Preface |
Risk Engineering - Dealing with System Complexity and Engineering Dynamics / Chapter 1.: |
Understanding Failure Is Critical to Engineering Success / 1.1: |
Risk Assessment - Quantification of Potential Failures / 1.2: |
Risk Engineering - Converting Risk into Opportunities / 1.3: |
Engineering - A Profession of Managing Technical Risk / 1.4: |
References |
Risk Identification - Understanding the Limits of Engineering Designs / Chapter 2.: |
The Fall of Icarus - Limits of Engineering Design / 2.1: |
Overload of Failures: Fracture and Its Mechanics / 2.2: |
Wear-Out Failures: Crack Initiation and Growth / 2.3: |
Environmental Impact: Temperature-Related Failure / 2.4: |
Software and Related "Hard" Failures / 2.5: |
Risk Assessment - Extending Murphy's Law / Chapter 3.: |
Titanic: Connoisseurs of Engineering Failure / 3.1: |
Risk Assessment: "How Likely It Is That A Thing Will Go Wrong" / 3.2: |
Risk Assessment for Multiple Failure Modes / 3.3: |
Fault Tree Analysis: Deductive Risk Assessment / 3.4: |
Event Tree Analysis: Inductive Risk Assessment / 3.5: |
A Risk Example: The TMI Accident / 3.6: |
An International Risk Scale / 3.7: |
Design for Risk Engineering - The Art of War Against Failures / Chapter 4.: |
Challenger: Challenging Engineering Design / 4.1: |
Goal Tree: Understand "What" and "How" / 4.2: |
FMEA: Failure Mode and Effect Analysis / 4.3: |
Redundancy and Fault Tolerance / 4.4: |
Risk Acceptability - Uncertainty in Perspective / 4.5: |
Uncertainty: Why Bridges Fall Down / 5.1: |
Risk Mitigation: How Buildings Stand Up / 5.2: |
From Safety Factor to Safety Index / 5.3: |
Converting Safety Index into Probability of Failure / 5.4: |
Quantitative Safety Goals: Probability vs. Consequence / 5.5: |
Risk and Benefit: Balancing the Engineering Equation / 5.6: |
From Risk Engineering to Risk Management / Chapter 6.: |
Panama Canal: Recognizing and Managing Risk / 6.1: |
Project Risk Assessment: Quantify Risk Triangle / 6.2: |
Project Risk Control / 6.3: |
Cost Risk - Interacting with Engineering Economy / Chapter 7.: |
Engineering: The Art of Doing Well Inexpensively / 7.1: |
Taguchi's Robust Design: Minimize Total Cost / 7.2: |
Step 1: Identify System Function and Noise Factors / 7.3: |
Step 2: Identify Total Cost-Function and Control Factors / 7.4: |
Step 3: Design Matrix of Experiments and Define Data Analysis / 7.5: |
Step 4: Conduct Experiments and Data Analysis / 7.6: |
Step 5: Prediction of Cost-Risk Under Selected Parameter Levels / 7.7: |
Life-Cycle Cost Management (LCCM) / 7.8: |
Schedule Risk - Identifying and Controlling Critical Paths / Chapter 8.: |
Schedule: Deliver Engineering Products on Time / 8.1: |
Critical Path: Driver of Schedule Risk / 8.2: |
Find and Analyze Critical Path / 8.3: |
Schedule Risk for a Single Dominant Critical Path / 8.4: |
Schedule Risk for Multiple Critical Paths / 8.5: |
Integrated Risk Management and Computer Simulation / Chapter 9.: |
An Integrated View of Risk / 9.1: |
Integrated Risk Management / 9.2: |
Incorporating the Impact of Schedule Risk / 9.3: |
Monte-Carlo Simulation / 9.4: |
Risk Assessment Software / Appendix A: |
Failure Mode and Effect Analysis Software / Appendix B: |
Index |
Preface |
Risk Engineering - Dealing with System Complexity and Engineering Dynamics / Chapter 1.: |
Understanding Failure Is Critical to Engineering Success / 1.1: |
Risk Assessment - Quantification of Potential Failures / 1.2: |
Risk Engineering - Converting Risk into Opportunities / 1.3: |
Engineering - A Profession of Managing Technical Risk / 1.4: |