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Risk Engineering -- Dealing with System Complexity and Engineering Dynamics |
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Understanding Failure Is Critical to Engineering Success |
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Risk Assessment -- Quantification of Potential Failures |
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4 | (3) |
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Risk Engineering -- Converting Risk into Opportunities |
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7 | (5) |
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Engineering -- A Profession of Managing Technical Risk |
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12 | (6) |
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16 | (2) |
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Risk Identification -- Understanding the Limits of Engineering Designs |
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18 | (28) |
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The Fall of Icarus -- Limits of Engineering Design |
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18 | (4) |
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Overload of Failures: Fracture and Its Mechanics |
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22 | (5) |
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Wear-Out Failures: Crack Initiation and Growth |
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27 | (6) |
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Environmental Impact: Temperature-Related Failure |
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33 | (5) |
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Software and Related ``Hard'' Failures |
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38 | (8) |
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45 | (1) |
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Risk Assessment -- Extending Murphy's Law |
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46 | (31) |
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Titanic: Connoisseurs of Engineering Failure |
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46 | (4) |
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Risk Assessment: ``How Likely It Is That A Thing Will Go Wrong'' |
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50 | (4) |
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Risk Assessment for Multiple Failure Modes |
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54 | (4) |
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Fault Tree Analysis: Deductive Risk Assessment |
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58 | (11) |
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Event Tree Analysis: Inductive Risk Assessment |
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69 | (3) |
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A Risk Example: The TMI Accident |
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72 | (1) |
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An International Risk Scale |
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73 | (4) |
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76 | (1) |
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Design for Risk Engineering -- The Art of War Against Failures |
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77 | (32) |
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Challenger: Challenging Engineering Design |
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77 | (4) |
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Goal Tree: Understand ``What'' and ``How'' |
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81 | (7) |
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FMEA: Failure Mode and Effect Analysis |
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88 | (9) |
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Redundancy and Fault Tolerance |
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97 | (9) |
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106 | (3) |
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Risk Acceptability -- Uncertainty in Perspective |
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109 | (23) |
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Uncertainty: Why Bridges Fall Down |
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109 | (3) |
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Risk Mitigation: How Buildings Stand Up |
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112 | (4) |
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From Safety Factor to Safety Index |
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116 | (6) |
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Converting Safety Index into Probability of Failure |
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122 | (2) |
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Quantitative Safety Goals: Probability vs. Consequence |
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124 | (4) |
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Risk and Benefit: Balancing the Engineering Equation |
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128 | (4) |
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130 | (2) |
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From Risk Engineering to Risk Management |
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132 | (17) |
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Panama Canal: Recognizing and Managing Risk |
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132 | (5) |
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Project Risk Assessment: Quantify Risk Triangle |
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137 | (5) |
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142 | (7) |
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147 | (2) |
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Cost Risk -- Interacting with Engineering Economy |
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149 | (28) |
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Engineering: The Art of Doing Well Inexpensively |
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149 | (4) |
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Taguchi's Robust Design: Minimize Total Cost |
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153 | (4) |
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Identify System Function and Noise Factors |
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157 | (2) |
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Identify Total Cost-Function and Control Factors |
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159 | (1) |
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Design Matrix of Experiments and Define Data Analysis |
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160 | (3) |
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Conduct Experiments and Data Analysis |
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163 | (4) |
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Prediction of Cost-Risk Under Selected Parameter Levels |
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167 | (1) |
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Life-Cycle Cost Management (LCCM) |
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168 | (9) |
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175 | (2) |
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Schedule Risk -- Identifying and Controlling Critical Paths |
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177 | (22) |
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Schedule: Deliver Engineering Products on Time |
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177 | (3) |
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Critical Path: Driver of Schedule Risk |
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180 | (3) |
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Find and Analyze Critical Path |
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183 | (3) |
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Schedule Risk for a Single Dominant Critical Path |
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186 | (6) |
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Schedule Risk for Multiple Critical Paths |
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192 | (7) |
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197 | (2) |
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Integrated Risk Management and Computer Simulation |
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199 | (26) |
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An Integrated View of Risk |
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199 | (2) |
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Integrated Risk Management |
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201 | (7) |
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Incorporating the Impact of Schedule Risk |
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208 | (4) |
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212 | (13) |
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222 | (3) |
| Appendix A Risk Assessment Software |
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225 | (10) |
| Appendix B Failure Mode and Effect Analysis Software |
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235 | (14) |
| Index |
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