Fault tree analysis (FTA) is one of the most popular failure analysis techniques that reveal
the potential pathways leading to systems or components failure. It has been widely …

Abstract System safety, reliability and risk analysis are important tasks that are performed
throughout the system life-cycle to ensure the dependability of safety-critical systems …

Modern systems are operating under dynamic environments and the components therein
often exhibit positively correlated lifetimes. Moreover, due to various practical reasons such …

Risk assessment must evolve for addressing the existing and future challenges, and
considering the new systems and innovations that have already arrived in our lives and that …

The paper reviews past progress in the development of methods and models for process
safety and risk management and highlights the present research trends; also it outlines the …

Accident causation models mainly answer the following two questions:(ⅰ) why does an
accident occur, and (ⅱ) how does it occur? These models are the most important theoretical …

The objective of this review is to analyse the progress of Risk Assessment during the last
decades and to offer an overview on its recent advancements and possible future direction …

Maritime transportation poses risks regarding possible accidents resulting in damage to
vessels, crew members and to the ecosystem. The safe navigation of ships, especially in the …

There are many factors leading to construction safety accident. The rule presented under the
influence of these factors should be a statistical random rule. To reveal those random rules …

Submarine pipeline is the major transportation way of subsea oil and gas production. Due to
the internal and external factor, the failure probability of submarine pipeline is increasing …