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A compendium of the investigative methods used to evaluate 21 of the more common types of failures and catastrophic events. It offers a discussion of the scientific method as it applies to forensic science and provides tips on organizing and writing an investigative report. It al...so discusses the applicable codes and standards of the profession.
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Contains case studies and investigative techniques. This book provides guidelines, methods, and tools for investigation and analysis. It addresses the planning and writing of reports, presenting evidence as an expert witness in traditional litigation, and the role of the forensic... engineer in methods of alternate dispute resolution.
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The aim of this book is to remove the mystique surrounding reliability engineering techniques. It provides practical guidance to the practising engineer who may have a general knowledge of the concepts of reliability, but who lacks a sufficiently precise understanding of the lang...uage concerned.
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The book is written for anyone who wants to design experiments, carry them out, and analyze the results. The authors provide a clear-cut, practical approach to designing experiments in any discipline and explain the general principles upon which such design is based. The reader t...hen can apply these theories to any specific problem in his own work.
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This text presents the elementary statistics of reliability analysis to an engineering audience. It starts by assuming no previous familiarity with statistics and contains many practical examples aimed at an engineering audience.
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This collection of papers is based on a series of international conferences which focused on the essence of quality, reliability and maintenance from a broad platform, embracing all relevant activity, industry research and education.
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Presents an engineering approach to probabilistic risk analysis (PRA). This work emphasizes methods for comprehensive PRA studies, including techniques for risk management.
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Explores public policy and organizational aspects of resilience and how they aid or inhibit preparation and restoration. This title addresses thoughts on ways to measure resilience and model systems to detect desirable, and undesirable, results. It examines how resilience plays o...ut in the living laboratory of real-world operations.
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Discusses the need for reliability, quality and safety as well as historical information, terms, and definitions. This book discusses relevant mathematics, evaluation models and methods, testing, management, and costing.
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In the resilience engineering approach to safety, failures and successes are seen as two different outcomes of the same underlying process. This collection deals with issues such as measurements and models, the use of procedures to ensure safety, the relation between resilience a...nd robustness, safety management, and the use of risk analysis.
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