Risk Analysis and Management: Engineering Resilience

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Häring, Ivo (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2015.
• Θέματα: Engineering.; Natural disasters.; Statistics.; Quality control.; Reliability.; Industrial safety.; Civil engineering.; Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk.; Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences.; Natural Hazards.; Civil Engineering.

The book introduces basic risk concepts and then goes on to discuss risk management and analysis processes and steps. The main emphasis is on methods that fulfill the requirements of one or several risk management steps. The focus is on risk analysis methods including statistical-empirical analyses,...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction, overview and acknowledgements
• Introduction to risk analysis and risk management processes
• Introduction to database analysis of terroristic events
• More elaborate database analysis
• Event analysis: initial situation and hazard source
• Hazard propagation I: Explosions
• Hazard source characterization and propagation II: fragments
• Hazard propagation III: Free field blast and complex blast: empirical-analytical expressions and scaled experiments
• Mathematical basics for damage analysis
• Damage Analysis I: Probit functions and probability distributions
• Damage Analysis II: Selection of distributions and determination of parameters
• Damage analysis III: Presented surfaces
• Risk computation and visualization
• Simple examples of risk analysis
• Risk analysis in an example of harbor security.-  Risk acceptance criteria
• Further Reading: Risk assessment, evaluation and communication
• Mitigation measures.