Reliability and Safety Engineering

Reliability and safety are core issues that must be addressed throughout the life cycle of engineering systems. Reliability and Safety Engineering presents an overview of the basic concepts, together with simple and practical illustrations. The authors pr

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Series Editor Professor Hoang Pham Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 96 Frelinghuysen Road Piscataway, NJ 08854-8018 USA

Other titles in this series The Universal Generating Function in Reliability Analysis and Optimization Gregory Levitin

Recent Advances in Reliability and Quality in Design Hoang Pham

Warranty Management and Product Manufacture D.N.P. Murthy and Wallace R. Blischke

Product Reliability D.N.P. Murthy, Marvin Rausand and Trond Østerås

Maintenance Theory of Reliability Toshio Nakagawa

Mining Equipment Reliability, Maintainability, and Safety B.S. Dhillon

System Software Reliability Hoang Pham Reliability and Optimal Maintenance Hongzhou Wang and Hoang Pham

Advanced Reliability Models and Maintenance Policies Toshio Nakagawa

Applied Reliability and Quality B.S. Dhillon

Justifying the Dependability of Computerbased Systems Pierre-Jacques Courtois

Shock and Damage Models in Reliability Theory Toshio Nakagawa

Reliability and Risk Issues in Large Scale Safety-critical Digital Control Systems Poong Hyun Seong

Risk Management Terje Aven and Jan Erik Vinnem

Failure Rate Modeling for Reliability and Risk Maxim Finkelstein

Satisfying Safety Goals by Probabilistic Risk Assessment Hiromitsu Kumamoto Offshore Risk Assessment (2nd Edition) Jan Erik Vinnem The Maintenance Management Framework Adolfo Crespo Márquez Human Reliability and Error in Transportation Systems B.S. Dhillon Complex System Maintenance Handbook D.N.P. Murthy and Khairy A.H. Kobbacy

The Complexity of Proceduralized Tasks Jinkyun Park Risks in Technological Systems Göran Grimvall, Åke J. Holmgren, Per Jacobsson and Torbjörn Thedéen Maintenance for Industrial Systems Riccardo Manzini, Alberto Regattieri, Hoang Pham and Emilio Ferrari Mine Safety B.S. Dhillon The Complexity of Proceduralized Tasks Jinkyun Park

Ajit Kumar Verma ⋅ Srividya Ajit Durga Rao Karanki

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Ajit Kumar Verma, PhD Indian Institute of Technology Department of Electrical Engineering Powai 400076 Mumbai India [email protected]

Srividya Ajit, PhD Indian Institute of Technology Department of Civil Engineering Powai 400076 Mumbai India [email protected]

Durga Rao Karanki, PhD Paul Scherrer Institute Nuclear Energy and Safety Research Department 5232 Villigen PSI Switzerland [email protected]

ISSN 1614-7839 ISBN 978-1-84996-231-5 DOI 10.1007/978-1-84996-232-2

e-ISBN 978-1-84996-232-2

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Control Number: 2010932022 © Springer-Verlag London Limited 2010 Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of research or private study, or criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, this publication may only be reproduced, stored or transmitted, in any form or by any means, with the prior permission in writing of the publishers, or in the case of reprographic reproduction in accordance with t