Risk, economy and safety, failure minimisation and analysis
Subtitle: Failures '96
By: edited by R.K. Penny.
Contributors: Penny, R. K.
Publisher: A.A. Balkema
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Rotterdam, Netherlands
Language: eng
Number of pages: 377
Subjects: Structural failures -- Congresses.; Risk assessment -- Congresses.
Other titles: Failures '96.
Description: This volume contains papers presented at the second meeting of the FAILURES international symposia series held near Johannesburg, South Africa, 22-26 July, 1996. The series covers a number of issues critical to the safe and economical lives of high capital intensive systems, such as petrochemical installations, power generation and mining activities, amongst others. FAILURES '96 includes papers in the following areas: management of risk; failure analysis and minimisation; modern methods of plant surveillance; life assessment; together with case studies, applications of expert systems to problems of corrosion and other damaging processes affecting performance, data collection and analysis. Contributors are leading experts from various parts of the world, reporting up-to-date research and development results as well as their applications in major industries. The book will be of interest to risk and loss prevention engineers, inspectors, maintenance engineers, consultants, insurance assessors involved in risk management and others whose professional capacities are impacted upon by failures and all aspects of safety. It will be essential reading for owners of plant and others concerned with rational asset management.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and author index.