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| Preface | |
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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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| Risk Engineering - Converting Risk into Opportunities | |
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| Engineering - A Profession of Managing Technical Risk | |
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| References | |
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| Risk Identification - Understanding the Limits of Engineering Designs | |
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| The Fall of Icarus - Limits of Engineering Design | |
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| Overload of Failures: Fracture and Its Mechanics | |
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| Wear-Out Failures: Crack Initiation and Growth | |
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| Environmental Impact: Temperature-Related Failure | |
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| Software and Related "Hard" Failures | |
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| References | |
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| Risk Assessment - Extending Murphy's Law | |
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| Titanic: Connoisseurs of Engineering Failure | |
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| Risk Assessment: "How Likely It Is That A Thing Will Go Wrong" | |
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| Risk Assessment for Multiple Failure Modes | |
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| Fault Tree Analysis: Deductive Risk Assessment | |
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| Event Tree Analysis: Inductive Risk Assessment | |
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| A Risk Example: The TMI Accident | |
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| An International Risk Scale | |
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| References | |
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| Design for Risk Engineering - The Art of War Against Failures | |
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| Challenger: Challenging Engineering Design | |
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| Goal Tree: Understand "What" and "How" | |
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| FMEA: Failure Mode and Effect Analysis | |
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| Redundancy and Fault Tolerance | |
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| References | |
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| Risk Acceptability - Uncertainty in Perspective | |
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| Uncertainty: Why Bridges Fall Down | |
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| Risk Mitigation: How Buildings Stand Up | |
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| From Safety Factor to Safety Index | |
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| Converting Safety Index into Probability of Failure | |
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| Quantitative Safety Goals: Probability vs. Consequence | |
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| Risk and Benefit: Balancing the Engineering Equation | |
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| References | |
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| From Risk Engineering to Risk Management | |
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| Panama Canal: Recognizing and Managing Risk | |
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| Project Risk Assessment: Quantify Risk Triangle | |
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| Project Risk Control | |
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| References | |
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| Cost Risk - Interacting with Engineering Economy | |
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| Engineering: The Art of Doing Well Inexpensively | |
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| Taguchi's Robust Design: Minimize Total Cost | |
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| Step 1: Identify System Function and Noise Factors | |
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| Step 2: Identify Total Cost-Function and Control Factors | |
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| Step 3: Design Matrix of Experiments and Define Data Analysis | |
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| Step 4: Conduct Experiments and Data Analysis | |
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| Step 5: Prediction of Cost-Risk Under Selected Parameter Levels | |
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| Life-Cycle Cost Management (LCCM) | |
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| References | |
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| Schedule Risk - Identifying and Controlling Critical Paths | |
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| Schedule: Deliver Engineering Products on Time | |
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| Critical Path: Driver of Schedule Risk | |
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| Find and Analyze Critical Path | |
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| Schedule Risk for a Single Dominant Critical Path | |
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| Schedule Risk for Multiple Critical Paths | |
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| References | |
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| Integrated Risk Management and Computer Simulation | |
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| An Integrated View of Risk | |
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| Integrated Risk Management | |
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| Incorporating the Impact of Schedule Risk | |
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| Monte-Carlo Simulation | |
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| References | |
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| Risk Assessment Software | |
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| Failure Mode and Effect Analysis Software | |
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| Index | |