Quality Control category: 855 books
GSN - The Goal Structuring Notation
A Structured Approach to Presenting Arguments
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Goal Structuring Notation (GSN) is becoming increasing popular; practitioners use it in the railway, air traffic management and nuclear industries, amongst others. Originally developed to present safety assurance arguments, GSN need not be restricted to safety assurances only; in principle, you...
by Francine Amon, Jonatan Gehandler, Selim Stahl
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
This book investigates the feasibility of developing a tool that enables fire departments to estimate the value of their services to a community in terms of environmental and financial impact. This book provides a summary of this effort, which resulted in development of a prototype tool for fire department...
by Richard B. Campbell, David A. Dini
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
This brief presents information on occupational injuries from electric shock and arc flash events through a review of literature, electrical incident data, and similar sources. It includes pertinent information such as the nature of the incident, adherence to safety requirements, use of appropriate...
by Nathan White, Michael Delichatsios
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
This SpringerBrief presents strategies for fire mitigation based on combustible assembly systems of exterior walls. Providing background information on common exterior wall systems, the mechanisms of fire spread, and case studies, it examines the difficulties in controlling a fire with several materials...
by Kenneth W. Dungan
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
This brief addresses the contextual definition of resilience, explains the existing resiliency frameworks developed by Federal Agencies, and emphasizes the risk informed approach to applying resiliency concepts to National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) documents.
In an effort to assess...
Advances in Health and Environment Safety
Select Proceedings of HSFEA 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
This book comprises selected papers on advances in the field of health and environment safety that were presented at the leading international conference on advances in the field of health, safety, fire, environment, allied sciences and engineering (HSFEA 2016). The book focuses on the latest developments...
Advances in Acoustic Emission Technology
Proceedings of the World Conference on Acoustic Emission–2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
This volume collects the papers from the 2013 World Conference on Acoustic Emission in Shanghai. The latest research and applications of Acoustic Emission (AE) are explored, with particular emphasis on detecting and processing of AE signals, development of AE instrument and testing standards, AE...
Failure Analysis
A Practical Guide for Manufacturers of Electronic Components and Systems
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
Failure analysis is the preferred method to investigate product or process reliability and to ensure optimum performance of electrical components and systems. The physics-of-failure approach is the only internationally accepted solution for continuously improving the reliability of materials, devices...
Risk Management Technologies
With Logic and Probabilistic Models
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
This book presents intellectual, innovative, information technologies (I3-technologies) based on logical and probabilistic (LP) risk models. The technologies presented here consider such models for structurally complex systems and processes with logical links and with random events in economics and...
Safety of VVER-440 Reactors
Barriers Against Fission Products Release
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2011
Safety of VVER-440 Reactors endeavours to promote an increase in the safety of VVER-440 nuclear reactors via the improvement of fission products limitation systems and the implementation of special non-destructive spectroscopic methods for materials testing. All theoretical and experimental studies...
Critical Infrastructures, Key Resources, Key Assets
Risk, Vulnerability, Resilience, Fragility, and Perception Governance
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2017
In the face of increasing failures, comments attributed to Albert Einstein loom large: “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” There is a pervasive feeling that any attempt to make sense of the current terrain of complex systems must involve thinking...
Mine Safety
A Modern Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2010
Mine Safety combines detailed information on safety in mining with methods and mathematics that can be used to preserve human life.
By compiling various recent research results and data into one volume, Mine Safety eliminates the need to consult many diverse sources in order to obtain vital...
Ultrasonic Inspection Technology Development and Search Unit Design
Examples of Practical Applications
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Ultrasonic testing is a relatively new branch of science and industry. The development of ultrasonic testing started in the late 1920s. At the beginning, the fundamentals of this method were borrowed from basic physics, geometrical and wave optics, acoustics and seismology. Later it became clear that...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2014
This book presents physical understanding, modeling and simulation, on-chip characterization, layout solutions, and design techniques that are effective to enhance the reliability of various circuit units. The authors provide readers with techniques for state of the art and future technologies,...