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Explosion Risk Modelling
Explosions on offshore installations have come very much into the focus in the last few years, because new knowledge has revealed that previous...
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Applicability of Risk Assessment to Ship**
This chapter considers the applicability of QRA and similar techniques to the design and operation of tanker based (purpose built or converted)...
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Fire Risk Modelling
It may be illustrative to consider the vast difference between two incidents in the North Sea that started in almost identical ways, within...
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Methodology for Quantified Risk Assessment
Although risk may be assessed in both a qualitative or quantitative way, this book only deals with quantitative methods. Thus qualitative risk...
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Rock Tunnels
As late as World War II and for a number of years thereafter, rock tunnels were “designed” by assigning the responsibility (and all risks) to the...
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Survivability Design
In general terms, survivability can be defined as the system’s capability to be continuously responsive to the needs of the users in spite of system...
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C
An electrical cable is one or more conductors surrounded by an insulating medium and a protective sheath. Such cables are used for the transmission...
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Marine Materials
There is a tendency to believe that only a few materials are suitable for the marine environment, and that marine materials constitute a special...
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Dynamic structural loading using a light gas gun
A light gas gun was used to dynamically load models of the wall sections typical of those used in the construction of buried structures. Scaling of...
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Arch Dam Design and Analysis
The Handbook of Dam Engineering 1 presented the subject of concrete dam design from fundamental definitions of terms through planning,...
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Internal Blast
Internal blast is the concussion effect of pressure rise caused by rapid combustion of fuel dispersed within a confined volume of air. Internal blast...