Risk Analysis in Engineering: Techniques, Tools, and Trends

By Mohammad Modarres

Book Overview

Developed as a guide for practitioners and as a textbook for upper-level courses in risk analysis, Risk Analysis in Engineering presents an engineering approach to probabilistic risk analysis (PRA). It particularly emphasizes methods for comprehensive PRA studies, including techniques for risk management. The book requires no prior knowledge of risk analysis and provides the necessary mathematical and engineering foundations. The text relies heavily on, but is not limited to, examples from the nuclear industry, because that is where PRA techniques were first developed. Since PRA provides a best-estimate approach, the author pays special attention to explaining uncertainty characterization.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1574447947
• ISBN13: 9781574447941
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 418 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.2" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

Good text for assessing risk.

I took the professional course associated with this text (from RiAC) and I high recommend it. If you have the need for understanding risk in your product, this is a well organized step-by-step process for accomplishing that. I also recommend the professional course. It solidifies the process in the text when you hear it being applied to real life projects from someone that has experience implementing it.