems in engineering and applied sciences. Numerous examples illustrate essential theoretical concepts, models and methods.

This volume focuses on the latest statistical methods used to estimate the performance measures of reliability systems that operate under different conditions. It includes numerous techniques such as nonparametric estimation and lifetime regression analysis.

This book offers in-depth discussion of game-theoretic modeling which may be applied to improve cross-company prevention and safety management in chemical industrial parks. Presents useful game-theoretic decision models as strategic decision-making tools.

Focusing on shocks modelling, burn-in and heterogeneous populations, this book naturally combines these three topics in the unified stochastic framework and presents numerous practical examples that illustrate recent theoretical findings of the authors.

This book presents original and practical approaches to the reliability determination of fatigue and fracture behaviour. Incorporating probability, statistics and other related areas, it will be a valuable aid to a wide spectrum of engineers and researchers.

Software Reliability Assessment with OR Applications provides a comprehensive guide to software reliability measurement, prediction, and control. Readers will find solutions to decision-making problems that software developers and engineers often face.